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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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Discover Halloween’s Scottish Origins

Discover Halloween’s Scottish Origins

14 October 2014

Halloween the Beginning: Ireland’s Cave of Cats

Halloween the Beginning: Ireland’s Cave of Cats

21 October 2023

Halloween Monsters Crawl Out From Real Irish Folklore

Halloween Monsters Crawl Out From Real Irish Folklore

6 October 2017

Ireland Halloween: 5 Spookiest Places To Visit

Ireland Halloween: 5 Spookiest Places To Visit

25 October 2023

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ghosts & hauntings

Guildford: 5 Haunted Places to Visit

Petula Mitchell

15 October 2022

Guildford has a rich vein of paranormal history to investigate. PETULA MITCHELL tells us five of its most spooky places to visit!

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New Lowndes Arms, Whaddon’s Haunted Village Pub

New Lowndes Arms, Whaddon’s Haunted Village Pub

15 September 2025

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

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EDITOR’S PICKS

The Wizard of West Bow

MJ Steel Collins

18 August 2013

She-Wolf of London 1946 REVIEW

David Saunderson

19 February 2025

Everything I know about Haunted Houses I learned from British literature

Guest Writer

16 June 2017

Fachen, a Strange Giant

Jon Kaneko-James

7 August 2012

Richard Case: How I’d Solve The Talking Mongoose Mystery

David Saunderson

9 October 2023

Haunted Claypotts Castle, Dundee

Gregor Stewart

5 May 2016

Doghouse 2009 REVIEW

Andrew Garvey

2 July 2013

Armchair Thriller (S1, E15-20): Quiet As A Nun 1978 REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

3 October 2023

Why Ghost Stories At Christmas?

Guest Writer

16 December 2012

Meet Isle of Man Vampire, Matthew Hassal

Rick Hale

4 March 2020

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