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The Island of Doctor Moreau BOOK REVIEW

28 May 2024 by Petula Mitchell
Island of Doctor Moreau

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells as a disturbing exploration of Victorian fears and ethical dilemmas through its blend of horror and science fiction, writes PETULA MITCHELL

Categories Literature Tags Book Reviews, H.G. Wells

The Karloff Compendium by Stephen Jacobs BOOK REVIEW

24 May 2024 by Terry Sherwood
The Karloff Compendium by Stephen Jacobs BOOK REVIEW 1

Stephen Jacobs’ The Karloff Compendium is a must-read, offering rich anecdotes and new insights, making it a valuable addition for any Boris Karloff and horror enthusiast, writes TERRY SHERWOOD

Categories Horror and Fantasy Films Tags Book Reviews, Boris Karloff

Armchair Thriller (S1, E6-10): A Dog’s Ransom REVIEW

24 May 2024 by Richard Phillips-Jones
Armchair Thriller (S1, E6-10): A Dog's Ransom REVIEW 2

A missing dog, an apparently disinterested police force and a young constable eager to impress, heading into dark waters. RICHARD PHILLIPS-JONES revisits a classic Armchair Thriller: A Dog’s Ransom (1978)

Categories Television Tags Armchair Thriller, Episode Guides and TV Retrospectives, ITV

Clive Barker: 10 Things You Didn’t Know

22 May 2024 by Spooky Isles
Clive Barker

Clive Barker, the British horror master, is a multi-talented artist known for his chilling imagination. Here’s 10 things you might not known about him…

Categories Literature Tags Clive Barker, Hellraiser

Keeper of the Heads: London Bridge’s Grim Custodian

5 July 202421 May 2024 by Richard Clements
London Bridge

For centuries, London Bridge employed the Keeper of the Heads to maintain gruesome displays of decapitations, writes RICHARD CLEMENTS

Categories Dark History Tags London, Royalty 2 Comments

Apparitions on Arden Street, Edinburgh

8 January 202517 May 2024 by Guest Writer
Arden Street, Marchmont, Edinburgh

Arden Street in Marchmont, Edinburgh has a picturesque quality that hides eerie secrets, as WAYNE GILBERT reveals in the newly-released Tales from the Crypts of Auld Reekie

Categories Ghosts and Hauntings Tags Edinburgh, Scotland

Chichester: 5 Haunted Places To Visit

15 May 2024 by Spooky Isles
Chichester

Chichester has its share of spooky legends – here are five places you could come face to face with a ghost!

Categories Ghosts and Hauntings Tags Haunted Places to Visit in England, South-East England, West Sussex 3 Comments

Armchair Thriller (S1, E1-4): Rachel In Danger 1978 REVIEW

11 May 2024 by Richard Phillips-Jones
Armchair Thriller (S1, E1-4): Rachel In Danger 1978 REVIEW 3

A little girl thinks she’s being reunited with her father, but instead meets with the impostor who murdered him. RICHARD PHILLIPS-JONES kicks off his Armchair Thriller episode guide with Rachel In Danger (1978).

Categories Television Tags Armchair Thriller, Episode Guides and TV Retrospectives, ITV

The Demon Headmaster Keeps Us Spellbound!

9 May 2024 by Gemma Johnson
The Demon Headmaster

The Demon Headmaster, an old-school spooky BBC kids show from the mid 1990s, has mesmerized our Junior Paranormal Events reviewers, writes GEMMA JOHNSON

Categories Television Tags BBC, Episode Guides and TV Retrospectives, Junior Paranormal Events

Exploring the Haunting Echoes of Craiglockhart

9 May 2024 by Guest Writer
Craiglockhart Hydrotherapy Hospital, Tales from the Crypts of Auld Reekie

Craiglockhart, a creepy old building in Edinburgh, is central to guest writer JOSS CAMERON’s contribution to John S. Tantalon’s chilling new paranormal collection, Tales from the Crypts of Auld Reekie.

Categories Ghosts and Hauntings Tags Edinburgh, Scotland

Denbigh Castle Haunts Welsh Landscape

9 May 20248 May 2024 by Spooky Isles
Denbigh Castle

The imposing ruins of Denbigh Castle in North Wales echo centuries of violent history and whispered tales of the supernatural

Categories Ghosts and Hauntings Tags Denbighshire, Haunted Castles, Wales

Friends Unveil Haunted Cottage’s Secrets

9 May 20245 May 2024 by Guest Writer
Spooky Isles readers SALLY SELL and SAMANTHA DAVIES share their creepy experiences living in a haunted cottage in West Sussex that made them (possibly) believe in ghosts 

Spooky Isles readers SALLY SELL and SAMANTHA DAVIES share their creepy experiences living in a haunted cottage in West Sussex that made them (possibly) believe in ghosts 

Categories Ghosts and Hauntings Tags South-East England, West Sussex

Mystery of the Gwydir Witch: Beyond Their Emerald Spires

1 May 20241 May 2024 by Guest Writer
Mystery of the Gwydir Witch: Beyond Their Emerald Spires 4

Guest writer R. P. SERIN recalls a mysterious holiday in North Wales, where he and his family may have encountered the infamous Gwydir Witch

Categories Ghosts and Hauntings Tags Conwy, Wales, Witchcraft

Haunted Templemichael: Knights Templar, an Ancient Curse and Ley Lines

30 April 202430 April 2024 by Guest Writer
Templemichael Castle Ruins

Once a Knights Templar stronghold, Templemichael in County Waterford now echoes with spectral hauntings and long past historical battles, writes HELENA B. SCOTT

Categories Dark History Tags Ireland, Munster, Waterford

When Evil Came To Rochdale TV REVIEW

8 July 202530 April 2024 by Gemma Johnson
A scene from When Evil Came To Rochdale, a documentary on Channel 5

When Evil Came To Rochdale is a Channel 5 crime documentary looking at the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. GEMMA JOHNSON says the case bears a disturbing resemblance to witch hunts from the 17th century

Categories Television Tags Greater Manchester, Rochdale, Witch Trials, Witchcraft

Happy Death Day: Ghosts BBC (S1, E3) REVIEW

28 April 2024 by Gemma Johnson
Happy Death Day - Ghosts BBC

Happy Death Day, episode 3 of Ghost BBC’s first series sees the living get used to living with the dead and the introduction of Death Day! GEMMA JOHNSON takes a look back

Categories Television Tags BBC, Ghosts BBC TV Series

Hauntings: A Book of Ghosts by Neil Oliver BOOK REVIEW

27 April 2024 by David Saunderson
Hauntings by Neil Oliver

TV historian Neil Oliver turns his attention to the paranormal in Hauntings: A Book of Ghosts and Where to Find Them Across 25 Eerie British Locations. DAVID SAUNDERSON take a look at this spooky new book

Categories Ghosts and Hauntings Tags Book Reviews

Count Duckula Quacks Us Up

26 April 2024 by Gemma Johnson
Count Duckula

Count Duckula, the vegetarian vampire from the 1980s British cartoon, is a hit with the Junior Paranormal Event crew, writes GEMMA JOHNSON

Categories Television Tags Dracula, Episode Guides and TV Retrospectives, ITV, Junior Paranormal Events, Vampires

Harry Price Versus The Psychic Frauds

23 April 2024 by Rick Hale
Harry Price

Harry Price, the renowned English ghosthunter, had a passion for exposing supernatural fraudsters. RICK HALE delves into three of Price’s most revealing cases

Categories Paranormal Research Tags Harry Price

The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine’s Island

19 April 2024 by Rick Hale
The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine's Island

Was it a ghost pirate ship or a UFO? RICK HALE tries to separate fact from fiction in the strange goings on at St Catherine’s Island in Wales

Categories Ghosts and Hauntings, UFOs/Aliens Tags Pembrokeshire, Wales

Daughter of Darkness: The Horror Films of Chloe Franks

19 April 2024 by David Turnbull
Chloe Franks

Chloe Franks was a staple of British horror of the 1970s. DAVID TURNBULL takes us through the horror films of the former English child actor

Categories Horror and Fantasy Films Tags Horror Film Memories

Most Haunted The Stage Show REVIEW

16 April 2024 by Rachael Elizabeth
Most Haunted The Stage Show

Most Haunted The Stage Show is a fun look back at the popular ghost hunting TV show, but it’s not without its problems, writes RACHAEL ELIZBTETH

Categories Paranormal Research, Television Tags Most Haunted 2 Comments

Meet Philip Aylesbury: The Ghost Created By Scientists

12 April 2024 by Les Hewitt
Meet Philip Aylesbury, the aristocratic ghost from the Cromwell era, created by British scientist Dr George Owen and his team in 1972 to challenge the limits of paranormal research. LES HEWITT tells us about the amazing experiment

Philip Aylesbury, the aristocratic ghost from the Cromwell era, was created by British scientist Dr George Owen and his team in 1972 to challenge the limits of paranormal research. LES HEWITT tells us about the amazing experiment

Categories Paranormal Research

Gorilla War: Ghosts BBC (S1, E2) REVIEW

28 July 202412 April 2024 by Gemma Johnson
THE ghosts of Button House declare war on their living housemates but it's to no avail... GEMMA JOHNSON takes a back look at Ghosts BBC episode two, titled Gorilla War

THE ghosts of Button House declare war on their living housemates but it’s to no avail… GEMMA JOHNSON takes a back look at Ghosts BBC episode two, titled Gorilla War

Categories Television Tags BBC, Ghosts BBC TV Series
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