Highgate Cemetery - Fictional References

Fictional References

• In Bram Stoker's Gothic novel Dracula, the Count's young victim, Lucy Westenra, is buried in "Kingstead Cemetery" (a fictionalised Highgate), where she later preys on young children as a vampire.
• The first chapter of the third Young Bond novel by Charlie Higson features the kidnapping of an Eton College professor in the cemetery grounds.
• Footage of Highgate appears in numerous British horror films, including Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), Tales from the Crypt (1972) and From Beyond the Grave (1974).
• The 1977 BBC TV episode, "Count Dracula" for the series Great Performances, was filmed in Highgate's West cemetery. It was directed by Philip Saville and featured Louis Jourdan as Count Dracula.
• In the BBC TV series Porridge, Fletcher claims that his eldest daughter, Ingrid, was conceived on Karl Marx's tomb.
• Herbert Smith is shadowed through Highgate Cemetery in Visibility, a murder/espionage/thriller by Boris Starling.
• Tracy Chevalier's novel Falling Angels is set in and around Highgate Cemetery.
• Highgate Cemetery is the sixth level of the Nightmare Creatures game.
• Fred Vargas´s novel Un lieu incertain (English title: An Uncertain Place) starts in Highgate Cemetery.
• Barbara Hambly's vampire novel, Those Who Hunt The Night, has the main characters visiting Highgate at one point to examine the remains of a vampire who had taken over an abandoned tomb.
• Stated in the acknowlegments as the inspiration for the setting of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book.
• Audrey Niffenegger's book Her Fearful Symmetry is set in and around Highgate Cemetery, and she acted as a tour guide there while researching the book.
• In the story "The Berkenheim", soon to be made into a feature film, the opening and closing scenes are at Highgate Cemetery.
• In Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment, Morgan Delt and his mum visit the grave of Karl Marx
• Part of a scene from the 2009 film Dorian Gray is filmed in the Circle of Lebanon
• The lead characters in Mike Leigh's film High Hopes (1988) visit Highgate Cemetery to pay homage to Karl Marx.
• In the fiction book Double or Nothing (2007), a part of the Young Bond series, James is in the cemetery where Ludwig and Wolfgang Smith plan to kill him.
• In the fiction book Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow, projectors (beamers) are set up in the trees to show films on a wall. The movies are cobbled together by the main character, Trent McCauley on his computer by reassembling footage from popular films he downloads from the net.