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3 July 2026
Halloween is coming!
Why FEAR at Avon Valley leads the UK scare scene
2 November 2025
FEAR at Avon Valley delivers the UK’s most consistently thrilling and immersive Halloween event, balancing theatre-quality storytelling with a genuine festival atmosphere, writes PM BUCHAN
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Spooky Isles Halloween Playlist 2019
27 October 2019
10 Great Monster Songs For Your Halloween Party!
9 October 2020
Allantide and Apples: Halloween in Cornwall
27 October 2023
ghosts & hauntings
Bexley’s Haunted Hall Place Creaks With Ghosts!
28 December 2016
Is Grace Dieu Priory Leicestershire’s Most Haunted Ruins?
19 February 2013
Britain’s 5 Strangest Animal Ghosts
28 December 2023
The Phantom London Bus: Unravelling An Urban Legend
15 February 2025
Lady Ursula’s Ghostly Christmas Walk at Madingley Hall
14 December 2022
horror & fantasy films
Top 5 Greatest Hammer Horror Monsters List
27 July 2019
15 May 2015
The Vampire Lovers 1970 REVIEW
20 June 2012
26 August 2013
20 October 2013
television
The Nightmare Man BBC RETROSPECTIVE
28 December 2014
Young Dracula: Something To Get Your Fangs Into
15 November 2023
22 July 2020
Thriller (S3, E6): The Next Scream You Hear REVIEW
10 January 2021
Thriller (S6, E7): Death In Deep Water REVIEW
1 November 2021
Dracula BBC 2020 Episode Three: The Dark Compass REVIEW
5 January 2020
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Medieval Vampire Legends in UK and Ireland
22 August 2013
Why Do We Celebrate Boxing Day?
26 December 2024
King Arthur’s Adventures In The Underworld
2 July 2014
Doctor Blood’s Coffin 1961 REVIEW
20 January 2013
5 Monstrous Black Dogs from British Folklore
27 September 2022
Dark history
London’s Plague Pits: A Grim Guide
6 July 2024
John George Haigh’s vampire circus of blood and acid
2 November 2014
5 English Pubs With Skulls And Other Dark Objects
18 January 2022
Literature
Who is Dracula’s Father? BOOK REVIEW
15 April 2026
D.E.V.I.L by Jill Lincoln BOOK REVIEW
18 March 2026
UFOS & ALIENS
Winston Churchill WW2 UFO coverup exposed!
17 June 2019
Charles Jevington’s Mysterious Journey to the Stars
13 August 2022
Cedric Allingham’s Flyer Saucer: A UFO Hoax But A Good One
6 October 2023
Clapham Wood: Haunted or Hoax?
10 October 2023
Attacked by a UFO: The Robert Taylor Incident
19 October 2019
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Cornish Owlman: Everything you need to know
2 January 2019
Yeth Hounds and Alien Big Cats VIDEO
7 June 2020
Cryptid Worms: Legend and Lore
4 January 2019
Trewint Tor: A Tale Of Scaredy Cats On Bodmin Moor
19 August 2020
Black Dogs and Other Terrifying Warnings of Death
27 November 2016
Do Real-Life Monsters Stalk Our Moors, Lakes And Mountains?
22 September 2019
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
Clapham Wood: Haunted or Hoax?
10 October 2023
When Archaeology Meets the Psi Factor
2 January 2026
In Search of Gef The Talking Mongoose
18 September 2023
The Bizarre Kersey Time Slip Mystery
27 October 2023
Busby Stoop, Thirsk’s Cursed Chair
1 February 2023
