Airing on Christmas Eve on ITV back in 1989, director Herbert Wise's adaptation of Susan Hill's novel The Woman in Black represented the pinnacle of the British tradition of festive ghost stories.

Lots of job seekers have a story about the postings that linger online but never seem to get filled. Those so-called ghost jobs—the roles that companies advertise but have no intention of ...

Unfortunately, this is exactly where the story of Bats - the ghost dog from the Sanctum Sanctorum - begins, as his owner of over a decade dies of a heart attack. This leaves an extremely old dog ...

Eagle-eyed geologist Mark Tingay recently noticed the emergence of a ‘ghost island’ in November of 2024, caused by a submarine mud volcano called Kumani Bank. Satellites show that the island ...

Anthony Albanese has already made his way around Queensland before heading to WA and Tasmania. Peter Dutton soft launched his campaign over the weekend in Victoria. Those itineraries reveal a ...

E. Nesbit’s Man-Size in Marble was the first ghost story I ever read, and it left a profound impression on me. I even referenced it in an episode of Doctor Who which I wrote for Peter Capaldi!

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Eventually, through the generations, telling ghost stories became a facet of everyone’s holiday celebrations. “For a very, very, very long time, [the season] has provoked oral stories about ...

Warning: contains spoilers for “A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone”. The only women in the story are flesh-and-blood Lucy and Mrs Dorman – plus, in Gatiss’ reworking, Edith Nesbit ...

Last year, the timing worked well with Lucy Worsley’s documentary series about Conan Doyle. Man-Size in Marble is the first ghost story I ever read. It scared me to death. But it's short, it's slight.