Monthly Archives: April 2012

Guest writer KATIE DOHERTY says living in Britain has its ups and downs. But even at its worst, the UK has Hammer Horror and that makes everything okay!

Walpurgis Night - 30th April - is a spooky event named after a British saint

Bradford's STEPHEN DOYLE was 16 when he sneaked into to the newly-released An American Werewolf in London. He tells The Spooky Isles that his exploit resulted in a signed photo and letter of appreciation from the film's director John Landis

ANDREW GARVEY pays tribute to Cathedral - England's greatest and most influential doom metal band

York, some claim, is the "Most Haunted City in England". MIKE COVELL looks at some of its spookiest locations...

Guest writer JOHN MORRIS argues the reason we're never found the Whitechapel murderer is because Jack the Ripper was really a Jill

Guest writer ANNA HORIGAN is a huge fan of The League of Gentlemen. In this article, she looks back at the gruesome horror comedy television show

I am not demanding realism from my horror films but why can't they just punch each other in the face instead of choking each other?

Guest JON KANEKO-JAMES looks at the legend of Spring-Heeled Jack...

MATT WINGETT tells how he used hypnosis and visions of long-dead WW2 servicemen to inspire his latest ghost novel.

Who was Jack the Ripper? Ripperologist JON REES gives us some of his thoughts...

The Clink in London is so old, the medieval gaol is now another word for prison.

The practice of human skin covered books was real and more mainstream than we realise, says guest writer JON KANEKO-JAMES

Horror film historian STEPHEN JACOBS lists his top five Dracula films for The Spooky Isles

Guest writer REN ZELEN looks back on the 100 years since Bram Stoker's death and reports how his most famous creation, Dracula, continues "to feed on the lifeblood of our culture"

JON REES how Jack The Ripper still fascinates us almost 125 years since the Whitechapel murders

Award-winning horror biographer STEPHEN JACOBS lists his Top 10 Boris Karloff films exclusively for The Spooky Isles

Lower Quinton Witchcraft Murder? Was witchcraft the motive behind the grisly murder of Charles Walton, asks guest writer CLAIRE ATKINSON.

Did crafty tenants take advantage of a poorly-worded legal document lead to a ghost being trapped in Golders Green?

I don't wish to be alarmist but I fear that the the official London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic mascots may have been inspired by the work of a 16th Century occultist

GUY LYON PLAYFAIR investigated The Enfield Poltergeist first-hand in the 1970s. He takes a look back at the spectacular case for The Spooky Isles.

Somewhere on the East Midlands crossroad that links Belper to Ashbourne, you'll find the ghostly Horseman in Black. Guest writer ELLIOT DAVIES is going to track him down.

Carry On Screaming! - a spoof on Hammer Films - is both a is a horror and comedic delight, says guest writer ANDY DAVIDSON

Guest writer MACSEN MATTHEWS, a former hospital worker, uncovers the spookiness behind haunted hospitals and other medical facilities