I’m a huge horror fan. One of my earliest memories is of watching the final act of 1980’s The Fog, through a crack in the living room door when I was far too young. Seeing those ghostly pirates creeping down the aisle of a church and Adrienne Barbeau fleeing to the very roof of a lighthouse to escape the same ghosts has been imprinted in my memory — something I’ll always remember. And as great…

The actress Barbara Shelley, one of the icons of 1950s and 1960s screen horror and described by her agent as the ‘technicolour queen of Hammer,’ has died at the grand age of 88. Considered a great beauty in her day, Shelley appeared in over 100 films and numerous television roles, including Doctor Who and Blake’s 7. As Sorasta in Planet of Fire (1984) Barbara Shelley was born Barbara Kowin on…

It is with sadness then that we have to report that Philip Latham has passed away at the age of 91.

The Five Doctors is a great entry to the Doctor Who canon. The first three Doctors, in various ways, take part as they discover a secret that takes them to the hearts of Time Lord society. None of them could have guessed that President Borusa was the man behind it all. In fact, Philip Latham as…

If you’re a Doctor Who fan who likes a chilling tale, you’ll want to listen to the recent, best-selling release by Bafflegab Productions: Volume 1 of their The Conception of Terror.

It’s a collection of 4 audio dramas, each of which is a liberal reworking of a classic M.R. James short story. If you don’t immediately know the Jamesian strain of understated (though sometimes quite gruesome)…

Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have already lined up their next tantalising project with the news that the pair will return to the literary shelves of their respective childhoods with a mini-series adaptation of Bram Stoker’s seminal horror classic, Dracula. The 1897 Gothic horror novel, told in the epistolary format, tells the story of one man’s struggle to move country. Okay, he also happens to…