UK Ghost Story Festival 2027 - Sunday Online Pass
Online
Sunday 7th February 2027
UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL ONLINE – SUNDAY PASS
Sunday February 7th 2027, 11am-7:30pm UK time
Online via Google Meet
The UK Ghost Story Festival returns to put the ghost in the machine with its 2027 online event, and you can join us for our final full day with our Sunday Pass! Join us for a lively range of writing workshops, talks and interviews on the day, all exploring the spooky and the supernatural.
Sunday schedule:
10:30am-11:30am
Francine Toon – Interview
Francine’s latest novel Bluff was published in November 2025. Her debut novel, Pine, was a Sunday Times bestseller and No. 1 Times bestseller. It won the 2020 McIlvanney Prize, was shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize, and longlisted for the Highland Book Prize and the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award. Her poetry, written as Francine Elena, has appeared in The Sunday Times, The Best British Poetry 2013 and 2015 anthologies (Salt) and Poetry London, among other places. She lives in London and work at The Novelry.
In this interview, we’ll be discussing Francine’s inspirations, novels, writing process and more.
11:30am-12:00pm
Break
12:00pm-1:00pm
Lyndsey Croal – Workshop – Dark Folklore
Folklore can be notoriously dark, strange and uncanny - perfect fodder for horror authors! Join Lyndsey Croal for a workshop exploring incorporating elements of dark folklore into your fiction. We will explore the top tips and tricks for incorporating folklore into writing, including writing setting and atmosphere, exploring modern themes and fears, and how to make your folklore story unique.
1:00pm-2:00pm
Lunch Break
2:00pm-3:00pm
Leon Craig – Workshop – The Concrete and the Numinous: Places, Objects and Atmosphere
How can descriptions of places and things create an atmosphere that feels uncanny or even unearthly? How do writers of sinister fiction use the concrete world (landscapes, rooms, buildings, objects) to conjure spectrality and dread. We’ll examine how different authors create unsettling atmospheres through precise and/or suggestive description, and consider how apparently inanimate objects can acquire an eerie agency of their own, influencing events or even advancing the plot.
3:00pm-3:30pm
BREAK
3:30pm-4:30pm
John Fraser - Talk - My First Night Alone in a Haunted House
Perhaps we should be honest and admit that most people’s interest in ghosts often comes from a perspective of 'romantic dreamers'. The science and the quest for meaningful connections in Ghost Hunting only come later.
A night in a haunted house is as much about testing one’s own belief system in an intriguing and mystifying and sometimes frightening setting. Proving or disproving the experience is something that only comes later. After all, even Isaac Newton dabbled in 'romantic' alchemy before becoming one heck of a scientist!
John Fraser asks these questions by discussing his first attempt at investigating the paranormal – which by good or bad luck turned into the ultimate archetypical haunted house story.
Fraser did survive the experience and now tries his best to be proper paranormal investigator- but the romance of the subject remains.
4:30pm-5:00pm
Break
5:00pm-6:00pm
Alex Davis – Workshop - A Trip to the Farlands
One of TikTok most secretive and sinister corners, the Farlands are not easy to find – but once you get there it’s a fascinating realm of uneasy atmosphere and analog fear. In this workshop, we’ll be exploring just what the Farlands are and what we can learn from them as writers, as well as taking on a writing exercise inspired by them.
Special thanks to Titan Books for all their support - https://titanbooks.com/
All sessions will be recorded throughout for ticketholders ONLY.
For any queries, email Alex at [email protected]
Sunday February 7th 2027, 11am-7:30pm UK time
Online via Google Meet
The UK Ghost Story Festival returns to put the ghost in the machine with its 2027 online event, and you can join us for our final full day with our Sunday Pass! Join us for a lively range of writing workshops, talks and interviews on the day, all exploring the spooky and the supernatural.
Sunday schedule:
10:30am-11:30am
Francine Toon – Interview
Francine’s latest novel Bluff was published in November 2025. Her debut novel, Pine, was a Sunday Times bestseller and No. 1 Times bestseller. It won the 2020 McIlvanney Prize, was shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize, and longlisted for the Highland Book Prize and the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award. Her poetry, written as Francine Elena, has appeared in The Sunday Times, The Best British Poetry 2013 and 2015 anthologies (Salt) and Poetry London, among other places. She lives in London and work at The Novelry.
In this interview, we’ll be discussing Francine’s inspirations, novels, writing process and more.
11:30am-12:00pm
Break
12:00pm-1:00pm
Lyndsey Croal – Workshop – Dark Folklore
Folklore can be notoriously dark, strange and uncanny - perfect fodder for horror authors! Join Lyndsey Croal for a workshop exploring incorporating elements of dark folklore into your fiction. We will explore the top tips and tricks for incorporating folklore into writing, including writing setting and atmosphere, exploring modern themes and fears, and how to make your folklore story unique.
1:00pm-2:00pm
Lunch Break
2:00pm-3:00pm
Leon Craig – Workshop – The Concrete and the Numinous: Places, Objects and Atmosphere
How can descriptions of places and things create an atmosphere that feels uncanny or even unearthly? How do writers of sinister fiction use the concrete world (landscapes, rooms, buildings, objects) to conjure spectrality and dread. We’ll examine how different authors create unsettling atmospheres through precise and/or suggestive description, and consider how apparently inanimate objects can acquire an eerie agency of their own, influencing events or even advancing the plot.
3:00pm-3:30pm
BREAK
3:30pm-4:30pm
John Fraser - Talk - My First Night Alone in a Haunted House
Perhaps we should be honest and admit that most people’s interest in ghosts often comes from a perspective of 'romantic dreamers'. The science and the quest for meaningful connections in Ghost Hunting only come later.
A night in a haunted house is as much about testing one’s own belief system in an intriguing and mystifying and sometimes frightening setting. Proving or disproving the experience is something that only comes later. After all, even Isaac Newton dabbled in 'romantic' alchemy before becoming one heck of a scientist!
John Fraser asks these questions by discussing his first attempt at investigating the paranormal – which by good or bad luck turned into the ultimate archetypical haunted house story.
Fraser did survive the experience and now tries his best to be proper paranormal investigator- but the romance of the subject remains.
4:30pm-5:00pm
Break
5:00pm-6:00pm
Alex Davis – Workshop - A Trip to the Farlands
One of TikTok most secretive and sinister corners, the Farlands are not easy to find – but once you get there it’s a fascinating realm of uneasy atmosphere and analog fear. In this workshop, we’ll be exploring just what the Farlands are and what we can learn from them as writers, as well as taking on a writing exercise inspired by them.
Special thanks to Titan Books for all their support - https://titanbooks.com/
All sessions will be recorded throughout for ticketholders ONLY.
For any queries, email Alex at [email protected]
Price
Ticket price incl. booking fee
£26.35
