Retrospectives

And Now The Screaming Starts!

Amicus

A Retrospective

In this Amicus Productions retrospective, we cover all 24 films from 1965’s Dr Terror’s House of Horrors to the company’s swansong, 1977’s The People That Time Forgot… 

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Retrospectives

Warnings to the Curious:

A Ghost Story for Christmas

A retrospective on the long-running BBC series, essaying every episode from Whistle and I’ll Come to You to Martin’s Close…

A Ghost Story for Christmas – the essays

01/02/2023
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974) November 10, 2020 The Treasure of Abbot Thomas was the first of two A Ghost Story for Christmas episodes to be adapted (or written…
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The Tractate Middoth (2013)

22/11/2020
Mark Gatiss took up the mantle of producing the first BBC A Ghost Story for Christmas for three years with an adaptation of M.R. James' The Tractate Middoth. Paul Lewis…
A Ghost Story for Christmas

Whistle and I’ll Come To You (1968)

08/11/2021
Graham Williamson examines Whistle and I'll Come to You, the unofficial first instalment in the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas series...

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Retrospectives

A celebration of

Stephen Volk

From the terrifying and controversial BBC programme, Ghostwatch, to the exceptional poignancy of a mourning Peter Cushing in Whitstable, Stephen Volk is a master of genre writing. This retrospective explores his work…

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Studio of Screams – a review

30/10/2020
Studio of Screams, an Amicus-style prose portmanteau featuring novellas by several authors, including Stephen Volk, is reviewed for Horrified by Paul Gorman...​
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Coffinmaker’s Blues – a review

30/10/2020
Ally Wilkes reviews Coffinmaker's Blues, an entertaining and timely look at the perils and joys of genre fiction by screenwriter and author, Stephen Volk...

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Retrospectives

The

Ramsey
Campbell

Weekend

A close look at the work of the horror maestro, Ramsey Campbell including reflections on his writing and reviews of several of the author’s novels and short story collections…

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The Man Who Read Campbell

25/09/2021
In this very personal consideration of the work of Ramsey Campbell, Horrified’s Editor-at-Large, John J Johnston, discusses the short stories of the multiple award-winning author, editor, and critic’s extraordinary and…
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[Review] The Searching Dead (The Three Births of Daoloth #1)

15/02/2021
David Allkins reviews The Searching Dead by Ramsey Campbell, a 1950s tale of supernatural dread and the first in his new trilogy The Three Births of Daoloth...
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Ramsey Campbell, Probably

25/09/2021
David Allkins ventures into the vault of Ramsey Campbell’s writing on himself, his work, and other books and creators going back to 1980s Britain...

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