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Halloween is coming!
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2 November 2025
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Dacre Stoker on Why Dracula is the Ultimate Halloween Story
21 August 2025
How To Make An Authentic Turnip Jack o’Lantern for Halloween
15 October 2022
Halloween Poems to Read by Candlelight 2025
4 October 2025
ghosts & hauntings
The Handless Wraith of Rait Castle
17 July 2014
Haunted London: Whitechapel E1
22 December 2017
Barry, South Wales: 5 Haunted Places to Visit
16 October 2017
Edinburgh: Top 30 Haunted Places to Visit
18 March 2019
Ghosts of Royal Arsenal, Woolwich
7 March 2020
Is 10 Downing Street in London haunted?
21 April 2017
horror & fantasy films
17 October 2017
The Paranormal Diaries: Clophill Director Kevin Gates Interview
22 September 2013
My Hammer Horror Shock Theatre Bubblegum Days
21 May 2012
Vincent Price in the UK Part 2: In The Country (1963-1973)
25 October 2023
The Masque of the Red Death 1964 REVIEW
9 June 2013
10 Shaun of the Dead Facts You Didn’t Know
8 January 2017
television
Children of the Stones: Essential Episode Guide
10 October 2018
The Nightmare Worlds of H. G. Wells REVIEW
20 October 2024
Danny Moss and The Haunted Hunts Interview VIDEO
8 December 2020
23 February 2018
6 Surprising Christmas Carol TV Specials
17 December 2011
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Boggart Hole Clough’s Monster Waits in the Dark
14 October 2025
How to Celebrate the Magic of Midsummer
15 June 2026
Hedgehog Superstitions: 10 Strange Things You Didn’t Know
15 August 2023
Evil Earth Magnetism of Bass of Inverurie, Scotland
7 April 2020
Dark history
Psychic Stain Plagues 16 Wardle Brook Avenue Murder Site
30 March 2023
Guy Fawkes Night: 10 Things You Need to Know
2 November 2021
Kingsclere’s Ghosts: Echoes of Wartime Tragedy
26 September 2023
A Corpse by Lamplight, the Horror of Smalls Lighthouse
20 October 2022
Reading Gaol’s Last Man Hanged: John Gould
19 July 2012
Literature
Who is Dracula’s Father? BOOK REVIEW
15 April 2026
D.E.V.I.L by Jill Lincoln BOOK REVIEW
18 March 2026
Dr Jekyll and Mr Seek BOOK REVIEW
19 February 2026
UFOS & ALIENS
The Mince Pie Martians And The Housewife
21 September 2023
The Bizarre Legend of St Catherine’s Island
19 April 2024
Attacked by a UFO: The Robert Taylor Incident
19 October 2019
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Cryptid Worms: Legend and Lore
4 January 2019
Morgawr: Cornwall’s Legendary Sea Serpent
15 November 2024
Cornish Owlman: Everything you need to know
2 January 2019
What Is The Monstrous Big Grey Man Of Ben Mac Dhui?
25 October 2017
Do Real-Life Monsters Stalk Our Moors, Lakes And Mountains?
22 September 2019
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Who are the Black Eyed Children?
13 April 2015
Could ‘Near Death Experiences’ Actually Be Painful?
13 June 2012
The Mysterious Angel of the Thames
23 July 2013
1 March 2022
The Supernatural Side of Stonehenge
19 October 2023
28 October 2022
