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I was looking through the Amazon online shopping site recently when I came across this review of herr Mannys novel 'The Vampire Hunters Handbook' I've cut and pasted it in its entirety as you can see and I haven't made any alterations or deletions.



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5.0 out of 5 stars Does exactly what it says on the tin..., 24 Dec 2006
By Veritas - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Vampire Hunter's Handbook: A Concise Vamprological Guide (Paperback)
This book is titled "Handbook" - on that basis one would expect it to be a practical guide to vampirology and the shadowy world of vampire hunters. And that's exactly what The Vampire Hunter's Handbook is, living up to its title with each and every page. Chapters discuss blood lust, tradition, antidotes, exorcisms, exhumations, invocations, garlic, mirrors, the Kirklees vampire case, the Highgate Vampire case, vampiroid syndrome, the occult and so much more. There are also some revealing full-page photographs.

Not only does this Handbook explain the methodology of real vampire hunters, past and present, but also those dabbling amateurs who raise a chuckle but never a vampire as they pursue publicity at almost any cost. One in particular ended up with a five years' prison sentence after scaling a cemetery wall to conjure up a vampire during a bizarre occult ceremony.

There is also a lot of interesting information about the conspiracy to stifle serious discussion about real vampires. Academics, authors, journalists and those with an interest in keeping us in "everlasting ignorance" about vampires come in for criticism with evidence of their seemingly intentional misrepresentation of the facts unearthed by such luminaries as Montague Summers and the book's author, Sean Manchester.

Both these gentleman took Holy Orders in the same independent Catholic Church and have become leading authorities on all things vampiric on a universal scale. Summers has been dead for almost six decades, but the book's author still appears regularly in serious film documentaries about the supernatural and exorcism.

I would heartily recommend The Vampire Hunter's Handbook, not just to those who find vampires fascinating but to anyone with an interest in Sean Manchester, the book's author, who is frequently misunderstood in a world which no longer believes in what he has spent his life pursuing, researching, discussing and writing about. Truly a man born out of his time!
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What a glowing tribute to the book and to the man....
The only problem is that (as I'm sure you are all fully aware) this whole pile of fawning garbage was written by one Veritas, aka Sean Manchester.

I particularly like the line "truly a man born out of his time"..... out of his mind more like. I notice he's even managed to fit in a pop at David (again). Is it just be just me or does his idiocy go from strength to strength.

Usually in this instance the cries of plagiarism would already be ringing out from Bournmouth but somehow in this case I don't think so, after all that would mean admitting he's Veritas.....and as we all know, that's never going to happen!

The Whole Story

I was lucky enough to recieve an advance copy of 'David Farrant: Out Of the Shadows' earlier this week. While I obviously can't reveal too much, I think it's safe to say there's going to be one very red faced fake bish in bournmouth very soon. At least I think his face will be red. It could be difficult to tell under all that egg! :-))

Still, Seans well known for his sense of humour and I'm sure he'll take these revelations of his past with his usual good grace and easy going manner.......

which means he's gonna hit the roof! Ho ho!

On a different note I've recieved a few more e-mails regarding his fake user names. I'll put them up in a few days. Thanks to everybody who sent them in. I honestly don't know how he keeps track of them all. I guess it's just lucky he's got no religious duties to fulfil, at least he's got plenty of time on his hands.

A Cut Above

Last Friday our potty pal seems to have spent most of his birthday writing a blog of epic proportions, most of which was devoted to accusing David Farrant of libel and deriding him and some of his friends. In amongst this highly amusing piece of pseudo morally outraged nastiness the bish cut and pasted this passage from Davids blog;

"Well, today is not my birthday but I certainly enjoyed opening Kev’s present!  The package contained essential research material dating back many years, including b/w and colour photographs, written correspondence and a selection of personal emails which had been copied onto disc for me. There was also a typed summary of some fairly recent ‘birthday speeches’, or more precisely, suggestions from the host on what should be ‘done about David Farrant’. He (the party host) hadn’t liked my disclosures about fake religious groups and other written material in my published books that debunked a serious belief in vampirism. ... I believe Kev will be returning to Spain later in August, but he will be coming over with Bev before that as they would like to meet a couple of other people." 


Unfortunately Sean's accidently edited out a few minor points in the above, such as the part about his room full of nazi paraphanalia, the bit where he uses fake user names to malign people on a far right website and the part where he gave out Davids private adress with the advice "he lives alone"

Luckily enough I spotted Seans mistake and was fortunately able to correct it for him. We would'nt want him looking like a fraud and a liar now, would we!

Bonky the birthday boy

I'd just like to take this opportunity to wish our favorite fake bish a very happy 67th birthday. Here's to many more years of insane drivel and character assassination! Hip hip hurrah!

This extract is taken from 'The Last Post' (by Sean of course, this time posing as FoSBM)

"Mr Farrant's eldest son (born in November 1967) also indulges in vulgar language and not-so-veiled threats. Jamie Coster, now calling himself Jamie Farrant, stayed out of the picture for over four decades before deciding to seek out his deviant father to the chagrin of the rest of his family.

Veritas commented:

"After forty years of managing to avoid Farrant's curse, Jamie Farrant (chatty.gef) has finally had the sins of the father visited upon him. Now approaching forty-four, he seems every bit as reprehensible as the man whose poisonous legacy he continues by colluding in a vendetta almost as old as himself. Jamie Farrant suddenly sought out his father and decided to change the surname, which had served him for the best part of four decades, from 'Coster' to 'Farrant.'"

Oh dear, It seems I've instigated yet another hissy fit from the raving 'Rev'. Well what can I say.
The fact is that criticism from this pompous idiot can only be a good thing. When you consider his constant lying, his far right wing beliefs (yes,I DO have the photo Sean), his attacks on innocent people he's never even met and his general nasty attitude to all that dare to disagree with him then I take his dissaproval as a compliment. Thanks mate, keep it coming, it's good to know I'm doing something right :-))

On a serious note there is one thing I'd like to clarify.Sean writes,

"Jamie Farrant, stayed out of the picture for over four decades before deciding to seek out his deviant father to the chagrin of the rest of his family."

Seeing as Sean has never met, talked to or been in contact with any member of my family (excluding David of course) for over 40 years, I'm wondering why he feels qualified to discuss their reactions, as he obviously knows absolutely nothing about them.

Just more lies I'm afraid,

Will he ever stop? Somehow I very much doubt it, writing fiction is his forte after all!