Prof Neil Martin retweeted
As we mentioned in the last issue, December’s Haunted Magazine will be our final issue, marking the end of this chapter as we turn our attention to new projects & ideas for 2027 & beyond. The issue is guest-edited by @danny_robins.
Pre-order:
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Pre-order:
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HAUNTED MAGAZINE: AN UNCANNY ENDING
Saying goodbye to something you love is never easy. Which probably explains why we’ve stretched our final issue across three parts. Even our farewell has felt like we had unfinished business.
As we mentioned in the last issue, December’s e our last, bringing us to the final chapter as we turn our attention to new projects and ideas for 2027 and beyond.
With the magazine selling more copies than ever and reaching more people, choosing to finish now is either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid. Time will tell. But there’s something special about finishing while you’re at the top of your game, with so much to be proud of and so many people to thank.
We’re immensely proud of Haunted and deeply grateful to everyone who has helped it grow. This hasn’t been an easy decision; it’s probably been in the making for 18 months or so, but we have other ideas, projects, and plans we want to bring to life. If we never give them a go, we’ll always wonder what might have been.
For our final chapter, we’re delighted to welcome @danny_robins as guest editor of Issue 50 Part Three. We couldn’t ask for better company as we bring together the strange stories, curiosity, humour and heartfelt moments that have always been part of Haunted.
When we started, we hoped fellow paranormal fans might enjoy a glossy magazine celebrating all things spooky, supernatural and prone to going bump in the night, complete with cheeky—and occasionally shamelessly cheesy—taglines.
We wanted our brilliant writers’ personalities to shine through, with stories that welcomed you in, sparked your curiosity and let you make up your own mind, without feeling you’d opened an academic paper or a rulebook on how to enjoy the paranormal.
What we couldn’t have imagined was how much the people reading it and writing for it would come to mean to us.
Behind every issue are contributors who trusted us with their words, witnesses who shared deeply personal experiences, and readers who kept coming back. Some of you have been here from the beginning. Others have only recently found us. Terrible timing, admittedly, but we’re very glad you’re here.
Thank you for making room for Haunted in your lives. For reading us, recommending us, arguing over the stories and joining in with the nonsense. For being curious enough to consider another possibility, even when we couldn’t give you a tidy answer.
We’ve spent years asking, “Is anybody there?”
You were. And you made it all possible.
This last issue of Haunted celebrates everything we’ve shared. Danny and a wonderful cast of contributors are helping us give Haunted the send-off it deserves. Expect ghosts, spirited debate, a bit of cheek and a few moments that might leave us unusually quiet.
Issue 50 Part Three: AN UNCANNY ENDING is officially out on 1 December. You can pre-order your copy here; it may well sell out.
hauntedmagazineprintshop.com/p/haunted-50-f…
One last issue.
With all our thanks, and the same wonderfully strange spirit.
Paul & Andy
#TeamHaunted
#DontBeNormal - BE PARANORMAL!!
#uncannycommunity
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Thank you to @pressgazette for standing up for investigative journalism and press freedom after it received more than 500 complaints regarding my nomination for this year's British Journalism Awards pressgazette.co.uk/news/awards-no…
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We tried to ask Brandon Herrera some questions about whether he’s an appropriate person to stand for Congress. His team responded by throwing us out.
Meet Brandon Herrera - the Trump-backed MAGA candidate who calls women "c*m trophies".
@lewis_goodall
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*taps the sign*
*again*
**again**
Not an experiment.
*again*
**again**
Not an experiment.
“Stanford prison experiment: why do controversial psychology studies still have such a hold on us?”
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That time of year again! This December, I'm giving a talk at Aarhus University, Denmark, all about....SCENT AND HORROR. Come! I'm sure there will be lots of Christmas markets and everything. But also SCENTS. cc.au.dk/en/recreationa…
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Good.
❗️EXCLUSIVE❗️
Andy Burnham has opened the door to Britain rejoining the EU’s free movement rules, arguing an “honest discussion” about the idea is needed
The PM said the nature of immigration has been “different” since Brexit, with more foreigners moving permanently to the UK rather than returning home
Burnham noted how his father, Roy, an engineer, took advantage of the EU rules in the 1990s to work in Germany
He also said since leaving the bloc Britain has lost access to ‘Eurodac’, an EU database on border crossings
“I think you have to have a very factual, quite evidence-based debate about this,” he said
Burnham made clear staying out of free movement would **not** be a red line for talks (unlike adopting the Euro or rejoining the Schengen Area)
Burnham made the comments to me in one of four interviews conducted during his first 100 days in office. All unpacked in tomorrow’s Sunday Times.
It’s big news. Free movement seen as a key reason why the country voted Brexit in 2016. No PM has made the argument for potentially rejoining since… until now.
(Important to note: Burnham accepts there were ‘very significant challenges’ too with free movement. Hasn’t reached a firm decision yes or no. He continues to mull over ‘options’ for closer EU ties)
KEY BURNHAM QUOTE
“Freedom of movement had very significant challenges associated with it and I spoke about them in my previous time in Parliament. But, at the same time, it was a type of immigration that perhaps wasn’t as difficult (as now).
“Revolving door migration where people would come and then go back is different. The balance of migration has changed, hasn’t it, since then? I think we’ve just got to have an honest discussion about those things.”
Read the full story here:
‘Andy Burnham is open to adopting EU free movement’
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Prof Neil Martin retweeted
You misspelled “Russia”.
What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that there is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people.
The former have grown very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, while the latter’s children are conscripted to die in trenches.
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Happy publication day to @andrewhankinson and Felled.
I rarely re-read books I've copy-edited, but this is so brilliantly absorbing I was keen to return to it. And I know I will again and again. Tremendous cover too.
I rarely re-read books I've copy-edited, but this is so brilliantly absorbing I was keen to return to it. And I know I will again and again. Tremendous cover too.
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It's only blooming @russandchips !
A man released from prison for a murder he insists he did not commit returns to the place where everything went wrong in ‘The Cull’, a new British independent horror film that will premiere at Tubi FrightFest Halloween on 30 October. lovehorror.co.uk/horror-news/10… #movies
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I wrote about Craig's last film, Protein, here. He is terrific. gneilmartin.substack.com/p/day-3-at-fri…
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Short read: yes.
Long read: The Elsevier journal Stoten has recently retracted 161 papers, many of them over concerns about conflicts of interest and the addition of authors late in the review stage. But can editors who are handling hundreds of papers a year be expected to keep oversight of such rs need to design better systems? @JohnRoss49 reports #research #retractions
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