Houses of horror

MARK GATISS INVITES US INTO THE ROOM IN THE TOWER TO TELL US A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS

Dir Chris Stuckmann, US 2025 In cinemas It’s probably fair to say that Shelby Oaks, the directorial debut of YouTuber Chris Stuckmann, which he also wrote and produced, has divided audiences and criti

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

Rachel Powers, 53 , grew up loving the Poltergeist films – a franchise famously rumoured to be subject to a real-life curse. Then the house from the first film started calling to her…

These Spectred Isles

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