As the front door opened, a man with dark hair and a wide smile greeted us. Dressed in a grey jacket and trousers, he looked respectable. ‘Have you any rooms, please?’ I asked timidly. ‘Come in,’ he s

Beneath the brightly wrapped gifts lay a grim and heartbreaking discovery

It was a hot day in one of the hottest and most uncomfortable summers of recent years. I was standing in a small upstairs bedroom of a house on the outskirts of a modern estate in the borough of South

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Reading Laura Mauro’s “Japanese Toilet Ghosts” [FT459:30-35], reminded me of a less well known fear in the Western world, which –according to the modern rabbinical Internet resource site TheTorah.com

’Twas the night before Christmas, and a sadistic killer had a twisted tale to tell...