I DON'T BELIEVE IN NO GHOSTS! - A Spectral History of Weird and Uncanny Beings

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  • Brompton Cemetery Chapel

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  • Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
  • Tickets from £12.00
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  • Sat, 30th Oct 2021 @ 13:30 - 15:00
  • 13:30 - 15:00

 Ghosts have haunted literary history from Homer’s Odyssey through Shakespeare and Dickens to MR James and Stephen King. But are ghosts and spooks static or do they evolve? What forbidden, but familiar landscapes do these fearful and uncanny entities roam? Everybody knows the ghost of Hamlet’s father in Hamlet and Banquo in Macbeth, but our ideas of ghosts have changed over time and the phantoms of Shakespeare dwell in a world very different from the eighteenth century gothic ghost which, in turn, haunts a world far removed from the Edwardian spectre. 

Why did our idea of ghosts change so dramatically and what historical and artistic factors made the difference? Join Clive Bloom on a ghost hunt through the ages from Hamlet to psychic researcher Harry Price and from Price to the eerie Neolithic mounds of Britain and the terrors of the uncanny body. Night is almost here! 


Clive Bloom
Clive Bloom is currently Professor in Residence at the Larkin Centre for Poetry and Creative Writing at Hull University. He is the author of many books on popular literature and has been shortlisted for a major prize at the World Fantasy Convention 2021.


Image Credit - A ghost-like figure of Death appears riding on a horse holding a scythe. Reproduction of an etching by Soren Lünd, 1900.. Publci domain - courtesy of the Wellcome Collection

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A Spectral History of Weird and Uncanny Beings


13:30 - 15:00 £12.00

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Brompton Cemetery Chapel, North gate off Old Brompton Road, South gate off Fulham Road, London, SW5 9JE

Nearest Station

West Brompton (Tube)


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JustPark

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A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
This year Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation will be hosting The London Month of the Dead, a series of 36 different events investigating the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents. Events will include a private view of the Museum of London’s bone archive, taxidermy workshops, macabre walking tours and private views and a programme of weekend death salons with talks on subjects ranging from public dissection and body snatching to reincarnation and funereal folklore. Each salon will feature a pair of speakers, authorities in fields such as osteology, forensic pathology and the paranormal, who will offer their own perspectives and insights on mortality in the city. Each year the London Month of the Dead donates 20% of all ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries. In 2017 all of the death salons and concerts will be hosted at the Dissenters and Anglican chapels at Kensal Green. In previous years the month's programme has centered around Brompton Cemetery but the chapel is now undergoing important restoration work, a project the London Month of the Dead is proud to have supported. The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.

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