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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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Teanlay Night: A Fylde Coast Halloween
4 October 2023
Headless Horsemen and Halloween: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
4 September 2022
Ireland’s Púca Festival: A Different Kind of Halloween
27 October 2024
Spooky Isles Halloween Playlist 2019
27 October 2019
ghosts & hauntings
Ilam Hall, ‘One Of My Most Haunted Places’
7 July 2020
Bath: 5 Haunted Places to Visit
30 September 2020
Bexley’s Haunted Hall Place Creaks With Ghosts!
28 December 2016
Mystery of the Rufus Stone, New Forest
8 May 2021
horror & fantasy films
The Horror Films of Skip Martin
11 April 2025
18 June 2013
8 November 2018
Top 5 Spaced Horror Film References
24 November 2022
Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein 1948 REVIEW
12 September 2018
Top 10 Best Boris Karloff Films
17 April 2012
television
Brannigan’s Nightclub, Most Haunted REVIEW
2 April 2015
Whovian Horrors: Watching Doctor Who From Behind The Couch
23 November 2023
Dracula BBC 2020 Episode Three: The Dark Compass REVIEW
5 January 2020
Friday Night Frights, Horror on 1980s TV
16 May 2014
The Grey Lady: Ghosts BBC (S2, E1) REVIEW
5 July 2024
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
The Tragic Tale of Glasgow’s Bob Dragon
9 September 2013
St Dunstan And His Devil-Beating Tongs
7 June 2012
Allantide and Apples: Halloween in Cornwall
27 October 2023
7 August 2012
Dark history
Meet Isle of Man Vampire, Matthew Hassal
4 March 2020
Curse of the Brampton Witch’s Tea Set
10 April 2016
Jack Ketch: The Executioner Who Horrified London
6 October 2024
John Christie: The 10 Rillington Place Murders
13 June 2023
Secrets of a Highgate Cemetery Tour Guide
28 January 2012
Strange Tale Of Sir Roger Tichborne, A Butcher Or Baronet?
1 December 2020
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
John Warren’s 1943 Close Encounter in Norfolk
29 September 2023
7 Strangest Ireland UFO Sightings
19 February 2020
UK Beginners Guide to UFOs VIDEO
28 September 2023
Europe’s Roswell: 40 Years Since Impact BOOK REVIEW
11 November 2023
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Loch Ness They Created a Monster TV REVIEW
1 January 2024
Loch Ness Monster Mania – 1933-style
18 May 2012
Shug Monkey Strikes Fear Into Cambridgeshire
19 April 2023
Mystery Animals of The Lothians
4 June 2024
Do Real-Life Monsters Stalk Our Moors, Lakes And Mountains?
22 September 2019
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Could ‘Near Death Experiences’ Actually Be Painful?
13 June 2012
What were the Death Tokens of Wales?
23 January 2013
Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament
21 February 2025
Meet Bill Ramsey, The Southend Werewolf
3 November 2022
There’s Something Mysterious About Milton Keynes
26 August 2013
