It is mid-autumn in the Gorbals in 1954 - a typically dreary Thursday morning.

Socks pulled up high and bags hastily slung over shoulders, children begin walking to school, not knowing that their bags would later be traded for stakes and their socks would be covered in the mud of the necropolis.

Break arrives, and playgrounds begin to talk. Two children are missing. No one knows where they came from or where they have gone.

Now they have been killed. Brutally kidnapped and eaten by an unknown villain.

And suddenly, hundreds of children are running past police stations and factories, grabbing shovels and stones and wooden stakes longer than their arms in a dash to the necropolis.

Young eyes peer up at the older children who are carrying crowbars and leading the group through the gates.

A vampire with iron teeth was on the loose, they'd later tell their parents.

Now, 60 years later, the story of the search for the Gorbals Vampire will be retold in the Citizen's Theatre in Glasgow.

Over 50 community performers will perform a reenactment of the hunts, in a production written by Johnny McKnight.

The sudden hysteria in schools was blamed on American horror comic books.

Parents accused Artist Hy Fleishman's 1951 series Dark Mysteries of causing the panic when they discovered the comics featured a vampire with iron teeth, and campaigned for the series to be banned.

The campaign later reached parliament, and caused the introduction of the 1955 Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act being passed.

Others blame the widespread frenzy on an old Scots myth 'Jenny with the iron teeth'.

Parents would often threaten their misbehaving children with a visit from the fearsome old woman, who was said to haunt Glasgow Green in the early 19th century.

Ronnie Sanderson was an eight-year-old school boy at the time of the fanged frenzy.

In an interview with the BBC in 2010, he said: ""I was there. I was in the graveyard when I was eight years old.

"I just remember scampering home to my mother: 'What's the matter with you?' 'I've seen a vampire' and I got a clout round the ear for my trouble.

"I didn't really know what a vampire was."