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National Folklore Survey, the first in over 60 years, found people aged 25-34 most likely to believe in the paranormal

This is the second part of my list of films – and more specifically some of the scenes – that have always given me the creeps. (Here’s a link to the first part, for those w…

I’ve gone off horror films a bit recently because I’m getting fed up with watching people being tied to chairs and tortured, or young couples being terrorised by sociopathic home…

In 2026, our annual conference will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe’s final, posthumous, publications. An early Gothic writer, Radcliffe was known to some as the ‘…

NB: The BARS deadline is approaching--29 September!! The Singing Bones: Ballads for the Witching Season The Carterhaugh School, four weeks from 4 November, 2025; on line. A fascinating course on the darker folkloric ballads. This is a topic very close to OGOM's research on dark faerie literature, with its conjunction of the Gothic, the folkloric and the liteary! Step into the half-lit world of traditional ballads where fairies steal lovers, ghosts demand revenge, devils make dark bargains, and murderers meet their fates beneath the waning moon. For centuries, these sung stories have carried humanity’s deepest fears and desires – grief, passion, enchantment, and awe – from one generation to the next, one firelit gathering at a time.

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Bloodthirsty ghosts, sadistic supercomputers, creepy childhood games ... Mariana Enríquez, Paul Tremblay, Daisy Johnson and others on the tales that kept them up at night

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