Image: Warner Bros The Shining dir. Stanley Kubrick This Kubrick classic continues to chill our bones even after multiple viewings. A man takes his family with him to spend the winter as caretaker in an isolated […]
Food | Halloween Special – Pumpkin Curry
I’ve passed on the standard witch diet of eye of newt or frogs’ legs for this week and instead intend to persuade you that pumpkins are for more than just carving. Pumpkins come into season […]
News | Stabbed nurse costume causes controversy
A Leeds fancy dress shop has drawn criticism for its window display featuring a mannequin dressed as a stabbed nurse. The Amazing Party Company on Albion Street in Leeds City Centre exhibited the mannequin along […]
Teen jailed for attempted rape of student
An 18 year-old man has been sentenced for the attempted rape of a student. Last Thursday, local teenager Jacob Feldman was sent to jail for three years and eight months by a judge at Leeds […]
Theatre | The Unquiet Dead
3/5 stars November 1 The Carriageworks somestories.co.uk Post Halloween night, I headed down to the Carriageworks Theatre to see the spooky one man show, The Unquiet Dead. At first, I was sceptical. Previous one-man performances […]
Hallowe'en: When Did Sexy Become The New Scary?
Wait, why are those girls dressed in suspender tights and bunny ears?
Scrumptious Pumpkin-ness
If you think all you can do with your plump orange friend is get creative with his face and make its soul glow you couldn’t be more wrong. So go buy yourself a pumpkin and […]
Spooky Studio Shoot: Black Magic
In advance of the eerie 31st, our Style Editors got into the spirit of things with a spooky studio shoot.
Books: Halloween Classic of the Week: Trilby by George Du Maurier
Now this is a novel soaked with cultural history. Trilby inspired Leroux’s The Phantom of The Opera, coined the term Svengali, now forever to denote a hypnotic and controlling young gentleman, and turned the […]
Top Five: Creepy Tales for Halloween
Isobel Miller investigates the best books for a haunting Halloween in. The Collector by John Fowles Pre-meditating The Lovely Bones, this is a chilling tale about a lonely man who captures […]
Trick or treat? Crime at Halloween
It’s that time of year again: students are out, en masse, dressed up for another fun night of Halloween debauchery; every corner you turn you’re greeted by another pumpkin or scantily-clad nurse, or run over […]
Consolation
If you are the Halloween equivalent of Scrooge, and if when that fateful evening rolls around you cringe and jerk at the sound of a knock (or a ring if you’re lucky), while presumably watching […]