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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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How To Make An Authentic Turnip Jack o’Lantern for Halloween

How To Make An Authentic Turnip Jack o’Lantern for Halloween

15 October 2022

Exploring British Halloween TV Specials

Exploring British Halloween TV Specials

2 October 2023

Ireland Halloween: 5 Spookiest Places To Visit

Ireland Halloween: 5 Spookiest Places To Visit

25 October 2023

5 Reasons to Thank Ireland for Halloween

5 Reasons to Thank Ireland for Halloween

30 October 2013

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ghosts & hauntings

Ghostly Castle of Mey and the Queen Mother

Spooky Isles

8 September 2023

Discover the Haunted Castle of Mey in Caithness, where tragedy, tormented spirits and an connection to royalty create an tapestry of mystery

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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

The Uninvited 1944 REVIEW

David Saunderson

8 April 2013

Lady Eleanor 1971 rockets Lindisfarne To Top Of Charts

Richard Phillips-Jones

11 August 2018

Haunting of Dumbarton Castle, Scotland

Spooky Isles

30 December 2024

Barbara Shelley versus Veronica Carlson

Howard Jackson

31 August 2013

The Ghosts Of M.R. James: A Guide To Curious Phantoms

Eddie Brazil

7 July 2014

Gerald Gardner: A Very British Witchcraft REVIEW

Katie Doherty

18 August 2013

Blithe Spirit 1945 REVIEW

Christine Miller

13 December 2020

Fitz Manor, Most Haunted (S3, E7) REVIEW

Joanna Hague

16 October 2023

10 Rat Superstitions and Folklore You Didn’t Know

Callum Campbell

13 January 2022

Frankenstein 1931 REVIEW

David Saunderson

19 November 2011

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