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Spooky Isles
22 August 2026
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
Halloween Poems to Read by Candlelight 2025
4 October 2025
ghosts & hauntings
The Headless Ghost of King Charles I
29 January 2025
Haunted Balgonie Castle in Fife, Scotland
19 April 2016
Haunted Pendennis Castle: A Guide to Ghosts
27 December 2021
Royal Tunbridge Wells: 5 Haunted Places to Visit
19 March 2015
horror & fantasy films
Christopher Lee and Van Helsing
14 October 2013
Horror of Frankenstein 1970 REVIEW
23 June 2014
Bram Stoker’s Dracula 1992 REVIEW
4 June 2012
The Horror Of It All 1964 REVIEW
12 June 2026
What Inspired Charles Dickens, The Man Who Invented Christmas?
18 September 2017
Mad Monster Party? 1967 REVIEW
6 September 2021
television
12 February 2014
Fools: Ghosts BBC (S5, E1) EPISODE REVIEW
6 October 2023
Sapphire & Steel, Assignment II: The Railway Station 1979 REVIEW
19 October 2025
Dracula Mystery and Imagination 1968 REVIEW
9 January 2013
Exploring British Halloween TV Specials
2 October 2023
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Encounters with the Devil: Myth, Trauma or Reality?
4 September 2024
Medieval Vampire Legends in UK and Ireland
22 August 2013
Beware of the Evil Changeling Child
15 April 2015
Dandelions in Folklore and Superstition
11 May 2019
Dark history
10 Weird Things about King James IV of Scotland
6 August 2018
Hackney Mole Man: The Strange Legend of 121 Mortimer Road
17 August 2025
Was A Mummied Cat Buried In Secret Pendle Hill Witches’ Cottage?
12 September 2017
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
The Curious Tale Of The A70 UFO Incident
23 June 2023
Charles Jevington’s Mysterious Journey to the Stars
13 August 2022
The Sheerness UFO Incident: Britain’s First Great Aerial Mystery
12 September 2025
The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine’s Island
19 April 2024
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Loch Ness Monster Mania – 1933-style
18 May 2012
Black Dogs and Other Terrifying Warnings of Death
27 November 2016
What Is The Loch Ness Monster?
5 November 2014
The Beast of Bodmin Moor: Myth or a Very Big Cat?
17 January 2025
The Pig-Man Roams Cannock Chase
24 July 2013
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
There’s Something Mysterious About Milton Keynes
26 August 2013
28 October 2022
In Search of Gef The Talking Mongoose
18 September 2023
The Mysterious Angel of the Thames
23 July 2013
1 March 2022
Could ‘Near Death Experiences’ Actually Be Painful?
13 June 2012
