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The Clifton House Mystery
The haunted house… where to begin? Two seconds ago you read the words ‘haunted house’ and already your brain has processed the thousands of cultural references to haunted houses you’ve absorbed in...
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The Watch House
Revisiting the Watch House was supposed to provide some form of catharsis for me. On the 7th December 1988 I watched the original broadcast of the first episode and about twenty minutes in became so...
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Come Back Lucy
Where would children’s supernatural drama be without posh girls with dead parents sent away to live with relatives they’ve never met, eh? I’m fairly sure there must have been at some point a small...
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The Children of Green Knowe
“I wondered whose face it would be out of all the faces I’ve known…they always come back.” So says Mrs Oldknow on first clapping eyes on young master Toseland, who is henceforth known as Tolly to...
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Penelope Lively
I’ve not watched a whole bunch of kids TV lately. You hear yourself telling some confused inebriate at a party you’re interested in the supernatural, mythological and metaphysical in children’s...
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