by Sarah Rayne | Oct 5, 2015 | ancient legends, charect, ghost stories, ghosts, haunted houses, old diaries
The haunted house series, featuring Michael Flint and Nell West, was born several years ago, when I was asked to write and present a ghost-story evening at a local historic house. There were so many legends attached to the place it was almost a question of...
by Sarah Rayne | Sep 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
When, some years ago, an editor commissioned a series for the re-telling of modern fairytales, I had a terrific time writing them, but I saved what I believed to be the best until last. Little Red Riding Hood has to be one of the most famous of all children’s stories,...
by Sarah Rayne | Sep 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s a fact of life that there are times when the shadow can be mightier than the substance. Over ninety years ago the German film-maker F.W. Murnau chilled cinema audiences with the 1922 silent movie, Nosferatu. It’s still chilling people today, and probably the...