Tom Ruffles

Not to be confused with Deborah Blum’s non-fiction Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life after Dea...

H G Wells’s The Time Machine (1895) was the first science fiction novel I read, at the age of 11.  I can date this precisely because I...

On 10 April 2014, the University of London’s Senate House Library hosted a meeting organised by Christopher Josiffe and Richard Espley,...

I’ve been enjoying Leo Ruickbie’s article in the latest Fortean Times celebrating the 40th anniversary of The Exorcist , which opened ...

I didn’t think I would be returning to the matter of the Buckmaster money left to the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), quite so so...