Horror

In a manor of shrieking

One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA

On Radio
Getting the creeps

How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?

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Why can’t there be more vampires?

Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place

On Opera
A night of spectacle and special effects

Stranger Things: The First Shadow designers aren’t afraid to raid the treasure trove

On Theatre
The Pan Book of Horror Stories: top-drawer gore

Their lurid covers were catnip to bloodthirsty, impressionable teenagers

Sacred Cows
What happened to horror films?

Watery idealism is robbing the genre of its fear

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Ghosts of Christmas past

Why Brits love their yuletide horror

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The monster that lurks within us

The enduring popularity of fantasy and horror fiction proves that we still live in the long, dark shadow of the Gothic novel

Features
The rise of meta-horror

In 2022, a new Scream film must face down more than monsters

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Our deepest, darkest fears

The transgressive, transmedial and transnational nature of the Gothic genre

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