This collection of writings by Mark Fisher author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures in the work of David Peace John Le Carre Christopher Nolan Joy Division Burial & many others ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Whether you&re rich or poor you&re not leaving the forest Actors Martin Thon Ramona Kuen Kai Borchardt Dennis Zachmann Kane Hodder Tom Savini Claude-Oliver Rudolph Anika Neubauer Prashant Prabhakar Andrea Glowig Oliver Krekel Dave Kaufmann Erich Amerkamp Amrita Cheema & Yvo Rene Scharf Director Oliver Krekel Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 35 minutes (approx) ...

Spaniards are reputed to be amongst Europe's most forthright people So why have they kept silent about the terrors of their Civil War & the rule of General Franco? This apparent 'pact of forgetting' inspired writer Giles Tremlett to embark on a journey around Spain & its history He found the ghosts of Spain everywhere almost always arguing Who caused the Civil War? Why do Basque terrorists kill? Why do Catalans hate Madrid? Did the Islamist bombers who killed 190 people in 2004 dream of a return to Spain's Moorish past? Tremlett's curiosity led him down some strange & colourful byroads & brought him unexpected insights into the Spanish character ...

Storyteller James Cameron & a team of experts using state-of-the-art technology takes us on a journey to the resting place of the ill-fated ship the Titanic where nearly one thousand five hundred people lost their lives almost a hundred years ago ...

On 11 March 2011 a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan Ghosts of the Tsunami is a classic of literary non-fiction a heart-breaking & intimate account of an epic tragedy told through the personal accounts of those who lived through it 304 pages Parry Richard Lloyd ...

IN the Victorian era sensational ghost stories were headline news Spine-chilling reports of two-headed phantoms murdered knights & spectral locomotives filled the pages of the press Spirits communicated with the living at dark seances forced terrified families to flee their homes & caused superstitious workers to down their tools at the haunted mines This book contains more than fifty hair-raising
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- real life accounts from Wales dating from 1837 to 1901 Unearthed from newspaper archives they include chilling prophecies from beyond the grave poltergeists terrorising the industrial communities & more than a few ingenious hoaxes along the way

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This is Anne Bradford's ninth collection of true ghost stories from the Worcestershire area she has been collecting eye-witness accounts of strange events since 1992 when she was inspired by a Victorian collection of ghost stories in the archives of her local library ...

A lost hat a free lunch a bullied schoolgirl a piano that plays itself an old man's secret a downtrodden wife's revenge
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The BBC broadcast &GHOSTWATCH& on the 31st of October 1992 It seemed to be a live broadcast which was a cross between Crimewatch & the movie Poltergeist The programme terrified Britain & caused outrage in the press It&s legacy lives on cited as an inspiration for & The Blair Witch Project& & Derren Brown&s && The Seance& GHOSTWATCH is regarded as a classic of the genre & remains as relevant as terrifying & as inspirational today Sarah Greene & Craig Charles report from a reputedly haunted North London council house for the outside broadcast whilst Michael Parkinson & Mike Smith stay in the warmth & &safety& of a BBC studio The Early family are allegedly being harrassed by the ghost & Pipes&- so named as his banging & crashing were initially attributed to bad plumbing After a deliberately slow start the crescendo sees children speaking in tongues Sarah Greene sent to her doom & Michael Parkinson possessed by an evil spirit Although pure fiction the masterly combination of great scripting intuitive direction & perfect casting made the supernatural pastiche appear frighteningly real Despite being part of BBC Drama&s Screen One series the presence of Michael Parkinson convinced thousands of people it was real The drama caused an uproar & was banned from repeat transmission for over a decade ...

Winner of the Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize A magnificent achievement & an engrossing experience David Mitchell's first novel announced the arrival of one of the most exciting writers of the twenty-first century An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro but what links him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? Or to a Mongolian gangster a woman on a holy mountain who talks to a tree & a late night New York DJset at the fugitive edges of Asia & Europe Ghostwritten weaves together a host of characters their interconnected destinies determined by the inescapable forces of cause & effect ...