Dark Academia

  • Writing the Horrors: Horrors in Progress

    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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  • Conversations with the Dead: the Origins of Black Magic

    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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  • Unlocking Academia: A Personal Journey to Accessible Education

    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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