• The Perfect Playlist for Fright Night!

    Halloween season is official here! Who doesn’t love a good scary movie, an unlimited number of treats and playing the odd trick or two? Whether you’re throwing your first Halloween bash or simply just wanting to get in the spooky spirit, I’ve found and listed 15 tunes (and my...
  • Event Review: Screamfest

    Situated in Staffordshire at the National Forest Adventure Farm, Screamfest is a scare park which welcomes over 22,000 visitors every year for a night of horror and laughter in equal measure. With five scares to experience, Impact were invited to the preview night to see what all the fuss was...
  • Creative Corner showcase: ‘Darkness and light’

    Now the days are getting colder and darker earlier, this month’s theme explores darkness and light. Our poets have explored a variety of interpretations- from spooky Halloween-esque poems to different kinds of darkness.
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  • Arts Feature: A History of Witchcraft in the UK

    Amongst the most common Halloween costume characters, zombies, vampires, ghosts… there is one that remains triumphant: the witch. But where does this fascination with witchcraft come from? Made punishable by death in the UK in 1542 under the reign of King Henry VIII, witchcraft was a crime leading to...
  • Creative Corner- ‘Supernatural’ Showcase

    In light of recent spooky holidays *cough cough Halloween* this months showcase focuses on the macabre, unearthly and most of all The Supernatural! Witching Hour   This existence as a fatigued ghost- each waking moment an aching darkness.   Lauren Winson   Purgatory   I tiptoe through the graveyard...
  • What makes Stephen King’s ‘IT’ scary?

    In 1957, 5-year-old Georgie Denbrough looks for his paper boat that has fallen inside of a storm drain in a street in the town of Derry, Maine. Inside the dark, he is faced with a pair of shining yellow eyes, a face covered in circus makeup, one hand holding...
  • Creative Corner: What the Robin Saw

    At the end of October-month skeletons dance on the graves of our mothers and fathers. They rise to the call of the night and bring out their buried fiddles to play a jig. Only Red Jack Robin, little Jack they call him who perches on the branches of the...