Rachael Severino is a writer from New York. She was awarded her Bachelor's in Classical Archaeology and Literature from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing her MFA at Columbia ...

Rebecca Hall has played supporting roles in high-profile films including The Prestige and Frost/Nixon, but in ghost story The Awakening she is finally unveiled as a formidable leading lady. She stars ...

Have a merry, scary Christmas. To Fire You Come at Last, the first in a new annual tradition of ghost stories for the season, forms the cornerstone of producer Kier-La Janisse’s new box set of global ...

The Great British Baking Show on Netflix was haunted by a terrifying specter of the past during “Meringue Week.” For his Vacherin Glacé Showstopper, Belfast baker Iain Ross channeled another Northern ...

A “wonderfully learned, gossipy and instructive” history of British embassies: In 1612, “a genial British diplomat, Sir Henry Wotton, got into trouble for defining an ambassador as an honest man who ...

Developer Friday Sundae revealed an eye-catching new game, There Are No Ghosts At the Grand, during the 2025 Xbox Games Showcase. The project, set to launch in 2026 on Xbox and PC, is one part part ...

A 'wine snob ghost' has reportedly set up home in a Birmingham pub. Corky is believed to be the spirit of a man who died on the site of the Court Oak pub in Harborne, back when it was a 17th century ...

Empty and all but unknown, ghost trains are one of British transport’s strangest quirks. Why do they exist? To find out, Amanda Ruggeri gets on board. This story is part of BBC Future’s “Best of 2015” ...