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Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein: A Gothic Must-See in Bath
14 December 2025
Avondale House, The Ghostly Home of the Uncrowned King
10 December 2025
10 December 2025
Buckingham Gaol: The Haunted Cell That Scratched Back
8 December 2025
Cadogan Square: London’s Who’s Who of Horror
5 December 2025
Ghostly Spurn Lighthouse, East Riding of Yorkshire
5 December 2025
Bosworth Hall Ghost Bound by Bloody Stain
1 December 2025
Haunted Dalmahoy Hotel Active With Ghosts of the Past
30 November 2025
The Genius of Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes
28 November 2025
The Bricked‑In Lady of Carlisle Castle
28 November 2025
Are Haunted Allotments a Thing? Urszula Wants to Find Out
23 November 2025
Tore House: Where Fire Met Fairy Folklore in Haunted Westmeath
23 November 2025
The Woman in Black at Theatre Royal Plymouth REVIEW
23 November 2025
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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Dark Origins of Halloween: The Night The Dead Haunts The Living
29 October 2012
Spooky Isles Halloween Radio Show 2021
26 October 2021
Discover Halloween’s Scottish Origins
14 October 2014
ghosts & hauntings
Beaconsfield: A Town of Hauntings and Highwaymen
10 December 2022
ASHLEY DARKWOOD outlines the dark and violent history that has made Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, one of England’s most haunted villages…
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Avondale House, The Ghostly Home of the Uncrowned King
10 December 2025
Buckingham Gaol: The Haunted Cell That Scratched Back
8 December 2025
Ghostly Spurn Lighthouse, East Riding of Yorkshire
5 December 2025
Bosworth Hall Ghost Bound by Bloody Stain
1 December 2025
The Bricked‑In Lady of Carlisle Castle
28 November 2025
Tore House: Where Fire Met Fairy Folklore in Haunted Westmeath
23 November 2025
horror & fantasy films
Boris Karloff in Canada before he was famous
11 August 2018
14 June 2014
11 Christopher Lee Facts You Never Knew!
11 June 2015
The Masque of the Red Death 1964 REVIEW
9 June 2013
26 February 2022
25 October 2017
television
BBC’S The Read: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Reece Shearsmith REVIEW
11 November 2025
Sapphire & Steel, Assignment II: The Railway Station 1979 REVIEW
19 October 2025
Bram Stoker’s Dublin Childhood: Folklore, Illness and Horror
17 September 2025
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle Upon Tyne
14 December 2025
Mystery and Magic at the Goblin Ha’
28 October 2025
The Black Elf of Islay Strikes in Battle
22 October 2025
Boggart Hole Clough’s Monster Waits in the Dark
14 October 2025
The Allendale Wolf, a beast remembered in fire
14 October 2025
Dark history
Blood Money: The Newcastle Witch Trials
19 December 2025
Manchester Cholera Victims Haunt St John’s Gardens
16 November 2025
Why Did Jack the Ripper Stop Killing?
10 November 2025
The Allendale Wolf, a beast remembered in fire
14 October 2025
Queensberry House: Edinburgh’s Forgotten Cannibal Ghost
2 September 2025
Literature
Lily’s Monster by Cliff McNish BOOK REVIEW
8 November 2025
Dracula 101: A Guide To Bram Stoker’s Horror Classic
15 October 2025
Halloween Poems to Read by Candlelight 2025
4 October 2025
Thomas Gray’s Elegy and the Human Truth Beneath the Grave
3 October 2025
UFOS & ALIENS
The Great Flying Saucer Hoax: How a 1967 Student Prank Fooled Britain
19 September 2025
Neil Nixon: Why We Still Don’t Know the Truth About UFOs
16 September 2025
The Sheerness UFO Incident: Britain’s First Great Aerial Mystery
12 September 2025
UFOs Over Britain by Neil R Storey BOOK REVIEW
29 August 2025
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
The Beast of Bodmin Moor: Myth or a Very Big Cat?
17 January 2025
Morgawr: Cornwall’s Legendary Sea Serpent
15 November 2024
Mystery Animals of The Lothians
4 June 2024
Loch Ness They Created a Monster TV REVIEW
1 January 2024
Alien Big Cat Sightings Claw Through Kent
12 November 2023
In Search of Gef The Talking Mongoose
18 September 2023
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Deathbed Visions: A Glimpse Beyond the Veil?
21 April 2025
10 March 2025
Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament
21 February 2025
Chilling Messages: My Haunting Encounter with the Unseen
9 September 2024
Chasing Nightmares: The Horror of Sleep Paralysis
26 March 2024
The Crisis Apparition of John Bonnell
21 November 2023
