The Ideal Christmas Present…

…For bikers and people who love trashy movies. Writing a film book is easy. All you have to do is have an original idea, then convince a publisher it’s a good one, then research it, structure it, w…

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The Real Count Dracula

In this article, for Wordsworth Editions, Steve Carver goes back to the origins of the most famous vampire of them all.

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For the Fallen: The Poetry of the First World War

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. (Laurence Binyon – ‘Fo…

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For The Fallen: The Poetry of the First World War

Selected and introduced by Stephen Carver By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell… In 1914, the age of European Imperialism came to its inevitable end, and the Twentieth Century was born in fire and...

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Ainsworth’s Guy Fawkes: Tragic Hero, Catholic Martyr

Remember, remember the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason, why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Nowadays, the image of Guy Fawkes – the man who tried to blow up …

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Biker Horror: 31 Days of Halloween

Because I love motorcycles, horror movies and Halloween I thought I’d make the effort to combine these things this year and embark on one of those 31-day social media challenges. Mine was to find a…

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The Ghost Stories of Vernon Lee

As Halloween swings round again and one’s thoughts inevitably turn to the occult, the supernatural, and the esoteric, it seems like a good time to introduce one of our greatest but nowadays unjustl…

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Ghosts in Old Photographs – A Story for Halloween

A Story for Halloween… ‘Blimey!’ I said, ‘is this you?’ My father raised his glasses and studied the photograph. ‘Yeah,’ he said, ‘that was the Rougham Tree Fayre, ’82 I think. I was eighteen…

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Biker Horror: 31 Days of Halloween

Because I love motorcycles, horror movies and Halloween I thought I’d make the effort to combine these things this year and embark on one of those 31-day social media challenges. Mine was to find a…

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The Ghost Stories of Vernon Lee

As Halloween swings round again and one’s thoughts inevitably turn to the occult, the supernatural, and the esoteric, it seems like a good time to introduce one of our greatest but nowadays unjustl…

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A little place just outside Diss

A ghost story for Halloween… ‘If there is an afterlife,’ I remember my mother saying one day, ‘then how come people always look so sad when they die?’ Back then, I wasn’t in a position to ans…

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A Dead Good Read — Just in time for Halloween, Martin Devenney reviews three new books from the Wordsworth Editions Tales of Mystery and Supernatural Series

Outsideleft.com — A Dead Good Read

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Ghosts in Old Photographs – A Story for Halloween

A Story for Halloween… ‘Blimey!’ I said, ‘is this you?’ My father raised his glasses and studied the photograph. ‘Yeah,’ he said, ‘that was the Rougham Tree Fayre, ’82 I think. I was eighteen…

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Hell On Wheels: A History of Biker Movies

From Marlon Brando’s brooding leather-clad rebel in The Wild One to the dusty apocalypse of Mad Max and Furiosa, biker movies have roared across the…

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