Editing Highgate Cemetery (section)

==In popular culture==
Highgate Cemetery was featured in the popular media from the 1960s to the late 1980s for its so-called [[occult]] past, particularly as being the alleged site of the "[[Highgate Vampire]]".

* Several of [[John Galsworthy]]'s ''[[The Forsyte Saga|Forsyte Saga]]'' novels refer to Highgate Cemetery as the last resting place of the Forsytes; for example, Chapter XI, "The Last of the Forsytes", in ''To Let'' (1921).
* Footage of Highgate appears in numerous British horror films, including ''[[Taste the Blood of Dracula]]'' (1970), ''[[Tales from the Crypt (film)|Tales from the Crypt]]'' (1972) and ''[[From Beyond the Grave]]'' (1974).
* In ''[[That's Your Funeral]]'' (1972), the route taken in the Hearse Drivers' Grand Prix is mentioned as going "from [[Golders Green Crematorium|Golders Green]] to [[Woking Crematorium|Woking]] via [[Karl Marx]]'s grave in Highgate".
* In [[Len Deighton]]'s alternative history novel ''[[SS-GB]]'' and its [[SS-GB (TV series)|TV adaptation]], a bomb is detonated in the tomb of [[Karl Marx]] when his remains are exhumed by [[Nazi Germany|German occupation forces]] to be presented to the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[Audrey Niffenegger]]'s book ''[[Her Fearful Symmetry]]'' (2009) is set around Highgate Cemetery; she acted as a tour guide there while researching the book.<ref name="Highgate Cemetery">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/03/audrey-niffenegger-highgate-cemetery-novel|title=Audrey Niffenegger on Highgate Cemetery|last=Niffenegger|first=Audrey|date=3 October 2009|work=The Guardian|access-date=3 October 2009}}</ref>
* In the novel ''[[Double or Die]]'' (2007), a part of the ''[[Young Bond]]'' series, Ludwig and Wolfgang Smith plan to kill Bond in the cemetery.
* [[Tracy Chevalier]]'s book ''Falling Angels'' (2002) was set in and around Highgate Cemetery.
* The film [[Hampstead (film)|''Hampstead'']] (2017) features some scenes in the cemetery.
* [[J. K. Rowling|Robert Galbraith]]'s sixth [[Cormoran Strike]] novel ''[[The Ink Black Heart]]'' (2022) revolves around a fictional cartoon set in Highgate Cemetery.