There's no better moment to remember how Christmas, its precursor Yule and the Celtic Midwinter events in general feature in horror fiction.

We all know the famous line from Philip Larkin's poem 'They f*ck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do'.

The English proverb 'Old Sins Cast Long Shadows' could easily serve as a motto for the fantasy novels of David Gemmell.

The genius of Emily Brontë's only novel is reason enough to dive right in, but I've been mulling over why it's such a wonderful ghost story.

Netflix have gone for costume drama recently in a big way, and with considerable success.

I began to realise that there are so many amazing sigils from real families. Many of them are far stranger than anything in fiction.

Food and drink feature prominently in the stories of two of our best-loved horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe and HP Lovecraft.