Ghost Stories

100 Ghosts: The Terror

Cor blimey / god blind me (yeah, I know!) I’m a bit obsessed with the Terror, and the Erebus for that matter. A few weeks ago I wasn’t...

100 Ghosts: In Fabric, Directed by Peter Strickland, 2018

A bonkers horror confection set in a weird ersatz present / recent past which looks like something produced by aliens whose only...

100 Ghosts: The Dead Room

Written and directed by Mark Gatiss, this was the BBC’s 2018 A Ghost Story for Christmas offering. It is the short but not very sweet...

100 Ghosts: The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M Boston

I was first introduced to this gentle tale of an ancient haunted house via the 1986 television series, broadcast just before Christmas. I...

100 Ghosts: The Tractate Middoth by M R James

I’ll be the first to admit it, I didn’t have a clue what a tractate or a middoth was before I first read this, but obscure as it is, the...

100 Ghosts: Schalken the Painter by Sheridan le Fanu.

Or as it should be called ‘Toxic Masculinity Never Dies’. This ghastly tale by Le Fanu, first published in the Dublin University Magazine...