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A childish nightmare, a strange figure in the night. A woman whose silence is both eerie and beautiful… Enter the dark tale of E.T.A Hoffman, whose story ‘The Sandman’ so disturbed Sigmund Freud that the psychologist created the concept of The Uncanny. The Uncanny, wrote Freud, ‘undoubtedly belongs to all that is terrible — to
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Are you a writer of Gothic or horror fiction? Are you looking for a supportive community of like-minded authors to give you feedback on your work? Horrors in Progress is a creative writing support workshop where you can share your work in progress with a group comprised of your target audience, led by a world
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A dark forest. The bite of an apple. A coffin made of glass. Enter the vampiric fairy tale of Tanith Lee—where the victim is the villain, and the witch must fight to survive. Snow White is a story brimming with vampire symbolism, but what was Tanith Lee saying when she rewrote the fairy tale in blood and
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The term ‘Black Magic’ conjures up all sorts of images. Maybe you visualise a terrible ritual, with blood and a Baphomet and some poor victim pinned to the center of a pentagram. Then again, maybe you picture Faust, begging the stars to stand still so that the devil Mephistopheles won’t drag him to Hell. Or
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Quite the surreal experience, attending a law conference. I presented a paper which was a collaboration with Dr Hannah Baumeister. (We became friends after I worked as her research assistant on the Drawing on Forced Marriage: Teaching Tough Topics Through Comics project.) Our paper (‘Fatal Words of Consent’: On Marriage and the Law in Wilkie
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I love being a literary editor, especially of academic writing. Last week I supported a PhD student to edit the final draft of her thesis before submission. It was such a privilege. Not only do I get to support the next wave of academics, but I’m also reading the cutting edge of scholarship. It’s such
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Here you are, approaching the end of your Master’s, or perhaps you’re a particularly ambitious undergrad. The winter exams are over, you’re moving towards Easter deadlines and the horizon of your current degree is rushing towards you with increasing speed. Now you’re starting to look around you and wonder: Should you do a PhD? And
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I think I know what you think I’m going to say. I’m going to tell you about the studies that show that reading fiction increases compassion and empathy for others. By reading literature, you are given access to the lived experiences of diverse people: characters from different cultures, body types, ethnicities, even moments in history.
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My name is Dr Alex Carabine. Despite my rather impressive-sounding title, I’m actually a working-class woman from Liverpool. I attended a comprehensive secondary school where a sixth-form Goth girl was stabbed in the leg between lessons, and I never thought university would be for me. I had no confidence in my abilities, and, growing up
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