Join us this Hallowe’en weekend at QUAD for three days of talks and author interviews exploring the darker side! Expect plenty of the ghostly and the Gothic, a look at some lost and cult films and much more with All Hallows Haunts – we’ll also have our bookstall full of classic and new favourites throughout the event!

Passes allowing entry to all events are priced at  £50 (standard) & £40 (concessions)

Individual event tickets can be purchased for £7 (standard) & £6 (concessions)

Upcoming Events in This Season

All Hallows Haunts Festival Pass

Talks + Events

Three days of talks and author interviews exploring the darker side!

30 Oct 2026

Clelia McElroy – Monsters in the Attic: The ‘Wicked’ Women of Gothic

Talks + Events

Why are so many women in Gothic fiction locked away, labelled hysterical, or portrayed as monsters?

30 Oct 2026

Author Interview – Alison Littlewood

Talks + Events

One of the most acclaimed authors of Gothic Fiction and ghost stories in modern fiction.

30 Oct 2026

Talk – Bronte Schiltz The Televisual Gothic

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A talk exploring the history of the Televisual Gothic – programming that uses the Gothic to probe the horrors of the television industry.

30 Oct 2026

Talk – Alex Davis Incubus – The Cursed Movie?

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No movie has a better claim to a curse than 1966’s Incubus, an almost-lost folk horror movie with a backstory as grim and fascinating as its main plotline.

30 Oct 2026

Author Interview – Francesca May

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One of the most exciting new talents in Gothic fiction, with rich imagination and exciting reimaginings on show.

31 Oct 2026

Talk – Andrew Graves – Forgotten British Horrors

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Looking at the rich seam of terrifying home-grown productions which are often ignored or forgotten.

31 Oct 2026

Talk – Nick Freeman – Hammer House of Horror

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In 1980, there may only have been 3 TV channels, but on 13 Saturday nights that year, one of them showed Hammer House of Horror, a series of chilling tales that brought witchcraft, Satanism, werewolves and all manner of attendant weirdness into the n…

31 Oct 2026

Author Interview and Book Launch – Tom Mead

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Derby-based is Tom Mead is the author of four popular and acclaimed locked-room mysteries.

31 Oct 2026

Willow Winsham – Pins and Pig Hearts: Witchcraft Protection 101

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From witch bottles to spontaneous human combustion, take a tour through some of history’s weirdest witchcraft deterrents.

1 Nov 2026

Author Interview – Nuzo Onoh

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The ‘Queen of African Horror’, one of the most exciting voices in the genre and a Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award winner.

1 Nov 2026

Peter Naldrett – Spooky Britain

Talks + Events

Discussing some of the most bizarre and supernatural stories from around the country.

1 Nov 2026