Upcoming Events

Pub Sci: Peer Reviewed Drinking

Wednesday 18th September

The Kings Head, Southwark

The Natural History of the Vampire.

The Vampire has fascinated Western Europe from the early 1700s, but these stories draw on traditions from Eastern European that were a real part of life for a long time before that. Could there be some truth behind vampire myths…? Science, even?

 

 

 

London Fortean Society: ‘Into the Uncanny’

Friday 4th October

Conway Hall

Are ghosts the dead returning from the “undiscovered country” of death, or the product of that equally mysterious location, the human mind? Come and join us with Fortean London at Conway Hall as we try to work it out.

 

 

 

 

 

London Fortean Society: ‘Cannibal Error: A Social History of the Video Nasty’

Friday 21st November

Conway Hall

Moral panic, myth, and the macabre: Video nasties in the 1980s and beyond. Authors David Kerekes and Jennifer Wallis explore how the panic over ‘video nasties’ developed, hosted by Deborah.

 

 

 

 

 

UncannyCon 2024

Sunday 8th December

Royal Festival Hall

The smash-hit, supernatural BBC Radio 4 podcast and BBC TV series comes alive in a day of spine-tingling stories and paranormal activities.