In the late summer of 1977, an ordinary council house in Brimsdown, Enfield, in north London, became the setting for a claim of supernatural activity that would run for eighteen months. The address, 284…
Read PostThe Ferryman is one of those names that refuses to stay in a single century. Ask most people what it means and they will describe Charon, the grim boatman of classical belief who carried…
Read PostType the name Sister Adeline de Marseille into a search engine and you will meet a French nun who wakes with grave dirt beneath her fingernails, is said to carry hundreds of demons, dies…
Read PostExorcism is the religious or spiritual practice of evicting demons, djinns or other malevolent spirits from a person, place or object. The word itself comes from the Ancient Greek exorkismos, meaning binding by oath.…
Read PostThe Incubus is a title that keeps following horror readers around. It appears on a 1981 Canadian supernatural slasher, on a 2010 independent film set in a small community called Spoon River, and on…
Read PostThe Haunted Bookshop is one of the most atmospheric names in British bookselling. It suggests creaking floorboards, shelves of forgotten titles and the sense that something is still reading in the corner long after…
Read PostChillingham Castle has a reputation that reaches far beyond the borders of Northumberland. This medieval fortress, set in the village of Chillingham in the northern part of the county, is regularly described as the…
Read PostThe Haunted Library Edinburgh sits at the end of a city full of restless spirits. For readers of supernatural fiction, that pairing is hard to resist. The capital has been called one of the…
Read PostBeneath the busy streets of Edinburgh’s Old Town lies one of the city’s most atmospheric hidden places. The Edinburgh Vaults, also known as the South Bridge Vaults, are a series of chambers formed inside…
Read PostParanormal fiction casts a spell that few other genres can match. It is a form of storytelling built around storylines that revolve entirely around the paranormal: ghostly encounters, demonic bargains, unexplained phenomena and creatures…
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