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Richard Tennant Cooper (artist)
Richard Tennant Cooper (1885-1957) was an obscure British artist whose metaphorical phantasmic paintings show the negative effects of both disease and medical cures on the human body. There is not...
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Shako (comic strip)
“This is no cute and cuddly polar bear. He’s a blizzard of white hot horror, the terror of the frozen wastes, he is SHAKO – and he is death!” Shako was a horror comic strip published in legendary...
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The Vampire (short story collection)
The Vampire is a short story collection, first published in Britain in 1965 by Pan Books. It is an adaptation of a 1960 anthology, I vampiri tra Noi that was published in Italy. The book is...
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The Crypt
The Crypt is a 2014 British 3D horror film written and directed by Mark Murphy. It stars Mark Harris, Natalie Stone, Nicola Posener, Peter Woodward, Charley Mcdougall, Tom Leeper, Lucy Drive, Sabrina...
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Fleshbait (novel)
Fleshbait is a British horror novel, published in 1979 by New English Library. It was written by David Holman and Larry Pryce. Published at the height of the ‘animal attack’ craze that swept British...
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Video Nasties: The Complete Illustrated Checklist [updated]
This is a historical listing of all films that were deemed to be ‘video nasties’ in the UK. Read the story of the ‘video nasties’ here. When horror films began to be seized by police under the 1959...
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The Projected Man
The Projected Man is a 1966 British science fiction horror film starring Bryant Haliday, Norman Wooland, Mary Peach, and Ronald Allen. It was released in the United States by Universal, on a double...
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Scream Inn (board game)
Scream Inn is a horror themed board game, first produced in the UK by Strawberry Fayre from 1974. Scream Inn was a a comic strip that ran in British weekly Shiver and Shake during 1973-74, and this...
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Video Nasty (comic book)
Video Nasty is a six part British comic book series, which began publication in March 2014. The story takes place in 1983, and is a mix of police mystery and horror, set against the back drop of the...
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‘Dark London’ by The Tyburn Tree (album)
The Tyburn Tree are a duo comprised of Soft Cell singer Marc Almond and saxophonist John Harle. On February 24, 2014 the pair released ‘Dark London’ on Sospiro Noir Records. Promotional shots for the...
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House of Whipcord
House of Whipcord, made in 1973 (released April 1974), is one of the most significant British horror films of the 1970s, a bleak, grim and unsavoury slice of cinema that helped signal the end of the...
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The Border Lands
The Border Lands is a 2013 British horror film written and directed by Elliott Goldner and produced by Jen Handorf. It stars Gordon Kennedy, Robin Hill, Aidan McArdle. The film is due for release on...
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House of Mortal Sin (aka The Confessional)
House of Mortal Sin (also known as The Confessional and The Confessional Murders) is a 1975 horror film directed by Pete Walker, and scripted by David McGillivray (House of Whipcord, Satan’s Slave),...
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The Snare
The Snare is a 2014 British horror film written and directed by C.A. Cooper. It stars Eaoifa Forward, Dan Paton, Rachel Warren, Renate Morley. The film is due to be released in the Spring. Plot: Three...
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Spook Train 3D
Spook Train 3D is a 2014 claymation animated British horror film in development by director Lee Hardcastle. The film is currently seeking online funding via Kickstarter and the intention is to shoot...
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Don’t Scream, It’s Only a Movie!
When the horror compilation Terror in the Aisles proved to be an unexpected theatrical hit in 1984, it was unsurprising that several imitations sprung up, and this 1985 British production is probably...
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The Kiss of the Vampire (1962)
The Kiss of the Vampire also known as Kiss of the Vampire and Kiss of Evil, is a 1962 (released 1963) British vampire film made by Hammer Film Productions. The film was directed by Don Sharp and was...
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Moonstalker (aka Predator: The Quietus)
Moonstalker (aka Predator: The Quietus) is a 1986 British horror film directed by Leslie McCarthy from a screenplay by himself and Cliff Tremlow (as Mike Sullivan). Tremlow also stars along with...
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The Pike (novel and aborted feature film)
The Pike is a 1982 British horror novel, published by Hamlyn, written by former bouncer and film library composer Cliff Twemlow. Emerging amidst the glut of nature-strikes-back horror movies and...
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Haunted House Ice Cream
Haunted House ice cream was produced in the UK by Lyons Maid. It first went on sale in July 1973 and cost 4p. A series of badges were also issued to promote the ice cream. The ice cream itself was...
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