Hampstead Heath

the Heath · Hampstead

The open ground around Lucy's tomb becomes the hunting range of the bloofer lady and the place where wounded children return at dawn.

Story so far

Hampstead Heath lies near the Westenra Tomb and the London neighborhood where Lucy Westenra lived. After Lucy's burial, children begin vanishing into its dusk and returning after night with small punctures at their throats.

The children describe a 'bloofer lady' who charms and carries them. Their reports turn the Heath from ordinary playground into the first mapped hunting ground of the newly Un-Dead Lucy.

Appearance

Broad semi-rural open ground and lanes on London's northern edge, shadowed after dusk and close to churchyards, hospitals, houses, and scattered lamps.

Role

Hampstead Heath is Lucy's nocturnal hunting territory and the public evidence that her condition has begun endangering children beyond the tomb.

Relationships

Lucy Westenra — The Un-Dead Lucy Westenra lures children across the Heath under the name bloofer lady.

Westenra Tomb — The Westenra Tomb provides her nearby daytime refuge between attacks.

Sources — 1 recorded facts, by chapter

Chapter 13

The open ground around Lucy's tomb becomes the hunting range of the bloofer lady and the place where wounded children return at dawn.