RESIDENTS who love the Halloween season are in for a treat as spooky tales are set to be told at The Haymarket.

After its production of Christmas Gothic last year, Dyad Productions are back at The Haymarket with a brand new show which it has called Female Gothic. The thrilling show will be at the Basingstoke theatre on Wednesday, November 2.

The company will be bringing three tales of terror from the great Victorian female writers, with the show set to be perfect for the Halloween season.

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In the dark between life and death, a lone haunted woman tells strange and terrifying tales of love, loss, death and the darkness beyond; eerie stories, dusty and forgotten. An artist, gripped by the clutching fingers of a dead past; a scientist, defying nature in the dark realm of the senses; an expectant father driven mad by creeping shadows.

Audiences who attend the show can expect to experience chilling, haunting and dazzling storytelling, illuminating the curious frailties of human nature and captivating the audience.

The show has so far been the winner of the Three Weeks Editors Award.

Female Gothic is adapted and performed by Rebecca Vaughan (Christmas Gothic) and directed by Olivier Award Winner, Guy Masterson (Morecambe).

The Victorian fascination with tales of mystery and the supernatural created an enduring legacy of Gothic fiction to produce this exciting and thrilling show, which is not to be missed this Halloween season.

Today, Charles Dickens, M R James, and Edgar Allen Poe continue to be celebrated, yet many of the most chilling, strange and terrifying ghost stories created by the incredibly popular female writers of that era – Mary Shelley, George Eliot, M E Braddon, Edith Wharton, Edith Nesbit et al – have gathered dust and been forgotten – until now.

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The show seeks to take auidences back in time and remember just how chilling ghostly stories can be.

Tickets for the ghostly show are currently priced at £19,

Residents who want more information should contact the Anvil Arts box office on 01256 844244 or visit anvilarts.org.uk for more information.