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From haunted houses to villainous vampires, these are the spooky reads our experts just can’t forget.
Ghosts’s mix of humour and poignancy echoes real 19th century attempts to communicate with spirits.
The stylish Oscar Wilde animation has a distinguished cast, including Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
Television’s Unsolved Mysteries – about to be rebooted – deals with true crime on one hand, and supernatural events like alien abductions on the other. They share powerful psychological bonds.
We have an innate desire to be reminded of darkness and mortality during the festive season.
Sometimes the unknown is more appealing than the truth – and it has kept ghost hunters in business for generations.
Four spine chillers and a slapstick zombie comedy film to get you back out from behind the sofa.
The story of how Mary Shelley dreamed up Frankenstein is famous. Less well-known, however, is the reading material that inspired her to write.
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Lecturer in Creative Writing and 19th-Century Literature, Aberystwyth University
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Reader in Cultural History, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor of Film and Television, Course Leader BA Film Cultures, Kingston University
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Senior Lecturer (Media Studies and Production), University of Southern Queensland
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PhD candidate, Creative Writing, Durham University
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Assistant Professor in Applied English, University of Nottingham
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Reader in Late Victorian Literature, Loughborough University
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Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing, Anglia Ruskin University
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Lecturer in East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Modern English and American Literature, University College Dublin
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Honorary Associate in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Radio Studies, University of Salford
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Head of Italian Studies, University of Warwick
