Creating a monster

This is a history of margins and fringes – not only of the Atlantic Ocean itself, but also of the imaginations of those who worked on its surface and lived at its edges. In his new book, Karl Bell dra

AFRICAN FOLKLORE

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

Weather deities, magical portals, earth-moving giants and haunted valleys – Britain’s mountains are humming with myth, magic and mystery. Hanna Lindon explores upland legends from around the country

So we’re back, for another “celebration of the mysterious, the miraculous and the downright weird” – but does our motorcycle-mad host the Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe have any new tricks up his sleeve in

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