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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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Top Creepy British TV Shows for Halloween

Top Creepy British TV Shows for Halloween

22 October 2023

Pendle Hill Special Most Haunted Live Halloween 2004 REVIEW

Pendle Hill Special Most Haunted Live Halloween 2004 REVIEW

30 March 2015

4 Halloween Traditions We All Love and the Creepy Reasons Behind Them

4 Halloween Traditions We All Love and the Creepy Reasons Behind Them

27 October 2017

Jack O’Lantern: 13 Things You Didn’t Know

Jack O’Lantern: 13 Things You Didn’t Know

7 October 2018

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ghosts & hauntings

Earlshall Castle, Fife: A Haunted Guide

Gregor Stewart

1 May 2016

Earlshall Castle in Fife is one of Scotland’s most historic and haunted places to visit. GREGOR STEWART reveals its ghosts…

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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

H.G Wells’ The War Of The Worlds: Sci-Fi Horror Ahead Of Its Time

Petula Mitchell

25 August 2023

Mary Bateman: The Dark Deeds Of A Yorkshire Witch

Guest Writer

5 August 2025

10 Bizarre and Unusual English Graves

Kate Cherrell

21 September 2019

What Do Grave Flowers Tell Us?

Nicola Carpenter

5 January 2013

Thriller (S2, E4): One Deadly Owner REVIEW

Richard Phillips-Jones

30 November 2019

Haunted Oxford Castle and Prison: Ghosts of 1000 Years

Spooky Isles

28 March 2025

Ghostly Mists Haunt Caernarfon Castle

Rick Hale

2 August 2022

Why I Believe in the Enfield Poltergeist

Jay Hollis

14 September 2013

Dracula: A Timeless Gothic Masterpiece

William Bove

10 December 2024

Ireland’s 20 Scariest Nun, Priest And Monk Hauntings

Ann Massey McElroy

7 January 2020

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