Putting the CULT into culture.
CULTure Babylon produces events including film festivals, talks, and theatrical and spoken word performance.
We curate and produce The Fear in the Fens Festival - a three-day event celebrating classic horror - with special reference to the East Anglian landscape. It also provides local film makers a chance to get their short horror films seen on the big screen.
We produce the Lady Chillers - live readings of stories of the supernatural and macabre by women writers, including the neglected Norfolk author Elizabeth Coulson.
New for 2025, we are also bringing the Star in the East Conference. A weekend of talks and practical learning on occult and esoteric subjects.
Kit Lewis
Kit Lewis has been a writer, journalist and communications expert for more than 30 years.
His journalism has appeared in national and regional newspapers and in publications as varied as Shooting Times and Teddy Bear Times.
He continues to work as communications consultant to a number of private, public and not-for-profit organisations.
Kit Lewis started CULTure Babylon in 2012, combining cult film events with expert speakers in a unique format.
This provided the foundation for the Fear in the Fens Festival, which celbrates its 10th anniversary in 2025 and also the Star in the East Festival.
Christine Pike
Christine Pike is a sculptor and curator with a life-long interest in Gothic fiction and, in particular, the ‘golden age’ of ghost stories of the 19th and early 20th centuries from Britain and the United States . Realising that, although male writers such as M R James, Bram Stoker, and Edgar Allen Poe are widely known, their female counterparts (although just as accomplished and prolific) are not. She set about remedying this situation by putting together a selection of ghost stories by women authors and performing them locally.
Christine has also begun to write and perform her own supernatural fiction, in the Victorian Gothic vein, under the pen name V. R. Salmon
Using only a lectern and some atmospheric lighting for her performed readings, Lady Chillers conjures up a world of period terror that will leave you wishing you didn’t have to go home in the dark…