BARRY RING tells about about the night a quick trip out for a snack turned into a confrontation with a phantom black dog!

Guest writer JOSEPH STANNARD takes a look at the increasingly haunted quality of modern experimental music in the UK.

Guest writer ANDREW GARVEY looks at the British newspaper reactions to the sigthing of “Nessie” when the famous inhabitant was “rediscovered” in Loch Ness in 1933

Ripperologist JON REES explores the Jack the Ripper suspects named in the McNaughten Memoranda in 1894.

The Monster Hunters are keeping 1970s London safe from vampires, werewolves and other unspeakable horrors. The Spooky Isles spoke to them about their new web series

Guest writer ROSIE McCLUNE says Glasgow is no mean city when it comes to hauntings and paranormal events

Guest writer MJ Wayland explores mysterious Glastonbury in this two part series, starting with The Ghosts of Glastonbury

CHARLIE ALBERTSON reviews the 1969 horror classic The Oblong Box, a Poe adaptation of revenge, justice and murder!

Guest writer TRESSA YEOMANS ponders the legend of the Loch Ness Monster – could Nessie really exist?

Guest writer PAUL JASON reviews The Wicker Man, a 1973 creepy, unsettling horror classic.

Horror legend Boris Karloff was a fading star in the 1960s. But he still produced some genuine classics. Guest writer STEPHEN JACOBS selects some of the best of Karloff’s later films.

18th Century Scottish explorer James Bruce set out to find an ancient text to strengthen his faith. Guest writer JACOB MILLSTEIN says what he actually found was The Devil himself!

Win set of three Stone Masters Series Vampire Novels by VMK Fewings

Horror film reviewer and author Alan Frank talks to Spooky Isles about his friendship with Peter Cushing. (Guest Blog for The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society.)

Guest writer ADAM GREENWOOD reviews “Jack the Ripper’s Secret Confession: The Hidden Testimony of Britain’s First Serial Killer” written by David Monaghan & Nigel Cawthorne

Who is your favourite Dracula? The Spooky Isles talks to horror film historian Alan Frank about the merits of two leading contenders for the King of the Vampires – Christopher Lee and Bela Lugosi.

Author Kai Roberts speaks to The Spooky Isles about his new book “Haunted Huddersfield”

Guest writer JOHN MORRIS describes a spooky, unsettling experience from his youth during the 1960s in Kilburn, North-West London.

Today DOM COOPER continues his SPOOKY SOUNDS SUNDAY series focusing on Wil Malone’s eerie main theme from the British 1972 Donald Pleasence horror classic Death Line.

One-time Hammer Films heartthrob Shane Briant is now a successful award-winning author living in Australia. STEWART KING talks to him for the Spooky Isles

Brighton and Hove are holiday meccas by the sea – but according to guest writer A.L. CUIN, they can be plenty spooky too!

Guest writer GAVINPAUL “FOX” MARRINER continues his occasional Spooky series into Magickal London by looking the British Museum and the Hellfire Caves

Ingrid Pitt starred in Hammer’s 1971 horror classic Countess Dracula. Guest writer MATTI BEAL goes behind the splatter and reveals the shocking real-life cruelty on which the film was based.

British director Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is coming, so guest writer REN ZELEN thought she’d remind us what a groundbreaking film, the original Alien was back in 1979.