Haunted houses

THIS MONTH

GEAR UP FOR AUTUMN WITH THESE CHILLING TALES OF HAUNTED HOUSES, RIVER SPIRITS AND A ONE-EYED TROLL

Celebrate Roald Dahl Day (13 September) with a quiz about the works of the master storyteller

Chartarumludentist Anthony Wilkins [FT458:63] may wish to visit China. While living there in 2005 I found so many discarded playing cards on the ground that I was able to assemble a unique deck of 52

Ben Machell never believed in the supernatural. But when he started to investigate the work of a renowned parapsychologist, he found himself drawn into a strange new world

Some years back, ghost hunter Steve Parsons remarked to me that we were entering the twilight years of many great ghost hunters, those responsible for re-vitalising the field in the aftermath of World