FIVE-STAR FRIGHTS NOT TO BE MISSED

SFX’s time machine hurls us back to a random month once again

How many of your favourite scary movies may have inspired fiction to become reality? We investigate…

John Blair Killing the Dead Vampire epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World 536pp. Princeton University Press. £30 (US $35). A dead body, as anyone who has sat with one will know, is an unsettling

OUR TOP FIVE PICKS OF THE WEEK

Do you like scary movies? Then you should score highly. If not… well, let’s just say we have a loved one gaffer-taped to a chair