The origins of the Masque project lay in a chance encounter, a meeting in a pub with a dodgy reputation and the slow accumulation of rumour and hearsay
about a nest of vampires in Middlesbrough. Two poets undertook a painstaking process of detection work, carrying out interviews, cross checking
enquiries, following leads from the archives, through the streets of Whitby and into cemeteries after dark. The word spread and soon enough they came
upon us with their own guarded questions and their cameras.

This collection of poems and images is based on their investigations and a series of video interviews with various undead inhabitants of the Tees Valley.