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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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Hop tu Naa: A Isle of Man Celebration
26 October 2023
Inside Number 9: ‘Dead Line’ Live Halloween Special 2018 REVIEW
29 October 2018
Ireland’s Púca Festival: A Different Kind of Halloween
27 October 2024
Edinburgh’s Top 5 Haunted Places to Visit at Halloween
21 January 2013
ghosts & hauntings
A Haunted House Built by My Ancestors in Somerset
16 October 2024
Hartley Mauditt, The Ghost Village of Hampshire
13 July 2024
England’s 5 Most Creepy Victorian Haunted Piers To Visit
19 October 2017
Haunted Places to Visit in Maldon, Essex
17 April 2026
horror & fantasy films
11 August 2024
27 August 2013
Would watching London after Midnight be a let down?
30 March 2015
Young Frankenstein 1974 REVIEW
9 September 2017
15 May 2015
Charles Ogle and the first Frankenstein 1910 REVIEW
2 March 2012
television
Armchair Thriller (S2, E01-06): The Victim REVIEW
15 November 2024
The Christmas Carol 1949 TV REVIEW
23 December 2024
The Room in the Tower TV REVIEW
31 December 2025
Ghosts BBC Christmas Special 2020 REVIEW
9 December 2023
Jamaica Inn, Most Haunted REVIEW
23 March 2015
Thriller (S2, E2): Once The Killing Starts REVIEW
16 November 2019
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
11 April 2012
Crooked Spire: The Devil in Derbyshire
2 April 2016
Hooden Horse Folklore of East Kent
17 February 2026
Irish Zombies: A Bite of Superstition
14 November 2014
10 Spooky Facts About St George’s Day
22 March 2022
Cornish Owlman: Everything you need to know
2 January 2019
Dark history
Dr Crippen’s Execution: He Swung Into Eternity Without A Word
23 November 2012
29 November 2013
How WW2 Turned Tyneham Into A Ghost Village
10 November 2017
5 English Pubs With Skulls And Other Dark Objects
18 January 2022
Victorian Lunatic Asylums – The Living Tombs!
25 May 2014
Britain’s 5 Most Sinister Abandoned Mental Asylums
3 April 2015
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
Clapham Wood: Haunted or Hoax?
10 October 2023
Alan Godfrey and the Yorkshire Alien Abduction
13 June 2019
How I Started Hunting Ghosts And UFOs: Dr Robert Young
3 January 2024
The Alien Autopsy Scandal, A Very British Con
22 June 2026
The Mince Pie Martians And The Housewife
21 September 2023
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Trewint Tor: A Tale Of Scaredy Cats On Bodmin Moor
19 August 2020
Did Elliott O’Donnell Meet Bigfoot?
2 July 2020
Shug Monkey Strikes Fear Into Cambridgeshire
19 April 2023
Loch Ness Monster Mania – 1933-style
18 May 2012
Black Dogs and Other Terrifying Warnings of Death
27 November 2016
Cryptid Worms: Legend and Lore
4 January 2019
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Richard Case: How I’d Solve The Talking Mongoose Mystery
9 October 2023
Who are the Black Eyed Children?
13 April 2015
Is Spontaneous Human Combustion Real?
16 February 2015
The Supernatural Side of Stonehenge
19 October 2023
There’s Something Mysterious About Milton Keynes
26 August 2013
Could ‘Near Death Experiences’ Actually Be Painful?
13 June 2012
