In this extended interview with Marisa Linton, you'll find yourself plunging into the world of the Edwardian era London, Oxford and Yorkshire where occult forces, supernatural menace, and secret societies lurk around every corner. Dr. Linton's novel Circle of Shadows channels such writers as M.R. James and Algernon Blackwood. But here's the twist (or one of them!); Marisa's fiction has turned the world of Edwardian horror inside out. Her protagonist, Evie Winstanley, is young, and a woman, and the malignity she battles is at the very heart of Britain's most lauded patriarchal institutions.

Back to the haunted summer of 1816 at the Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva. This time we will focus on 19-year-old Mary Godwin, soon-to-be Shelley. How does she come to us through the lens of popular culture? We'll examine one impish attempt to fool the censors in 1935, and the extravagant imaginations of Ken Russell and Stephen Volk in 1986. Enjoy!

Quite possibly the most famous detective story of them all, The Hound of the Baskervilles, has at its centre a ghostly hound. Why has this idea had such resonance for the reading public, for filmmakers and dramatists since the story's emergence in 1902? We'll take a look at Arthur Conan Doyle's story, his influences, and the underlying legends of avenging hell hounds such as Black Shuck.