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A Fear Beyond Fear

A Fear Beyond Fear

By: Paul Butler
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Summary

 Why do we love ghost stories? A fear Beyond Fear will look at literature, stage, film and tv and try to figure out why we keep coming back to this most specialized strand of horror. Why do ghosts scare us? Why do we like being scared? We will journey into this fear, teasing the dark side of immortality. We will explore our fears, rather than our hopes, regarding what may lie beyond the veil. Hosted by author Paul Butler with Jemma Butler. Technical advisor, Coleson Dyck.Paul Butler Art
Episodes
  • Ghost Stories Begging to be Filmed, Part III

    Ghost Stories Begging to be Filmed, Part III
    May 12 2026

    Informed by parapsychology, rich in philosophy and metaphysics, this brilliant 1922 story is also as bloody as Robert Block's Psycho and as disturbing as anything in Poe.

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    14 mins
  • Shifting Trees and Endless Forests: Charis Cotter's Mystery of the Haunted Dance Hall

    Shifting Trees and Endless Forests: Charis Cotter's Mystery of the Haunted Dance Hall
    Apr 28 2026

    The classic ghost story meets delicious nostalgia for 1960s summer camps for children and teens. I talk to acclaimed author Charis Cotter about coming of age ghost stories in general and in particular about The Mystery of the Haunted Dance Hall (Tundra Books) about to be released in paperback.

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    26 mins
  • Fact or Legend: The Wild Man of Orford

    Fact or Legend: The Wild Man of Orford
    Apr 14 2026

    We have talked in recent episodes about fiction which begs to be dramatized. The Twelfth Century half man, half beast caught in a fishing net off England's Suffolk coast is quite possibly a drama from real life. Who was he? Why are the details of this "legend" so precise?

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    11 mins
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