Episodes

  • Creepy Dolls and Christmas Stories
    Dec 2 2025

    How do you film an unfilmable horror? The BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas is a wonderful tradition, but is it possible the productions are just a bit too professional for their own good? Does it need a bit more daring, a bit more abandon, to successfully capture that elusive supernatural frisson?

    I'll be talking about M.R. James's A Haunted Dolls' House, and one lesser known but truly terrifying adaptation.

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    13 mins
  • Enfield 2: Debunker or Believer?
    Nov 18 2025

    In this second part to the discussion on The Enfield Poltergeist of 1977-1979, I talk with Dr Bernard Wills, Professor of Humanities and Historic Studies about the polarization of contemporary accounts. Where does the Enfield Poltergeist fall within the history of anomalous events?

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    18 mins
  • An Everyday Haunting: The Enfield Poltergeist
    Nov 4 2025

    The UK's best ever documented poltergeist which occurred between 1977 and 1979 still divides opinion. In this first of two part series, I'll delve into the controversy and talk about the various film and tv dramatizations and books.

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    12 mins
  • Who is This Who is Coming?
    Oct 19 2025

    How the M.R. James classic 'folk-horror' spawned two very different dramatizations.

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    12 mins
  • The Greatest Ever Supernatural Horror Film
    Oct 7 2025

    Let's see which one it is!

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    19 mins
  • Episode 2: Oil and Water, A New Woman in Black
    Sep 22 2025

    Viscerally real tragedy, gloom, and physical horror. How does the 2012 Hammer Film's production of The Woman in Black measure up to previous versions?

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    12 mins
  • A Fear Beyond Fear 1 - Pilot
    Sep 9 2025

    Some people are frightened by ghosts. Others aren't. For those of us who are, what exactly is it we are terrified of? With Caitlin Hanrahan.

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    16 mins