It starts with a funeral: there is a casket and corpse, mourners, finger food and a video presentation from the deceased, followed by a release of gas and

In the early years of the 21st century Earth has arrived at an equilibrium point, with full employment and a stable environment, but there has been a cost,

There is a tradition of privacy in Japanese culture: what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors, but for teacher Shunsuke Kobayashi he is obligated by position

Their name synonymous with horror anthology films, it is easy to forget that Amicus also produced many varied single narrative features of equally dubious quality, among them The

Summer camp and slasher movies, two peculiarly specific American trends which seem to have tangled irrevocably together, largely thanks to Jason Voorhees who seems to extend his shelf

A late night walk for the horror writer R Chetwynd-Hayes, an act of vanity which opens a vein, admiring a book shop which features a prominent window display

It’s fun for all the family at the Midland Mall and T W Bonkers with exclusives appearances by the RoboSanta+, repurposed from military technology and reprogrammed to serve

An illness with no name, of myriad debilitating symptoms but no underlying pathology which can be identified by her doctor, it has blighted the life of children’s fashion

Another cold December and another descent into the catacombs of the British Library for editor Tanya Kirk, lead curator of the archives covering the seventeenth to twentieth centuries,

The spirit of the season having swerved around aspiring romantic novelist Clara, just split from her cheating boyfriend Paul, an invitation from her aunt Marie to spend the