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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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Psychoville Halloween Special: You’d Be Foolish To Miss It

Psychoville Halloween Special: You’d Be Foolish To Miss It

25 November 2017

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

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

7 October 2018

Exploring British Halloween TV Specials

Exploring British Halloween TV Specials

2 October 2023

10 Great Monster Songs For Your Halloween Party!

10 Great Monster Songs For Your Halloween Party!

9 October 2020

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ghosts & hauntings

Langham Hotel, Haunted Stay In The Heart Of London

Celeste Miles

18 August 2013

The Langham Hotel in the heart of London has its fair share of famous spooks and spectres.

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New Lowndes Arms, Whaddon’s Haunted Village Pub

New Lowndes Arms, Whaddon’s Haunted Village Pub

15 September 2025

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

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EDITOR’S PICKS

Milton Keynes: 5 Haunted Places To Visit

Selene Paxton-Brooks

24 June 2013

The Lancashire Witches

Elliot Davies

25 December 2012

Is 50 Berkeley Square, London’s Most Haunted House?

Guest Writer

4 February 2012

Everything I know about Haunted Houses I learned from British literature

Guest Writer

16 June 2017

Cambridge’s Abbey House Buzzes With Paranormal Activity

Tracy Monger

21 August 2013

Phantoms In The Night Or ETs? BOOK REVIEW

Neil Nixon

17 November 2023

Allantide and Apples: Halloween in Cornwall

Christine Miller

27 October 2023

Madhouse 1974 Facts: 13 Things You Didn’t Know

Peter Fuller

30 October 2017

Lady Jane Grey’s Ghost haunts Bradgate House on Christmas Eve

Rick Hale

19 December 2022

The Uninvited 1944 REVIEW

David Saunderson

8 April 2013

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