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The Red Room
Taken from the 1980 BBC1 Jackanory spinoff 'Spine Chillers' that featured abridged readings of classic spooky stories by the likes of Saki, M.R. James, John Wyndham and others and in this instance H....
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The Chrysalids (radio play)
'The Chrysalids' was the third of the 'John Wyndham' novels published in the 1950s after 'The Day of the Triffids' and 'The Kraken Wakes'. It's the story of a group of telepathic children living in a...
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Short Story: The Tomb of Pan
"Seeing," they said, "that old-time Pan is dead, let us now make a tomb for him and a monument, that the dreadful worship of long ago may be remembered and avoided by all."So said the people of the...
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Someone at the Top of the Stairs
'Thriller' ran for six series on ITV between 1973 and 1976. The title of the series is pretty self-explanatory but amongst it's 43 episodes there was one with a supernatural aspect, 'Someone at the...
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The Music on the Hill
Taken from the 1980 BBC1 Jackanory spinoff 'Spine Chillers' that featured abridged readings of classic spooky stories by the likes of H.G. Wells, M.R. James, John Wyndham and in this instance Saki,...
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The Image
Here we have a no budget black and white short film from 1967 that would have possibly been of no interest to anyone beyond being an early curio in the filmography of director Michael Armstrong (future...
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Voices in the Valley
'Barrowbeck, in the north of England, has a reputation for strangeness. It is a place that brings out the sin in people. But despite the dark isolation, people have lived there for centuries until the...
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Doctor Who: The Scorched Earth
Taken from the 1975 Doctor Who annual and read by Geoffrey Beevers (The Master in 'The Keeper of Traken') this is a lovely little daft Third Doctor and Sarah-Jane Smith tale. Here Doctor Who (as they...
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Playmates
A.M. Burrage was the author of numerous stories of the supernatural but, with the exception of a couple of well known tales that have often appeared in ghost story collections - 'Smee', 'The Waxwork',...
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Smith: An Episode in a Lodging House
Read by Hugh Ross for 'Book at Bedtime' in 2006 this Algernon Blackwood short story concerns a Doctor (although not John Silence) and an occult communion gone array.The vital and materialist young...
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The Exorcism of Amy
There were only three TV shows that scared me as a kid, Assignment 4 of Sapphire & Steel (the photograph one), the shadow sitting in the armchair in the opening titles of Armchair Thriller and,...
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The Last Laugh
First published in 1928 D.H. Lawrence's 'The Last Laugh' is the story of a manifestation of the God Pan in Hampstead on a winters night. Miss James and her friend Marchbank's, along with a young...
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The Kraken Wakes (Radio Drama 1998)
Newly weds Michael (Jonathan Cake) and Phyllis Watson (Saira Todd) have, via his job for the English Broadcasting Company (EBC), intermittent front row seats at the beginning, middle and end of the end...
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The Art Of Punk - Crass - The Art of Dave King and Gee Vaucher
A video created by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art for a short series of videos under the 'Art of Punk' banner which also featured Raymond Pettibon's art for Black Flag and Winston Smith's...
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A Short Film About John Bolton
John Bolton is a British artist known for his work, predominantly in the horror field, for British comics like 'Look In', 'House of Hammer'& 'Warrior', US comic publishers such as Marvel, DC and...
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The Birds (radio play)
Although published in 1952 it was the Hitchcock movie adaptation eleven years later that thrust Daphne du Maurier's short story of a world held hostage by angry avians, 'The Birds', firmly into the...
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Ancient Sorceries
Algernon Blackwood's 'Ancient Sorceries' was first published in 'John Silence' the 1908 collection of five stories featuring Blackwood's titular occult detective. The story revolves around the tale of...
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Over Sea and Under Stone (radio play)
Susan Cooper published 'Over Sea and Under Stone', the first in what would become known as 'The Dark is Rising Sequence' through Jonathan Cape in 1965. It's the story of the Drew children, Simon, Jane...
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The Dark is Rising (radio play)
Published 8 years after it's predecessor, 'The Dark is Rising', returned Susan Cooper to her Arthurian world but relocated the action from Cornwall to the Thames Valley. The story of Will Stanton,...
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Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD
Established at the same time as the nascent punk movement in the UK, 2000AD tapped into the same anti-authoritan zeitgeist. It was big, bold, bloody, beautiful and bonkers and for the best part of five...
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Lud-in-the-Mist (radio play)
The prosperous town of Lud-in-the-Mist is situated at the confluence of the rivers Dapple and Dawl on the edge of Faerie. The staid little town, proud of it's rational, traditional and mercantile...
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The Projected Man
Made and released in conjunction with the Peter Cushing movie 'Island of Terror', 'The Projected Man' has scientist Dr Paul Steiner (Bryant Haliday - 'Devil Doll''Tower of Evil') over-reacting to his...
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Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Made in 1987 a long time after the studio's heyday this is an affectionate look at the golden years of Hammer Film Productions - the later TV work is ignored. Featuring some of Hammer's greats...
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Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites
Katy Soar (editor)British Library Tales of the WeirdStanding stones, stone circles, tumps, barrows and ancient clearings still remain across the British Isles, and though their specific significance...
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Don't Get Me Started: What's Wrong With Blasphemy?
This documentary was made by comedian Stewart Lee after far-right fundamentalist Christian groups whipped up a frenzy of protests about 'Jerry Springer: The Opera' that he co-wrote and produced...
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