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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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Robert Burns’ Halloween: Haunting Origins of Tradition

Robert Burns’ Halloween: Haunting Origins of Tradition

12 October 2024

Ireland’s Púca Festival: A Different Kind of Halloween 

Ireland’s Púca Festival: A Different Kind of Halloween 

27 October 2024

Teanlay Night: A Fylde Coast Halloween

Teanlay Night: A Fylde Coast Halloween

4 October 2023

Dacre Stoker on Why Dracula is the Ultimate Halloween Story

Dacre Stoker on Why Dracula is the Ultimate Halloween Story

21 August 2025

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Dreel Halls, St Adrian Of May And The Accused Witches

Guest Writer

10 November 2019

“Walking into the Tower within Dreel Halls is like a Step back through the centuries,” says ALLY REID, in this exclusive extract from The Haunted Scotland Cookbook

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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 Morrigan: Ireland’s Darkest Goddess

Guest Writer

6 March 2021

10 Phantom Kings and Queens of England

Jay Hollis

22 October 2023

Casting the Runes 1979 TV REVIEW

Richard Markworth

31 October 2022

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1941 REVIEW

Adam Scovell

3 August 2013

Windhouse At Yell: A Creepy Shetland Haunting

Rick Hale

14 August 2023

Lochs Of Fun With The Family Ness

Gemma Johnson

9 March 2024

Does St Mark’s Eve rival Halloween as the spookiest day of the year?

K.B. Goddard

15 October 2017

Westminster Bridge: Triffids, Daleks and Zombies

David Turnbull

25 July 2023

Damien: The Omen 2 1978 REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

12 April 2015

5 Haunted Southwark Pubs to Visit

Celeste Miles

15 February 2013

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