Horror in the Britcom – One Foot in the Grave: Victor Meldrew’s New Nightmare
A.J. Black explores the macabre lurking within the BBC comedy, One Foot in the Grave, in his series on horror in the Britcom…
Here, you’ll find writing including articles, essays, analyses, retrospectives, insights and love letters to everything British horror television…
A.J. Black explores the macabre lurking within the BBC comedy, One Foot in the Grave, in his series on horror in the Britcom…
Dean Newman explores the BBC’s horrifying 1984 nuclear attack drama, Threads…
David Evans-Powell takes a look at the 1972 anthology series Dead of Night and its particular delight in terrorising the middle-class…
Jon Dear peers westward toward two episodes from 1982-83’s supernatural anthology series, West Country Tales…
Graham Williamson heads back to Halloween 1992 for the BBC’s broadcast of Ghostwatch and examines how Stephen Volk’s ghost story still endures despite only a single airing in almost 30 years…
Graham Williamson explores Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You, the hit BBC series, and finds ‘a recurrent thread of horror imagery around the edges of the show’…
Sophia Adamowicz explores the distinctive blend of the macabre and the mundane in the work of The League of Gentlemen’s long-standing writing and acting partners…
Jon Dear revisits 1995’s Ghosts, the short-lived BBC anthology show set in modern Britain…
Francis Young explores whether the distant past, in and of itself, can be a source of horror, leading to a distinct fear of the past: archaeophobia…
In this personal piece by Jamie Evans, he explores Roddy McDowall in 1969’s Night Gallery, interprets the actor’s performance and the writing of Rod Serling..