General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast

1. Episode · Aug 21, 2026

   7 - Horror Express (1972) (opens the original)

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   Horror Express - or Pánico en el Transiberiano translated as Panic on the Trans-Siberian, is an English language Spanish science fiction horror film loosely based on the novella Who Goes There? (also a basis for the Thing From Another World, which was in turn was remade as the classic The Thing by John Carpenter.) The film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, with Alberto de Mendoza, Silvia Tortosa, Julio Peña, George Rigaud and Ángel del Pozo in supporting roles, and Telly Savalas in a gues

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2. Episode · Jul 8, 2026

   Book Club 01 - Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley (with Ray Newman) (opens the original)

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   Welcome to the very first episode of the General Witchfinders Book Club – a new spin-off from our regular British horror podcast, run in partnership with Teasel & Skylark , an independent bookshop in Dorchester. To accompany our real-life, face-to-face book club meet-ups, host Ross Cleaver invites a special guest co-host onto the show every two months to discuss our latest reading choice. On this inaugural episode, Ross welcomes author Ray Newman. Ray is the author of the novel The Grave Digger

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