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For those looking for a midsummer scream timed summer horror story, at 7.30pm BST I'll be dropping my new horror story 'The Knife Sharpening Man' on youtube narrated and with audio by the fantastic Bazamalam youtube.com/watch?v=P4UB6bYc…

Wow. An incredible day. An honour to view the manuscript of ‘Oh Whistle and I’ll Come To You My Lad’ yesterday. One of the seminal ghost stories of all time, now at @KingsCanterbury Big thanks to Kings for the visit - and great to hang out with @Mummified_Fairy and Prof BC!

The best illustrated version of Martin’s Close I’ve seen. So atmospheric

Ahead of Sleepy Hollow’s 25th Anniversary on 19/11/24 I paid a visit to the vast estate of ‘Culden Faw,’ location of the film’s exterior town shots in Hambleden, Bucks. An incredible place, full of atmosphere and very New York State-esque. Many pheasants, luckily zero horseman…

Have just been on possibly THE WORST ghost tour I’ve ever been on (and I’ve been on a lot) so may have to extend Halloween to December in order to balance things out.

Also looking forward to showing off the stunning illustrations that Brian Coldrick created for Early Haunts on the big screen for my adaptation of ‘The Wild Huntsman’ the very story which inspired Washington Irving’s Sleepy Hollow!

Strange poster I found frozen in black ice on the edge of a ruined town.

Local screaming ghost news...

So a pretty exciting update : I’ve located both the beach and pub locations from the first adaptation of M R James’ ‘Oh Whistle and I’ll Come To You!” Currently working on shooting a short film to cover the locations - took years but worth it

Snapped whilst out on a bus today, the legendary Ingress Abbey in Kent. Thought to be inspiration behind Carfax Abbey in Bram Stokers’ Dracula. Weirdly located amidst a housing estate ( didn’t stop to see if they had a mental asylum attached )