Tag: Ghosts

Welcome to My Nightmare! Or is it Welcome to Ghost Mansion with Alice Cooper Leading the Charge?

Finding tenants is easy when you welcome the dead. Getting them to pay rent is another matter, and Welcome to Ghost Mansion turns that predicament into a spooky, surprisingly sweet comedy.

Welcome to Ghost Mansion Manga Cover
Available to purchase on Amazon USA (Volumes One to Three)

Titan Manga

If Welcome to Ghost Mansion (訳アリ心霊マンション, Wakeari Shinrei Manshon) ever happens to get an animated adaptation, I can imagine it being something like Maison Ikkoku. Although the setups differ, there are some amusing parallels: the building is a worn-down apartment complex whose residents are hardly conventional. They are spirits! The resident manager, Kaoru Shinonome, is hardly fazed by that, and rather than try to convince the living to share the space with the undead, her advertising welcomes spirits who need a place to stay. No, this story isn’t Hotel Transylvania. There’s no young daughter coming of age here, but there is a family gradually coming together.

There’s no big threat yet, but across the three volumes released so far in English, I’m finding that this supernatural comedy has room to grow. In fact, the original Japanese edition is still ongoing as of October 2026, with six volumes, and the English publisher is moving quickly to get the first four volumes out this year. The other two may well be planned for later in 2027 to keep pace.

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Never Be Alone, Especially Never After Dark, In This Eerie Thriller

The trick of saying, “I won’t do this, especially Never After Dark” can be a loaded response. In this film’s case, what’s presented hints at all those things lurking nearby rather than hiding in the shadows….

Never After DarkMagnolia Pictures
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As I kick off October with some more horror films to view at night, Dave Boyle’s latest film, Never After Dark, tries its best to show that this writer/director has an overwhelming interest in the supernatural side of Japan. Although he isn’t of Asian or Japanese ancestry, his movies offer his interpretation rather than follow what’s established. The main character is not an onmyoji. There is no Western equivalent to the diverse skills required to become such a person. In some ways, a person with the skills of a priest, diviner and seer can be labelled as such.

With his latest, once that light dims, secrets will come crawling out of nowhere. In this film’s case, it’s about Airi (Moeka Hoshi), a medium trying to keep those skeletons in her own closet locked up. She’s not a certified one and is self-professed after discovering she can see her dead sister in mirrors. And to have that access around while going out to solve other people’s problems can be helpful and dangerous. When she’s a magnet for the deceased, anyone can come calling. 

When she’s hired by the owner of a fancy, out-of-the-way hotel to clear out those ghosts, well…

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Titan Manga’s Ghostly Darkness of Kanata Certainly Knows How to Haunt!

A thoughtful and unsettling look at Ghostly Darkness of Kanata, exploring how its eerie artwork and thematic focus on lingering spirits set it apart from Titan Manga’s growing horror catalogue.

Ghostly Darkness of KanataAvailable to purchase on Amazon USA

Titan Manga is not resting as more horror themed works are scheduled for release this year. The editorial team are picky and to give new talents their due is appreciated, especially after reading past works, like Shadows of Kyoto, which is self contained. But with Ghostly Darkness of Kanata (幽闇のカナタ), what it sets up is perhaps more to come. What I adore most is how it looks into why some spirits choose to remain on Earth rather than move on.

I also love how they are depicted. I’m sure Noct Koike (writer) and Chika Ishikawa (artist) had to come to an agreement over respecting traditional depictions, like not having visible feet, and considering how spirits appear to others. The artist’s work mirrors what I’ve experienced when investigating the unknown. Some spirits look like projections pulled from dirty celluloid film.

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Chasing Shadows: The Hunt for Ghosts from Curiosity to Credibility (Part Two)

From Crookes’s laboratory séances to Harry Price’s haunted investigations, explore how the hunt for ghosts evolved from curiosity to credibility—and what it reveals about the living.

The Hunt for Ghosts is OnWhen people today venture into haunted houses with cameras, EMF meters, and recorders, they’re unknowingly continuing a tradition that began over a century ago. The hunt for ghosts may look modern, but its roots trace back to figures more grounded and genuine than many of today’s TV personalities—people like John Zaffis and Jason Hawes, who carry a lineage that reaches further back to scholars and spiritualists. There was no such thing as a paranormal pop star then; there were only those who genuinely wanted to understand and not trick a generation.

Yet the modern scene rarely mentions the foundations laid by Sir William Crookes and Harry Price. Today’s investigators might name-drop Edison or Tesla for their “ghost phone” and “spirit radio”—devices meant to pull voices from the aether—but communication is more than asking for a yes or no.

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The History Behind the Hunt for Ghosts: A Timeless Journey Through Belief (Part One)

A look at how humanity’s fascination with ghosts evolved from ancient myths to Victorian spiritualism. The hunt for ghosts isn’t for everyone, and we consider the contributions of people prior to Crookes and Price laid the groundwork for modern investigative techniques.

The Hunt for GhostsAs Halloween approaches, many folks enjoy a ghostly outing—whether for thrills or to glimpse evidence of something beyond. To go on the hunt for ghosts is a pastime few practice year-round, but when the season is right, more people go chasing after a belief. The old idea October 31 is when the veil is thinnest has roots in Neopagan lore, particularly Samhain, the Celtic festival marking the boundary between the living and the dead. Similar ideas echo in Mexico’s Día de los Muertos, celebrated soon after All Saints’ Day.

Whatever the tradition, humanity’s fascination with the afterlife is ancient. Even in Greek literature, ghosts appear not just as spectres but as participants in moral and mythic storytelling. In The Odyssey (Book 11), Odysseus travels to the underworld and summons shades of the dead to question them—a literal “ghost quest.” Centuries later, during the Victorian era—the golden age of spiritualism—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle developed his own fascination with the supernatural, even though his most famous character never took on such a case.

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Borley Rectory The Awakening – A Terrifying Legend Reimagined

Borley Rectory: The Awakening reimagines England’s most haunted house with gothic flair, terrifying twists, and a chilling tale of spirits and family secrets.

Borley Rectory The AwakeningAvailable now on Digital in the USA and on Digital & DVD in the UK

Although the film Borley Rectory The Awakening changes a few of the events leading up to the first spectral sightings, this film is wonderfully gothic. It’s like a Hammer Film—with all its rich colour design and lavish costumes—mixed into a cocktail of delights that Charles Dickens might have penned in The Pickwick Papers. That’s a drink I’d serve up and sip till dawn! Here, this tale explores what may have occurred when the Bull family first took up residency.

Before that, I must inform readers that I know a fair bit about the true-life account. Reverend Harry Bull asked to build this residence. Prior to its construction, there was only Borley Church; no monastery or convent existed before the clergy house. Only local folklore existed, and that included carriaged deiven by headless drivers. As for what happened at the rectory, I suspect some of the spirits from the much older church followed Harry home! In the film, this old man (Julian Glover) leaves the property to his son Henry (Corneille Dion Williams), who is following in his father’s footsteps.

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