The UK Ghost Story Festival at The Museum of Making Derby

Expect three days of spooky and supernatural interviews, talks, writing workshops, panels, book shopping and more, from an incredible line-up of writing and speaking talent.

14 -16 February - Online

21 -23 February - Museum of Making

Featuring

Rosie Andrews was born and grew up in Liverpool, the third of twelve children. She studied History at Cambridge before becoming an English teacher. Her debut novel, The Leviathan, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller, going on to become one of the bestselling debut hardbacks of 2022, and has been shortlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, the HWA Debut Crown Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Fiction. She lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and daughter. Photo: Sally Masson.

Evelyn Hollow is a Scottish parapsychologist & writer. Featured in award winning BBC radio shows such as; Uncanny, The Witch Farm, and The Battersea Poltergeist. She also appears in several TV shows — Spooked Scotland, Spooked Ireland, and Uncanny. Her first book, Atlas of Paranormal Places, is out now worldwide, published by Ivy Press / Quarto.

Mark Norman is an author and folklorist based in Devon. He is the curator of The Folklore Library and Archive and the creator and host of The Folklore Podcast, which has been running for eight years and is ranked in the top 0.5% of podcasts in its genre worldwide, with almost two million downloads to date.

Mark’s books include the full-length study of ghostly dogs, Black Dog Folklore, Telling the Bees and other Customs, Amazon #1 bestselling Dark Folklore (with his wife Tracey), The Folklore of Devon and The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts (with Dr Delyth Badder). His eagerly-anticipated book Zoinks: The Spooky Folklore of Scooby-Doo was published in 2024.

Edward Parnell is the author of the narrative non-fiction Ghostland (Harper Collins), shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley 2020 Award for memoir. He lives in a medieval market town in the east of England and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. He has been the recipient of an Escalator Award from the National Centre for Writing and a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship. The Listeners (2014) was his first novel and was the winner of the Rethink New Novels Prize. He recently edited the book Eiree East Anglia – Fearful Tales of Field and Fen.

Susan Stokes-Chapman was born in 1985 and grew up in the historic Georgian city of Lichfield, Staffordshire. She studied for four years at Aberystwyth University, graduating with a BA in Education & English Literature and an MA in Creative Writing. Her debut novel, Pandora, became an instant Sunday Times number-one bestseller. She lives in North Wales.

And many more…

Events are suitable for those aged 18 and over.

Booking details vary, please check each individual event or purchase a day/weekend pass.