An Englishman’s Haunt Meets Its Castle: The Old Dark House (1963)
❉ How cult British and American horror makers re-animated a classic – by Ken Shinn.
Articles by Ken Shinn
That Hellbound Train: Dr. Terror’s House Of Horrors (1965)
❉ An appreciation of Amicus’s first anthology, by Ken Shinn.
‘Taste and Decency: The Swizzlewick Story’ reviewed
❉ This is as complete a history as we are ever likely to get of a series that did things that no other show had done before it.
An Appreciation Of ‘The Owl Service’ (1969)
❉ Ken Shinn on the cult series that ushered in a cycle of ITV-broadcast Junior Folk Horror in the ’70s and ’80s.
An eerie tale to tell: ‘Tam Lin’ (1971)
❉ An appreciation of Roddy McDowall’s hallucinatory, sensual Folk Horror.
‘Frankenstein: The True Story’ (1973)
❉ Come up to the lab as Ken Shinn sees what’s on the slab…
Leaving It All Behind… ‘Julie Driscoll: 1969’
❉ Recently reissued by Esoteric, this is an album that can be called positively transformative, writes Ken Shinn.
‘Jaunt: A Viewer’s Guide to The Tomorrow People’
❉ Andy Davidson’s extensive guide to the 1970s sci-fi teen series breaks out in a newly revised and updated form.
Secrets And Truths: ‘The Wallscrawler and Other Stories’ reviewed
❉ ‘Wyatt tells the Truth about the Wallscrawler. About Pex, Kangs, Rezzies, Caretakers. So many others. So many lives. So many secrets.’
The Vapors: ‘Waiting For The Weekend’
❉ This comes recommended to any fans of intelligent, lovingly crafted pop music, writes Ken Shinn.