Chat

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The Britannia Bridge carries the A55 and a railway line over which strait? The number next to the clue tells you which line the answer’s in. We’ve put a section in to start you off! There may be two Across answers in one line. Down words fill themsel

PC Gamer

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In The Sims, it’s usually an accident when your inhabitants end up being terrorised by a vengeful spirit. (That, or you’ve entombed the deceased’s ashes in a secret compartment so they can never find peace.) But in 2003’s Ghost Master, it’s precisely

The Australian Women's Weekly

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Leah Swann, 49, was born in Melbourne where she remembers a childhood “full of daydreaming, playing outside, storytelling, drawing and reading”. She was always filling notebooks with stories and says over time “it dawned on me I was a writer”. A volu

Woman's Own

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Evidently, more of us than ever believe in ghosts and aliens. And Robbie Williams is the latest to, er, have the willies put up him, convinced his mansion is haunted. As someone who – in the name of research – has spent way too many nights sitting in

Empire Australasia

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OUT NOW (SBS ON DEMAND) EPISODES VIEWED 4 OF 4 DIRECTOR Shawn Seet CAST Catherine Van-Davies, Ferdinand Hoang, Gabrielle Chan, Bryan Brown PLOT When a malevolent spirit is accidentally freed from his Vietnamese prison on the eve of the Hungry Ghos

Chat It's Fate

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never ever a locations. While I may experience something, other investigators might get nothing and vice versa. I’ve been in places said to be crawling with all manner of spooks and left with nothing but a good night’s sleep – however, I’ve also stay

Chat

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Have you ever seen a ghost? And has your dog? Sounds like a daft question but not according to paranormal investigator Helen and her real-life Scooby-Doo (p30). She says greyhound Bond can communicate with the other side and even teaches us what to l

Chat It's Fate

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What a strange place. The atmosphere was really odd in the woods, certainly different in the day, but this felt almost otherworldly when we were there. The noises and EMF spikes I accept could have natural explanations, but I’ll maintain until the da

Chat It's Fate

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Ye Old Punchbowl Inn in Bridgnorth, Shropshire is haunted by the ghost of a little girl called Jesse, who’s thought to have been murdered by a former landlord back in the 1800s. She’s regularly heard by staff and residents at the pub, crying. The mur

PC Gamer (US Edition)

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In The Sims, it’s usually an accident when your inhabitants end up being terrorized by a vengeful spirit. (That, or you’ve entombed the deceased’s ashes in a secret compartment so they can never find peace.) But in 2003’s Ghost Master, it’s precisely

Chat It's Fate

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At the end of an unassuming street in Wolverhampton, you’ll find a small dirt driveway, surrounded by tall dark trees. This leads to a building dating back to the 1300s, which has had many tenants over the years – some of whom have never left. Strang

Sparkle Buds Magazine

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Once upon a time, a father and son moved into a new house. The local villagers said that the house was haunted, but neither the Father nor son believed in ghosts, and they moved into the house quite happily. The child went downstairs and asked the ma

TIME

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JOHN LANCHESTER’S LAST NOVEL, Capital, published in 2012, was a Dickensian tour of London in the era of global capital—but before crises of xenophobia and worsening climate change came crashing down. The British journalist and novelist’s latest, The

Writing Magazine

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The Friends of Manning’s Pit Saki Short Story Competition 2021 is inviting stories with a spark of wit that relate to wildlife or the countryside. The Manning’s Pit fields in Devon can be seen from the childhood bedroom of the celebrated short story

Chat It's Fate

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I do a meditation class I at my local village hall – a Victorian building that’s rumoured to be haunted. I thought I encountered the ghost when attending my class recently, as I heard a soft ‘whooo’ noise that made me shiver. However, when I looked n

Guardian Weekly

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The difficult experience of feeling stuck between seemingly irreconcilable states is at the core of Chibundu Onuzo’s accomplished third novel. The mixed racial heritage of Sankofa’s fifty-something protagonist, Anna Bain, is the most powerful manifes

PLAY

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FORMAT PS5, PS4 / ETA Q4 2022 PUB ILLFONIC / DEV ILLFONIC PLAYERS 1-5 Ghosties, ghoulies, gunge – this 4v1 multiplayer title has the lot. Hop into Ecto-1 with three Proton-Pack-wielding chums or pass beyond the veil and become the spirit of the part

Watch

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The two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning author turns his attention to the settling of the Northwest Territory in the late 18th century. McCullough focuses on the story of five pioneers, drawing upon their journals and letters to create a thrilling portray

Chat It's Fate

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The UK has more than its fair share of haunted hotels but the Langham Hotel in London possibly boasts the most high-class list of phantoms! Spooks include a man in Victorian dress in room 333, and a ghost wearing military uniform who’s believed to be

The Millions

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The Aspen Words Literary Prize was awarded yesterday to Tayari Jones for An American Marriage, at a ceremony in New York City. The prize, which operates out of the Aspen Institute, awards $35,000 annually to “an influential work of fiction that illum

TIME

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The narrator of Courtney Maum’s third novel, Costalegre, is desperate for her mother’s attention. It’s 1937, and 15-year-old Lara Calaway is moping around the southwestern coast of Mexico. Her mother Leonora, a wealthy modern-art collector, has invit

SFX

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Pick of the paperbacks this month? Perhaps veteran author M John Harrison’s latest, THE SUNKEN LAND BEGINS TO RISE AGAIN ( , out now, Gollancz). An oblique book, concerned with a lack of connection, it follows two Londoners whose lives become tinged

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 442 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Rena Barron Publisher HarperVoyager There’s something comforting about epic fantasy. You know the broad strokes you’re likely to get: protagonist with a destiny, dark lord, invented land w

Literary Hub

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In the 30 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 15 announcement of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC members review the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Tom Beer offers an appreciation of fiction finalist J

The Millions

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This year I read too many wonderful books to name all of them here, but some highlights were: Katie Kitamura’s intoxicating A Separation, which is such a wild and yet disciplined exploration of the idea of the traveler and of grief. Anuk Arudpragasam

Literary Hub

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Mamta Chaudhry arrived at the University of Florida to begin her master’s degree program as a broadcast journalism student. “To people in Florida, Calcutta seemed so exotic, but to me Gainesville was so exotic.” Chaudhry shares her journey from her l

Writing Magazine

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‘We (Anne Forrest and Judy Price), both left school at fifteen with little opportunity for further education until decades later when Judith studied for a BA, and Anne for a Masters, in English Literature with Creative Writing at Wales’ Bangor Univer

The Atlantic

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Highlights from 12 months of interviews with writers about their craft and the authors they love

Country Life

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• Raynham Hall, Norfolk, and Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, are two examples of the scores of reputedly haunted country houses across Britain, many of which are open to the public • The National Trust identifies Blickling Hall (Norfolk), Bucklan

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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She was born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand. She used to be a lawyer but was always writing stories in her spare time, and published her first book almost 20 years ago. She lives in Auckland and is a prolific writer of paranormal romance, sci-fi a