Icelandic Ghost Stories

Jason Buck brings Icelandic Ghost Stories to The Old Cold Store on Wednesday 21 October, a night of traditional tales from Iceland's storytelling tradition. Buck is a professional storyteller, and this evening draws on the country's long history of stories about ghosts and magic, love, death and adventure. It's billed as 'tales for the spooky season', so it sits right in the middle of October's autumn nights.

Past audiences have spoken about his stage presence and the atmosphere he builds around the room, with some calling him a 'truly gifted individual' and others saying they were 'completely spellbound'. If you've never seen a professional storyteller in the flesh, that's a good place to start: it's less about a script and more about how the stories are told, with the focus on the performance and the room it creates.

The venue is The Old Cold Store, part of the Castle Rock Brewery on Queensbridge Road (NG2 1NB). Doors open at 7.30 pm, and tickets start from £5.50. One thing to keep in mind: the night is for over-18s only, in line with licensing laws, so it's an adults-only crowd.