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Dacre Stoker on Why Dracula is the Ultimate Halloween Story

Spooky Isles

21 August 2025

Dacre Stoker, great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker, tells the Spooky Isles Podcast why Dracula remains the ultimate Halloween story, rooted in folklore, fiction, and Gothic horror

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Halloween Poems to Read by Candlelight 2025

Halloween Poems to Read by Candlelight 2025

25 September 2021

Jack O’Lantern: 13 Things You Didn’t Know

Jack O’Lantern: 13 Things You Didn’t Know

7 October 2018

Dark Origins of Halloween: The Night The Dead Haunts The Living

Dark Origins of Halloween: The Night The Dead Haunts The Living

29 October 2012

4 Halloween Traditions We All Love and the Creepy Reasons Behind Them

4 Halloween Traditions We All Love and the Creepy Reasons Behind Them

27 October 2017

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ghosts & hauntings

England’s Top 5 Haunted Railway Stations

Rick Hale

20 February 2020

RICK HALE rides the haunted rails, bringing us the 5 most haunted railway stations in England

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The Moaning Workman of Burnham-on-Sea High Lighthouse

The Moaning Workman of Burnham-on-Sea High Lighthouse

13 September 2025

Steph Lay Reveals Haunted Milton Keynes’ Hidden Ghost Stories

Steph Lay Reveals Haunted Milton Keynes’ Hidden Ghost Stories

12 September 2025

Haunted: E. Jay Gilbert’s Journey Through Britain’s Ghost Lore

Haunted: E. Jay Gilbert’s Journey Through Britain’s Ghost Lore

9 September 2025

Ghostly Echoes Fill Nottingham’s City of Caves

Ghostly Echoes Fill Nottingham’s City of Caves

8 September 2025

Dering Wood: From Ghostly Legends to a Paranormal Hoax

Dering Wood: From Ghostly Legends to a Paranormal Hoax

5 September 2025

80 Haunted Places in the West Midlands

80 Haunted Places in the West Midlands

5 September 2025

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EDITOR’S PICKS

Growing Pains: Hammer House of Horror (Ep.4)

Andrew Garvey

11 March 2013

Tower of Evil 1972 REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

11 November 2013

What Happened to the Princes in The Tower?

Jay Hollis

16 April 2015

Howard Jackson talks about Nightmares Ahead

Spooky Isles

5 June 2015

Ghost Searchers Ireland Investigates Donaghadee Town Hall

Janet Quinlivan

8 March 2017

Derby: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Elliot Davies

14 January 2013

The Hexham Heads and the Werewolf

MJ Steel Collins

22 July 2013

Unveiling Britain’s 10 Wedding Customs and Superstitions Secrets

Spooky Isles

15 March 2024

Armchair Thriller (S2, E15-18): Fear Of God REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

3 January 2025

Richard Mansfield, The Definitive Jekyll and Hyde

Andrew Garvey

1 August 2013

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