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Stephen J Carver

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Author & old school biker. General Editor of Wordsworth Editions 'Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural' series. Author of forthcoming book 'Hell on Wheels: The History of Biker Movies 1953-2023.

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My Top Ten Ghost Stories A new post for the Wordsworth Editions blog for Halloween… I think ghost stories are ingrained in all of us. It’s one of our ways of coming to terms with death. In my case, my late mother was…

My Top Ten Ghost Stories for #Halloween 👻🎃☠️🕷️ stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/m... #ghosts #ghoststories #paranormal #supernatural #reading

31.10.2025 11:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Biker Horror: 31 Days of Halloween Because I love motorcycles, horror movies and Halloween I thought I’d make the effort to combine these things this year and embark on one of those 31-day social media challenges. Mine was to find a…

I did a #biker #horror #film every day for #Halloween and here they all are! (Doing the last one tonight in family horror marathon.) Happy Halloween! 👻💀🎃🕷️ talesfromaratbiker.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/b...

31.10.2025 09:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I made it! #Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 31: Bigfoot returns in James Bickert’s Frankenstein Created Bikers (2016). Happy Halloween! #31daysofhalloween #Film

31.10.2025 07:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 30: ‘Get the girl. Save the day…’ Resurrection and revenge in Jeremy Garner’s All Hell Breaks Loose (2014). #31daysofhalloween #motorcycles #Film

30.10.2025 17:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 29: Your mind will be violated in James Bickert’s Dear God No! (2011). #31daysofhalloween #Film

29.10.2025 17:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Released today in 1978. "Do they owe us a living? - 'Course they facking do!" #Crass #Punk #OTD

29.10.2025 14:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 28: Rebel Without a Cause meets The Evil Dead in The Butcher Brothers’ The Violent Kind (2010). #31daysofhalloween

28.10.2025 16:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rest in Peace Prunella Scales...

28.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Released today in 1977. Good times... #punk #SexPistols

28.10.2025 10:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 27: Horror legend Adrienne Barbeau’s a Harley-riding demon hunter and all-round badass in Mike Mendez’s The Convent (2000). #31daysofhalloween

27.10.2025 16:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stephen’s Top Ten Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories Ready for Halloween? Dr Stephen Carver, the editor of our Mystery & Supernatural series, picks some of his favourite classic ghost stories.

My Top Ten Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories. #ghosts #supernatural #paranormal #ghoststories #halloween #sundayblogs 👻💀🎃🕷️ wordsworth-editions.com/stephens-top...

26.10.2025 18:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 26: Vets, draft-dodgers, and outlaw bikers meet the family and things go pretty much as you’d expect in Jonathan Liebesman’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006). #31daysofhalloween

26.10.2025 17:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Parent’s Guide to Halloween Films for Children I’ve been meaning to write this for years… As Halloween descends once more upon us, our 12-year-old son is horse-trading over what horror movies we’re going to let him see this year. Th…

A Parent's Guide to Halloween Films for Children 👻💀🕷️#Halloween #HalloweenFilms #Halloweenfilmsforchildren #horror #parenting stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/a...

25.10.2025 13:02 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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‘His curse became his power…’ #Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 25: Nicholas Cage as Johnny Blaze and Peter Fonda as the Devil in Mark Steven Johnson’s Ghost Rider (2007). #31daysofhalloween

25.10.2025 15:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Parent’s Guide to Halloween Films for Children I’ve been meaning to write this for years… As Halloween descends once more upon us, our 12-year-old son is horse-trading over what horror movies we’re going to let him see this year. Th…

A Parent's Guide to Halloween Films for Children 👻💀🕷️#Halloween #HalloweenFilms #Halloweenfilmsforchildren #horror #parenting stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/a...

25.10.2025 13:02 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Irish Ghost Stories Dr Stephen Carver introduces the latest addition to our Mystery & Supernatural series, Irish Ghost Stories From the Haunted 19th Century

Out in time for #Halloween! Wordsworth Editions' new collection of Irish Ghost Stories - selected and introduced by yours truly. 👻💀🕷️ #reading #paranormal #supernatural #Ireland #GhostStory #IrishGhostStories wordsworth-editions.com/irish-ghost-...

22.10.2025 16:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A Parent’s Guide to Halloween Films for Children I’ve been meaning to write this for years… As Halloween descends once more upon us, our 12-year-old son is horse-trading over what horror movies we’re going to let him see this year. Th…

A Parent's Guide to Halloween Films for Children #Halloween #HalloweenFilms #Halloweenfilmsforchildren #horror #parenting stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/a...

23.10.2025 16:56 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 24: An off-roader on a Honda XR 250R checking out a meteorite – having clearly never seen The Blob – becomes fused to his bike by an alien ‘biomechanical parasite’ in Thomas L. Callaway’s Murdercycle (1999). #31daysofhalloween

24.10.2025 16:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Parent’s Guide to Halloween Films for Children I’ve been meaning to write this for years… As Halloween descends once more upon us, our 12-year-old son is horse-trading over what horror movies we’re going to let him see this year. Th…

A Parent's Guide to Halloween Films for Children #Halloween #HalloweenFilms #Halloweenfilmsforchildren #horror #parenting stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/a...

23.10.2025 16:56 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 23: ‘And they’re normally so reliable.’ Neil Morrissey experiences severe buyer’s remorse with a demoniacally possessed Norton Commando in Dirk Campbell’s I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990). #31daysofhalloween

23.10.2025 16:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Irish Ghost Stories Dr Stephen Carver introduces the latest addition to our Mystery & Supernatural series, Irish Ghost Stories From the Haunted 19th Century

Out in time for #Halloween! Wordsworth Editions' new collection of Irish Ghost Stories - selected and introduced by yours truly. 👻💀🕷️ #reading #paranormal #supernatural #Ireland #GhostStory #IrishGhostStories wordsworth-editions.com/irish-ghost-...

22.10.2025 16:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 22: Tinted-visor terror and genuine American Giallo as a slasher stalks Boston on a Honda XR 125 in Ken Hughes’ Night School (AKA Terror Eyes, 1981). #31daysofhalloween

22.10.2025 16:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I once got to shake Tom Atkins by the hand... What a gent! On this day in 1982: HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH was released. #Halloween #Horror #TomAtkins

22.10.2025 10:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Leather Boys British youth culture in the late Fifties and early Sixties owed a tremendous debt to The Wild One, in much the same way that Elvis had changed everything. And while the low budget outlaw biker mov…

Kitchen sink drama, landmark in queer cinema, and shot at the Ace Cafe! New blog post on The Leather Boys (1964). talesfromaratbiker.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/t...

21.10.2025 17:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 21: ‘Keep up!’ Punky goth #vampires on dirt bikes led by Kiefer Sutherland terrorise Santa Carla in Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys (1987). #31daysofhalloween

21.10.2025 17:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 20: And the hits just keep on coming… An ancient and malevolent force creates a legion of the living dead to reclaim the world in Todd Brunswick’s Biker Zombies from Detroit (2001). ‘Evil never looked so bad!’ #31daysofhalloween

20.10.2025 17:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 19: ‘It’s like the whole town’s turned into zombies, vampires, walking dead, Republicans, ever since they came…’ Hair-removal-related shenanigans at Chez Yvonne in Michael Roush’s ultra-low-budget Hot Wax Zombies on Wheels (1999). #31daysofhalloween

19.10.2025 15:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Parent’s Guide to Halloween Films for Children I’ve been meaning to write this for years… As Halloween descends once more upon us, our 12-year-old son is horse-trading over what horror movies we’re going to let him see this year. Th…

Seems like a good moment to reshare this. Some suggestions on age-appropriate scary movies for your kids and grandkids - or, indeed, great grandkids - this #Halloween... #Horror #Film #Parenting #SundayBlogs stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/a...

12.10.2025 15:20 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 18: Troma’s Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town (1989). It’s exactly what it says on the tin. #31daysofhalloween

18.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 17: Triumph-riding bad boy Kevin Dillon takes over Steve McQueen’s role in Chuck Russell’s 1988 remake of The Blob. #31daysofhalloween

17.10.2025 14:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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