AN INVESTIGATION into a teacher over her gothic vampire websites and novels is now looking into allegations she read out her work to pupils.

Samantha Goldstone, an English and drama teacher at St Christopher's CE High School, agreed to stay away from the church school she has taught at for three years while the complaints are investigated.

Now headteacher Alasdair Coates has revealed the investigation will also look at allegations Mrs Goldstone told pupils her pen name and openly read her work to students.

The claims - some by pupils - have been posted on the Lancashire Telegraph's website.

The school's investigation followed parent complaints over the part-time writer's personal websites and others that promote gothic literature written under her pen name Paigan Stone which she states contains "adult content with vampire eroticism, violence and blood lust."

Union chiefs reacted with concern to the news.

And they branded her website "lurid."