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10 Hammer Horror Posters From Around The World
Richard Phillips-Jones
15 November 2021
Thriller (series 1, episode 8): File It Under Fear (1973) REVIEW
Richard Phillips-Jones
27 January 2017
Halloween is coming!
Why FEAR at Avon Valley leads the UK scare scene
2 November 2025
FEAR at Avon Valley delivers the UK’s most consistently thrilling and immersive Halloween event, balancing theatre-quality storytelling with a genuine festival atmosphere, writes PM BUCHAN
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Dacre Stoker on Why Dracula is the Ultimate Halloween Story
21 August 2025
Allantide and Apples: Halloween in Cornwall
27 October 2023
Ireland’s Púca Festival: A Different Kind of Halloween
27 October 2024
Jack O’Lantern: 13 Things You Didn’t Know
7 October 2018
ghosts & hauntings
New Forest: 5 Haunted Places To Visit
27 July 2015
St Albans: 5 Haunted Places To Visit
31 October 2013
‘Shadow Figure’ Terrified Me At Haunted Brentford Nightclub
28 November 2021
Haunted Portrait Watches Over The Three Swans Hotel
29 August 2025
Clonony Castle, Tudor Castle of Ghostly Proportions
26 December 2012
Windhouse At Yell: A Creepy Shetland Haunting
14 August 2023
horror & fantasy films
Night of the Eagle (1962) REVIEW
9 October 2013
5 Greatest British Giant Monster Movies
12 December 2017
Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter 1974 REVIEW
20 November 2011
A Cultural Exchange, Euro Horror Visits Britain
30 May 2014
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? 1971 REVIEW
14 October 2013
television
Ghostwatch Stephen Volk Interview VIDEO
24 October 2022
Dracula BBC 2020 Episode Three: The Dark Compass REVIEW
5 January 2020
2 October 2022
Hammer House of Horror TV Series EPISODE GUIDE
3 February 2013
22 July 2020
Why TV’s Sherlock has lost the plot
3 January 2016
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Allantide and Apples: Halloween in Cornwall
27 October 2023
Black Dogs and Other Terrifying Warnings of Death
27 November 2016
10 Weird British Easter Traditions
25 February 2020
Encounters with the Devil: Myth, Trauma or Reality?
4 September 2024
The Outcast Dead: Unconsecrated Burials in the Midlands
15 March 2023
England’s 6 Most Terrifying Vampires in History
18 June 2019
Dark history
23 November 2012
New Book Unearths UK Dark Tourism Spots
10 August 2024
The Murder of The Colleen Bawn
7 September 2013
The Mysterious Coffin of Thatcham
15 September 2012
Where Is Bedlam Asylum, London’s Original Madhouse?
6 April 2012
6 Unlikely Jack the Ripper Suspects
5 September 2012
Literature
Who is Dracula’s Father? BOOK REVIEW
15 April 2026
D.E.V.I.L by Jill Lincoln BOOK REVIEW
18 March 2026
UFOS & ALIENS
Phantoms In The Night Or ETs? BOOK REVIEW
17 November 2023
The Great Flying Saucer Hoax: How a 1967 Student Prank Fooled Britain
19 September 2025
The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine’s Island
19 April 2024
High Wycombe UFO: The Tale of William Robert Loosley
29 September 2023
UFOs Over Britain by Neil R Storey BOOK REVIEW
29 August 2025
Winston Churchill WW2 UFO coverup exposed!
17 June 2019
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Black Dogs and Other Terrifying Warnings of Death
27 November 2016
Trewint Tor: A Tale Of Scaredy Cats On Bodmin Moor
19 August 2020
Mystery Animals of The Lothians
4 June 2024
How The Loch Ness Monster Was Used For Political Propaganda
15 February 2015
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
In Search of Gef The Talking Mongoose
18 September 2023
10 March 2025
Time Slips with Dr Ann Winsper INTERVIEW
16 February 2022
How Hypnosis Helped Me to See a Ghost
24 April 2012
Mysterious Overtoun Bridge Where Scottish Dogs Go To Die
22 March 2015
The Crisis Apparition of John Bonnell
21 November 2023
