For many people, a staple part of any childhood sleepover were games like Bloody Mary, Sandman, The Midnight Game or Charlie Charlie – games that, on the surface, seem like eerie dabbling with the occult… but which also served as bonding exercises, tests of nerve, and ways of playing with tension, fear and fun.

October 2025

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📍 Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, Edinburgh 📍