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13 January 2025
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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Discover Halloween’s Scottish Origins
14 October 2014
How To Make An Authentic Turnip Jack o’Lantern for Halloween
15 October 2022
Halloween the Beginning: Ireland’s Cave of Cats
21 October 2023
Spooky Halloween Fun For The Whole Family
9 October 2022
ghosts & hauntings
Derby Gaol, Home to Britain’s Most Frightening Ghosts
8 November 2022
Steph Lay Reveals Haunted Milton Keynes’ Hidden Ghost Stories
12 September 2025
Ghost Stories of Eddystone Lighthouse, Devon
18 October 2025
Bristol: 5 Haunted Places To Visit
16 February 2015
Dreel Halls, St Adrian Of May And The Accused Witches
10 November 2019
Dalston Hall Hotel: A Haunted Ghost Guide
30 December 2018
horror & fantasy films
28 December 2014
8 September 2020
8 November 2017
The Amazing Mr Blunden 1972 BLU-RAY REVIEW
6 December 2019
Alien 1979: A Sci-Fi Horror Iconoclast
10 May 2012
7 January 2013
television
Night of the Marionettes, Supernatural 1977 (E7)
2 October 2023
Is Rupert Everett the most underrated Sherlock Holmes?
23 March 2016
5 Chilling TV Christmas Specials by the Seaside
15 December 2017
The Clock House, Most Haunted REVIEW
9 September 2019
Farewell Catweazle: Geoffrey Bayldon obituary
13 May 2017
The Silent Scream: Hammer House of Horror (Ep.7)
18 May 2013
FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION
Allantide and Apples: Halloween in Cornwall
27 October 2023
The Outcast Dead: Unconsecrated Burials in the Midlands
15 March 2023
How To Make An Authentic Turnip Jack o’Lantern for Halloween
15 October 2022
The Duergar, The Dwarves of Simonside Hills
30 July 2013
Dark history
Oxford Martyrs Memorial Recalls A Fiery Past
24 November 2011
Callanish Stones: Mysteries Older Than Stonehenge
2 November 2023
Why Witches Were Safer In Wales
15 October 2023
Does Cursed Painting At Nags Head Pub Shrewsbury Cause Insanity?
24 November 2016
29 November 2013
Meet Isle of Man Vampire, Matthew Hassal
4 March 2020
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
Ralph Noyes: An Authentic MoD Voice Amid UFO Controversies
29 November 2023
4 Sceptical Reasons Against Alien Abduction
21 June 2019
Europe’s Roswell: 40 Years Since Impact BOOK REVIEW
11 November 2023
The Alien Autopsy Scandal, A Very British Con
22 June 2026
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Two Great Beasts: Aleister Crowley And the Loch Ness Monster
28 November 2020
Mystery Animals of The Lothians
4 June 2024
The Beast of Bodmin Moor: Myth or a Very Big Cat?
17 January 2025
Do Real-Life Monsters Stalk Our Moors, Lakes And Mountains?
22 September 2019
Shug Monkey Strikes Fear Into Cambridgeshire
19 April 2023
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA
1 March 2022
Deathbed Visions: A Glimpse Beyond the Veil?
21 April 2025
The Time Slips of Bold Street, Liverpool
22 May 2022
Clapham Wood: Haunted or Hoax?
10 October 2023
The Mysterious Angel of the Thames
23 July 2013
The Dodleston Messages: A Mystery From The Beyond?
27 July 2022
