Literature

British and Irish writers have created some of the most loved and revered horror tales ever known. From Dracula to Frankenstein to the ghost stories of MR James and Charles Dickens, our books are spooky. Here we cover the classics all the way to the modern day with interviews with authors and profiles of new books.

The horror behind The Town Halloween Forgot
Essex Author Robert Hallmann Talks Ghosts and Dark History
James Turner’s St Christopher Medallion and Borley Rectory
The Horror of Predestination
Write What You Know (and how it killed J. Sheridan Le Fanu)
Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge REVIEW
Dracula at the New Vic REVIEW
10 Great Women From Gothic Horror
An English Ghost Story by Kim Newman REVIEW
13 Things You Didn’t Know About M.R. James
Little Penny Dreadfuls, 99 reasons why it’s great
Florence Marryat: A Revolutionary in Victorian Vampire Literature
A Guide to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix BOOK REVIEW
W.B. Yeats, poet and paranormalist
J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Death: What the newspapers said
Meet Arthur Machen, Wales’ Unsung Hero of Horror
Dracula by Bram Stoker: Thoughts on Chapter 8
A Guide to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire BOOK REVIEW
Dracula by Bram Stoker – Thoughts on Chapter 7
The Ghosts Of M.R. James: A Guide To Curious Phantoms
Dracula by Bram Stoker – Thoughts on Chapter 6