Or, what makes a ghost story frightening
Published at 9:17 pm on December 6th, 2020
Filed under: Artistic.
Keyword noise: ghosts, Christmas, Yuletide, ghost stories, M R James, The Tractate Middoth, O Whistle And I'll Come To You My Lad, Jonathan Miller, Mark Gatiss, television, BBC.
Keyword noise: Farleigh Hungerford, death, burial, coffins, photography, castles, E Nesbit, English Heritage, ghost stories, Hilary Mantel, history, human remains, effigies, crypts, ruin.
Or, a true story of the paranormal from Cornwall
Published at 4:50 pm on October 30th, 2020
Filed under: Dear Diary, The Family.
In which I rant about Being Human’s writers not being able to coherently plot from series to series
Published at 8:44 pm on October 23rd, 2011
Filed under: Media Addict.
Keyword noise: BBC, Being Human, drama, filming, ghost stories, Cymru, Wales, Casnewydd, Newport, television, vampire, werewolf.
In which we suspect that some TV cameras might be taking the train
Published at 5:48 pm on June 17th, 2010
Filed under: Geekery, Media Addict, Trains.
Keyword noise: BBC, Being Human, Bristol, drama, filming, First Great Western, ghost stories, railway, St Philips Marsh, television, Totterdown, trains, vampire, werewolf.
Keyword noise: anachronism, BBC, Cranmore, East Somerset Railway, ghost stories, Great Western Railway, Henry James, literature, Peter Quint, television, The Turn Of The Screw.
In which we consider how “Being Human” ended
Published at 11:53 am on March 15th, 2009
Filed under: Media Addict.
In which we ponder some Being Human world-building issues
Published at 3:25 pm on February 10th, 2009
Filed under: Media Addict.
Keyword noise: BBC, Bedminster, Being Human, Bristol, drama, ghost stories, Redcliffe, television, Totterdown, vampire, Warden Rd, werewolf.
In which we watched Being Human
Published at 12:00 pm on January 27th, 2009
Filed under: Media Addict.
Keyword noise: BBC, Being Human, Bristol, drama, fantasy, ghost stories, review, sitcom, television, Totterdown, vampire, werewolf, Windsor Terrace.