Ghost story

Tantalisingly ambiguous – or just plain baffling: Hallow Road reviewed

17 May 2025 9:00 am

An 80-minute film which for almost all of the time features two people in a car mightn’t sound particularly ambitious.…

Urban gothic: I Want to Go Home, But I’m Already There, by Roisin Lanigan, reviewed

12 April 2025 9:00 am

A rented London flat starts to exude hostility and malevolence – or could our impressionable heroine just be imagining it?

The ghosts of academe

15 January 2022 9:00 am

It could be said that the power of a horror story depends on the possibility, however minute, of it being…

Victorian house (image: istock)

Something scary in the attic

21 October 2017 9:00 am

How do you like your ghosts? Supernatural fiction is arguably the hardest to get right. Ideally it should terrify, but…