The House On The Table.
England was currently losing eight-nil to Wales. Harry Kane was waddling dementedly round and round in circles. Marcus Rashford had …
Tag Archives: Ghosts
What is afoot at Perceval Landon’s Thurnley Abbey?
[The following contains spoilers.] Perceval Landon’s ghost story “Thurnley Abbey” had first appeared in Raw Edges (1908), his only published …
A Forest Setting: A Ghost Story For Halloween.
In the middle of breakfast, his sister was suddenly pouring her phone under his nose. “Hey brother, look at this!” …
The Meaning and Significance of Theatre Ghosts.
The Edinburgh Fringe has just ended. Countless theatres are being now cleared away, their rows of chairs are being stacked …
Tychy @ the Fringe: Into the Deep.
“Into the Deep” is a new play by Eleanor Boes. It has been brought to the Nicolson Square Greenside by …
Tychy @ the Fringe: Charles Dickens’ The Signalman.
In Charles Dickens’ short story “The Signal-Man” (1866), a railway worker is haunted by a spectre that appears to warn …
Scare Story.
Have you ever lain awake in a hospital ward after midnight? If so, you will recognise the peculiar aura that …
The Prince.
“Oh, a mouse!” These words were so ear-splitting that Renata could not have said what of them had passed her …
Short Story Review: Man-Size In Marble.
[The following contains spoilers.] Two newlyweds have got London out of their hair and down in Kent, about two miles …
Podcast Review: Uncanny.
Is Danny Robins a journalist or something nearer to a faith representative? Is Uncanny, his latest podcast on BBC Sounds, …
Book Review: High Spirits.
It is quite obviously wrong for ghosts to be funny but it is a graver sin when they are harmless. …
TV Review: The Mezzotint.
This Christmas Eve the BBC showed an adaptation of a 1904 short story by M.R. James, about a group of …
Podcast Review: Mirrors.
[The following contains spoilers.] Mirrors is an audiodrama from Texas that is written by Jamie Killen. There are three seasons …
A Scottish Highlands Ghost Story.
[It has become customary for Tychy to publish a ghost story on or around Halloween, but unfortunately the world has …
The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe.
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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