Category: Geek School

The odd sense of déjà vu, the familiarity of events which have not yet happened, the mind convinced “I have been here before” as J B Priestley put

Houses gather a reputation over time; conceived and built to the design of the domineering eccentric Hugh Crain as a home for his family, Hill House was never

“It would be vain my attempting to tell you the horror with which, even now, I recall the occurrence of that night.” So wrote Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The sun rises and sets, the world turns and people age and die, but the undead persist, principal among their hierarchy the vampires: previewed at a themed costume

London, the cusp of what was to be the bitterly cold winter of 1962 to 1963, and Hugo Barrett arrives at the Knightsbridge address of his potential employer,

The instructions are precise, the contractor is anonymous, and the coast will be clear at the appointed time, Friday night, the owner of the house elsewhere as the

With a typhoon moving towards the Japanese mainland, the crew of the Genyo-Maru II are caught between that immediate threat and the danger of Infant Island, irradiated and

A disembodied head floats across a field of stars in which is suspended a planet, shadowed, lonely and barren; a lucid dreamer, open-eyed, his name is Henry Spencer,

The Highlands of Scotland, the serene home of mountains and forests, of glorious sunsets and clear rivers and monstrous flesh-eating midges, now become host to a squad of

A pioneer of early film and of science fiction, and also of trick photography and special effects which have remained so central to the cinematic illusions of that