Monthly Archives: May 2012
Baby Farmers: Women Who Killed Infants For Cash
Baby farming involved poor mothers giving their infants up or adoption with the hope they would find a better life. Guest writer NICOLA CARPENTER explains some of these babies found anything but a happy home ...
Joe Meek’s Night of the Vampire
Our new column SPOOKY SOUNDS SUNDAY with DOM COOPER tells the tragic tale of Joe Meek and his song, "Night of the Vampire"
Alan Frank, the man who taught us about horror films
The Spooky Isles sits down with legendary British Horror Film reviewer and author Alan Frank to discuss his career and the genre he loves so much
The Overcrowded Afterlife
Crunching bones saves grave space, so DAVID SAUNDERSON discovered digging up his family tree. (The Spooky Isles' Guest Blog for The Skull Illusion.)
See St Oliver Plunkett’s Decapitated Head
Say hello to St Oliver Plunkett's Head, a religious relic which was once attached to the rest of the last Roman Catholic martyr to be executed in England