Every now and then you design a piece of jewellery and think, surely we must have done this before – it feels so quintessentially Alchemy. Apparently not. A vampire bat emerging from a Gothic arch window creates a perfect cross-shaped silhouette; it could hardly be more on-brand. Much later, on reflection, I remembered a minor black-and-white graphic artwork I produced many years ago that explored a very similar idea. That piece was titled The Altar.

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”

The chilling ululation at the edge of your perception leads to an unholy compulsion to break that ancient, unspoken accord between the living and the dead: Thou shalt not pass.

A call that shatters the protection of the sacred threshold, urging you to throw open casement and door — to embrace the dead of night and become as one with the revenants, wraiths, and lamia.