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by Stephen Prince (Author)
Exploring the Haunted Airwaves
Before the ubiquity of streaming, British television was a landscape with room for strange experiments, folk-horror nightmares, and "wyrd" transmissions. Today, many of these programmes have vanished from official channels, leaving behind only "ghost signals" a shadowland of terrestrial TV hidden in plain sight across the unmediated and unmarketed corners of the internet.
1. A Ghost Story for Christmas - Whistle and I'll Come to You, The Stalls of Barchester and The Icehouse: A Lineage of Seasonal Hauntings 2. Tales of Unease: Conjuring Half-Hour Worlds of Unsettling Tension and Intrigue 3. Play For Today - The Lonely Man's Lover and Stronger Than the Sun: From the Fields of Non-Horror Folk Horror to Seaside Secret State Cycle Subterfuge 4. Scorpion Tales - The Great Albert: Occult Summonings and Ambiguity in Suburbia 5. The Moon Stallion: A Teatime Layering of Legend and Mythology 6. Leap in the Dark - Jack Be Nimble: Pathways Through Paranormal Powers and Between the Roots of Magic and Glamour 7. The Bells of Astercote: Trapped Forever Guarding the Chalice 8. A Pattern of Roses: Timeslip Echoes and Cold War Controversies 9. Play for Tomorrow - Shades: Escaping from Real World Shadows into Prescient Virtual Worlds 10. Dramarama - Spooky: The Exorcism of Amy: Stepping Into a Fever Dream Nightmare 11. Screen Two - Unfair Exchanges and The Blue Boy: A Multi-Layered Shadowed Whirlwind of Creativity, Paranoia and Fringe Science, A Phantom's Revenge and Roads to Doom 12. Unnatural Causes - Lost Property: A Bubble Edgeland of Quiet Horror 13. ScreenPlay - The Black and Blue Lamp: Metatextual Satire and Preternatural Timeslip to Life on Mars and Back 14. The Plant: Unearthing a Leafy Suburban Invasion Appendix: A Definition of Hauntology, its Recurring Themes and Intertwining with Otherly Folk, Folk Horror and Explorations of a Rural and Urban Wyrd Cultural Landscape "For any self-respecting hauntologist, A Year In The Country is a treasure trove of wyrd delights." Sarah Gregory, Shindig!
Number of Pages: 142
Dimensions: 0.33 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: March 04, 2026
