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Tag Archives: Ghost Story

What is afoot at Perceval Landon’s Thurnley Abbey?

February 3, 2023

[The following contains spoilers.] Perceval Landon’s ghost story “Thurnley Abbey” had first appeared in Raw Edges (1908), his only published …

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A Forest Setting: A Ghost Story For Halloween.

October 26, 2022

In the middle of breakfast, his sister was suddenly pouring her phone under his nose. “Hey brother, look at this!” …

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Tychy @ the Fringe: Into the Deep.

August 23, 2022

“Into the Deep” is a new play by Eleanor Boes. It has been brought to the Nicolson Square Greenside by …

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Tychy @ the Fringe: Charles Dickens’ The Signalman.

August 10, 2022

In Charles Dickens’ short story “The Signal-Man” (1866), a railway worker is haunted by a spectre that appears to warn …

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Scare Story.

May 21, 2022

Have you ever lain awake in a hospital ward after midnight? If so, you will recognise the peculiar aura that …

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The Prince.

January 31, 2022

“Oh, a mouse!” These words were so ear-splitting that Renata could not have said what of them had passed her …

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Short Story Review: Man-Size In Marble.

January 27, 2022

[The following contains spoilers.] Two newlyweds have got London out of their hair and down in Kent, about two miles …

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Podcast Review: Uncanny.

January 7, 2022

Is Danny Robins a journalist or something nearer to a faith representative? Is Uncanny, his latest podcast on BBC Sounds, …

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Book Review: High Spirits.

December 27, 2021

It is quite obviously wrong for ghosts to be funny but it is a graver sin when they are harmless. …

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TV Review: The Mezzotint.

December 26, 2021

This Christmas Eve the BBC showed an adaptation of a 1904 short story by M.R. James, about a group of …

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Podcast Review: Mirrors.

December 4, 2021

[The following contains spoilers.] Mirrors is an audiodrama from Texas that is written by Jamie Killen. There are three seasons …

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A Scottish Highlands Ghost Story.

October 31, 2021

[It has become customary for Tychy to publish a ghost story on or around Halloween, but unfortunately the world has …

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The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe.

October 6, 2021

Stacey’s party had been up in that stretch of Dalry that remains fresh and picturesque without yet being visibly gentrified. …

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Book Review: Pine by Francine Toon.

August 8, 2021

[The following contains spoilers.] Pine is a debut novel by Francine Toon (who is otherwise the poet Francine Elena) and …

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Short Story Review: “The Tortoise” by W.F. Harvey.

April 5, 2021

“The Tortoise” is one of the many thoughtful gifts within William Fryer Harvey’s first collection of short fiction, Midnight House …

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