The We've all had that strange uneasy feeling in the middle of the night like something's not quite as

it should be. You wake up after hearing a strange noise, a tap dripping, a creaky floorboard,

you feel a cold shiver pass over your body as if something just

moved past you. The logical part of your brain tells you it's nothing. It's just a draft

right? But every other fiber of your being is telling you is something else, something unnatural, something unexplainable.

The ghost story is as old as time itself. As human beings we're all afraid of the

unknown and there's nothing more uncertain than what happens to us after we die.

Perhaps this is why over thousands of years the ghost story has been so popular, from stories

told around campfires to classic literature and theatre to radio and television plays and of

course in cinema.

Come play with us.

In horror cinema, many sub-jomres such as the Slasher movie or the zombie movie tend to come and go.

They boom and they decline. But what's interesting about ghost stories on

film is that they are always with us, quiet, omnipresent in the background, ready to send

chills down our spines no matter what age, generation or nationality.

But is there more to the ghost story than just creaky floorboards and clanking chains?

Over the next few months we'll be exploring the evolution of ghosts in horror cinema,

not just from decade to decade, but around the world,

delving into the ghost stories of Gothic Britain, of 80s Reagan America, of war-torn Iran, and of course

modern day Japan.

We'll also be branching out of cinema and exploring the way in which ghosts have

scared countless audiences on the small screen and even on stage.

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