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EXCLUSIVE: The novelist Thomas Hardy took photographer Hermann Lea around his beloved Dorset to show him the real-life locations he wrote into his works.

The daylight sacrifice in the folk horror classic The Wicker Man is deeply horrifying. The people of the fictional Summerisle are acting based on a be

A NO budget feature film about Thomas Hardy shot on an iPhone is to receive a big screen premiere.

NO market research would tell you to put ghost stories, horror movies, birdwatching and a personal account of bereavement together to make a successful book. But they are all strands of Ghostland, Edward Parnell’s account of the landscapes and events that haunted Britain’s creators of supernatural tales – along with the things that haunt him. Ed’s brother was an Echo man: Chris Parnell, former chief sub-editor and head of production for the Dorset Echo and the Daily Echo Bournemou...