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“From Hell…” Jack the Ripper at the Movies and on TV
The Ripper (1997) Jack the Ripper. The very name conjures up images of fog-shrouded streets, grisly murder and chirpy, voluptuous Cockney street girls spilling out of East End dens of inequity to meet...
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The Vampires of Venice (Doctor Who TV episode)
“The Vampires of Venice“ is the sixth episode in the fifth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was broadcast on 8 May 2010 on BBC One. It was written by Toby...
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The Monkey’s Paw (short story)
The Monkey’s Paw is a horror short story, published in England in 1902, by author W. W. Jacobs. The story involves Mr. and Mrs. White and their adult son, Herbert. Sergeant-Major Morris, a friend of...
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Nosferatu (Hugh Cornwell and Robert Williams album)
Nosferatu is a 1979 album by the The Stranglers former lead singer Hugh Cornwell and Robert Williams, who was a drummer in Captain Beefheart‘s Magic Band. The album cover features a still from F.W....
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Zygons (Doctor Who monsters)
The Zygons are a fictional extraterrestrial race in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. They first appeared in the Fourth Doctor serial Terror of the Zygons. The...
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The London Dungeon (competition)
Horrorpedia is offering the chance to win two complimentary tickets to The London Dungeon experience! One of London’s most popular tourist attractions, The London Dungeon recreates various gory and...
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Vampires (television play)
Vampires is a 1979 made-for-television play, broadcast by the BBC as part of their Play For Today strand. Concerning the obsessions of two school boys who suspect their neighbourhood is inhabited by a...
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The Gorbals Vampire (event/urban myth)
The Gorbals Vampire is an all-encompassing term which refers to the events in a Glasgow graveyard in 1954. Reportedly stemming from a 1953 edition of ‘Dark Mysteries’ comic, featuring a story called...
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Rock Band vs Vampires
Rock Band vs Vampires is a 2014 British horror comedy film written and directed by Malcolm Galloway (lead singer/songwriter of rock band Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate). This Clockwork Heart...
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Ho! Ho! Horror! Christmas Terror Movies
Christmas is generally seen as a jolly old time for the whole family – if you are to believe the TV commercials, everyone gets together for huge communal feasts while excited urchins unwrap whatever...
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (novella)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The...
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Phantasmagoria (album by The Damned)
Phantasmagoria (literally, a sequence of haphazardly associative imagery, as seen in dreams or fever) is the sixth album by punk/psychedelic/goth band The Damned, released by MCA Records in July 1985....
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Pocket Chiller Library (comic book)
Pocket Chiller Library was a horror and crime themed small-format digest-size comic book published in the UK between 1971 and 1977 by Top Sellers Ltd, an imprint of Thorpe and Porter. Pocket Chiller...
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Bob Clark (director)
Benjamin ‘Bob’ Clark could have been one of the leading lights of the horror genre after making a series of popular and critically acclaimed shockers during the 1970′s. Yet despite being as prolific...
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Lock Up Your Daughters
Lock Up Your Daughters is a British compilation of clips from American 1940s Bela Lugosi films. It was apparently marketed as the first ‘film quiz’, and had selected bookings in ‘flea-pit’ cinemas...
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The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
The Woman in Black: Angel of Death is a 2014 British horror film directed by Tom Harper from a screenplay by Jon Croker, based on a story by Susan Hill. It stars Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine, Leanne...
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The Hounds of the Baskervilles: Holmesian Horror in Film and TV (article)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories – and the ongoing industry spun off from them – have a curious connection to the horror genre. The image of the master detective, stalking the...
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Frankenstein: The True Story
Frankenstein: The True Story is a 1973 American made-for-television horror film loosely based on the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. It was directed by Jack Smight, and the screenplay was...
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Paul Garner (artist)
Paul Garner is a British artist based in Brighton. Influenced by Mad Magazine, ‘the ghoulish cool of Aurora Glow-in-the-dark model kits. the sneaky allure of late-night horror double bills on the BBC’...
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Storage 24
Storage 24 is a 2012 British sci-fi/horror film, directed by Johannes Roberts (Hellbreeder, Forest of the Damned, F, Roadkill) from a screenplay by himself, Davie Fairbanks, Marc Small, and Noel...
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