Stephen J Carver
@drstephencarver.bsky.social
Author & old school biker. General Editor of Wordsworth Editions 'Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural' series. Author of forthcoming book 'Hell on Wheels: The History of Biker Movies 1953-2023.
A family of cannibals and psychos in Surrey... Pete Walker's 1974 proto-slasher Frightmare is truly a British Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Prove me wrong. #horror #HorrorMovies #HorrorFamily
November 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A family of cannibals and psychos in Surrey... Pete Walker's 1974 proto-slasher Frightmare is truly a British Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Prove me wrong. #horror #HorrorMovies #HorrorFamily
'Mind the doors!' I caught this late last night. Haven't seen for years. Forgot how good it was. Like a bridge between British gothic film and modern horror. Donald Pleasence's dogged but drunken detective is a joy. Any fans? #horror #HorrorMovies #HorrorFamily
November 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
'Mind the doors!' I caught this late last night. Haven't seen for years. Forgot how good it was. Like a bridge between British gothic film and modern horror. Donald Pleasence's dogged but drunken detective is a joy. Any fans? #horror #HorrorMovies #HorrorFamily
Isn't it wonderful when you see something you loved as a kid and decades later it's still brilliant? #Frankenstein #FrankensteinTheTrueStory #Horror #Film
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Isn't it wonderful when you see something you loved as a kid and decades later it's still brilliant? #Frankenstein #FrankensteinTheTrueStory #Horror #Film
Five War Poems for Armistice Day. #armisticeday #remembrance #remembranceday #wewillrememberthem #greatwar #lestweforget #poetry #warpoetry wordsworth-editions.com/five-war-poe...
Five War Poets
Five War Poets: Above all else, it is the poetry of the First World War that that has seared the horror of this conflict...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Five War Poems for Armistice Day. #armisticeday #remembrance #remembranceday #wewillrememberthem #greatwar #lestweforget #poetry #warpoetry wordsworth-editions.com/five-war-poe...
I wrote this a few years back now but it still expresses my great love and respect for that generation, and an abiding horror of all war. #RemembranceSunday #RemembranceDay #LestWeForget #poetry #warpoets stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/s...
Somme 100: Reading War Poetry
‘The Soldier’ by Brooke is an instantly recognisable poem. It is one of a collection of sonnets written early in the war, collected under the title of 1914 & Other Poems. These achieved popular…
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November 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I wrote this a few years back now but it still expresses my great love and respect for that generation, and an abiding horror of all war. #RemembranceSunday #RemembranceDay #LestWeForget #poetry #warpoets stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/s...
November 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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My Top Ten Ghost Stories for #Halloween 👻🎃☠️🕷️ stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/m... #ghosts #ghoststories #paranormal #supernatural #reading
My Top Ten Ghost Stories
A new post for the Wordsworth Editions blog for Halloween… I think ghost stories are ingrained in all of us. It’s one of our ways of coming to terms with death. In my case, my late mother was…
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October 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
My Top Ten Ghost Stories for #Halloween 👻🎃☠️🕷️ stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/m... #ghosts #ghoststories #paranormal #supernatural #reading
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I did a #biker #horror #film every day for #Halloween and here they all are! (Doing the last one tonight in family horror marathon.) Happy Halloween! 👻💀🎃🕷️ talesfromaratbiker.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/b...
Biker Horror: 31 Days of Halloween
Because I love motorcycles, horror movies and Halloween I thought I’d make the effort to combine these things this year and embark on one of those 31-day social media challenges. Mine was to find a…
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October 31, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I did a #biker #horror #film every day for #Halloween and here they all are! (Doing the last one tonight in family horror marathon.) Happy Halloween! 👻💀🎃🕷️ talesfromaratbiker.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/b...
My Top Ten Ghost Stories for #Halloween 👻🎃☠️🕷️ stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/m... #ghosts #ghoststories #paranormal #supernatural #reading
My Top Ten Ghost Stories
A new post for the Wordsworth Editions blog for Halloween… I think ghost stories are ingrained in all of us. It’s one of our ways of coming to terms with death. In my case, my late mother was…
stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
My Top Ten Ghost Stories for #Halloween 👻🎃☠️🕷️ stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/m... #ghosts #ghoststories #paranormal #supernatural #reading
I did a #biker #horror #film every day for #Halloween and here they all are! (Doing the last one tonight in family horror marathon.) Happy Halloween! 👻💀🎃🕷️ talesfromaratbiker.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/b...
Biker Horror: 31 Days of Halloween
Because I love motorcycles, horror movies and Halloween I thought I’d make the effort to combine these things this year and embark on one of those 31-day social media challenges. Mine was to find a…
talesfromaratbiker.wordpress.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I did a #biker #horror #film every day for #Halloween and here they all are! (Doing the last one tonight in family horror marathon.) Happy Halloween! 👻💀🎃🕷️ talesfromaratbiker.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/b...
I made it! #Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 31: Bigfoot returns in James Bickert’s Frankenstein Created Bikers (2016). Happy Halloween! #31daysofhalloween #Film
October 31, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I made it! #Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 31: Bigfoot returns in James Bickert’s Frankenstein Created Bikers (2016). Happy Halloween! #31daysofhalloween #Film
#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 30: ‘Get the girl. Save the day…’ Resurrection and revenge in Jeremy Garner’s All Hell Breaks Loose (2014). #31daysofhalloween #motorcycles #Film
October 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 30: ‘Get the girl. Save the day…’ Resurrection and revenge in Jeremy Garner’s All Hell Breaks Loose (2014). #31daysofhalloween #motorcycles #Film
#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 29: Your mind will be violated in James Bickert’s Dear God No! (2011). #31daysofhalloween #Film
October 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 29: Your mind will be violated in James Bickert’s Dear God No! (2011). #31daysofhalloween #Film
October 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 28: Rebel Without a Cause meets The Evil Dead in The Butcher Brothers’ The Violent Kind (2010). #31daysofhalloween
October 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 28: Rebel Without a Cause meets The Evil Dead in The Butcher Brothers’ The Violent Kind (2010). #31daysofhalloween
Rest in Peace Prunella Scales...
October 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Rest in Peace Prunella Scales...
Released today in 1977. Good times... #punk #SexPistols
October 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Released today in 1977. Good times... #punk #SexPistols
#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 27: Horror legend Adrienne Barbeau’s a Harley-riding demon hunter and all-round badass in Mike Mendez’s The Convent (2000). #31daysofhalloween
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 27: Horror legend Adrienne Barbeau’s a Harley-riding demon hunter and all-round badass in Mike Mendez’s The Convent (2000). #31daysofhalloween
My Top Ten Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories. #ghosts #supernatural #paranormal #ghoststories #halloween #sundayblogs 👻💀🎃🕷️ wordsworth-editions.com/stephens-top...
Stephen’s Top Ten Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories
Ready for Halloween? Dr Stephen Carver, the editor of our Mystery & Supernatural series, picks some of his favourite classic ghost stories.
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October 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
My Top Ten Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories. #ghosts #supernatural #paranormal #ghoststories #halloween #sundayblogs 👻💀🎃🕷️ wordsworth-editions.com/stephens-top...
#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 26: Vets, draft-dodgers, and outlaw bikers meet the family and things go pretty much as you’d expect in Jonathan Liebesman’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006). #31daysofhalloween
October 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 26: Vets, draft-dodgers, and outlaw bikers meet the family and things go pretty much as you’d expect in Jonathan Liebesman’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006). #31daysofhalloween
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A Parent's Guide to Halloween Films for Children 👻💀🕷️#Halloween #HalloweenFilms #Halloweenfilmsforchildren #horror #parenting stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/a...
A Parent’s Guide to Halloween Films for Children
I’ve been meaning to write this for years… As Halloween descends once more upon us, our 12-year-old son is horse-trading over what horror movies we’re going to let him see this year. Th…
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October 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A Parent's Guide to Halloween Films for Children 👻💀🕷️#Halloween #HalloweenFilms #Halloweenfilmsforchildren #horror #parenting stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/a...
‘His curse became his power…’ #Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 25: Nicholas Cage as Johnny Blaze and Peter Fonda as the Devil in Mark Steven Johnson’s Ghost Rider (2007). #31daysofhalloween
October 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
‘His curse became his power…’ #Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 25: Nicholas Cage as Johnny Blaze and Peter Fonda as the Devil in Mark Steven Johnson’s Ghost Rider (2007). #31daysofhalloween
A Parent's Guide to Halloween Films for Children 👻💀🕷️#Halloween #HalloweenFilms #Halloweenfilmsforchildren #horror #parenting stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/a...
A Parent’s Guide to Halloween Films for Children
I’ve been meaning to write this for years… As Halloween descends once more upon us, our 12-year-old son is horse-trading over what horror movies we’re going to let him see this year. Th…
stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A Parent's Guide to Halloween Films for Children 👻💀🕷️#Halloween #HalloweenFilms #Halloweenfilmsforchildren #horror #parenting stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/a...
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Out in time for #Halloween! Wordsworth Editions' new collection of Irish Ghost Stories - selected and introduced by yours truly. 👻💀🕷️ #reading #paranormal #supernatural #Ireland #GhostStory #IrishGhostStories wordsworth-editions.com/irish-ghost-...
Irish Ghost Stories
Dr Stephen Carver introduces the latest addition to our Mystery & Supernatural series, Irish Ghost Stories From the Haunted 19th Century
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October 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Out in time for #Halloween! Wordsworth Editions' new collection of Irish Ghost Stories - selected and introduced by yours truly. 👻💀🕷️ #reading #paranormal #supernatural #Ireland #GhostStory #IrishGhostStories wordsworth-editions.com/irish-ghost-...