At their first meeting, Arthur Conan Doyle and his new brother-in-law, E. W. Hornung, retired from a heavy lunch to sit in Conan Doyle’s...

I heard on the radio that it's only 14 weeks to Christmas. But, more importantly, Hallowe'en is six weeks away - today! And, so, with...

If the past is indeed a foreign country, then - if you visit - you’re going to need some help getting by. On the off-chance you find...

Before writing The Moonstone in 1868, Wilkie Collins first studied the form and narrative techniques of Edgar Allan’s Poe’s C. Auguste...

This is one of an amazing set of postcards from the dawn of the twentieth century that depict what life might be like in the year 2000....

Arthur Conan Doyle was the first person to advance the brilliant theory that Jack the Ripper committed his murders whilst in drag. In...

In 1934, psychic Investigator Harry Price and his ‘National Laboratory of Psychical Research’ took on their most illustrious case — they...

In 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle asked his father - Charles Altamont Doyle - to illustrate his soon-to-be-published novel A Study in Scarlet. ...

The Power Of The Witch is worth a watch even if you are not particularly interested in the occult - rather watch it as a document of its...

The town of Broadstairs in Kent – where much of Conversations with Spirits is set – actually has a number of literary associations. Of...