After reading about a couple of Gothic vampires, the Croglin Grange creature strikes me as a more deformed monster variety with its flaming eyes and brown and mummified appearance (I kept imagining it as one of those creepsters in The Strain, but with dry brown skin). Originally, the story appeared in Hare's memoirs where he mentions that it was told to him and it's supposed to be true, but obviously the tale is mere hogwash. The scene where the vampire emerges from the darkness and climbs through the window is pretty creepy, especially if you're scared of people looking through your window at night and are generally uneasy living in a house or on the first floor. Not a mediocre story, but very short and not quite a necessary read for vampire fans. Still, deserves its place in anthologies.