Month: August 2026
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It just had to be Liverpool. Modern horror stories in books and on screen are set in Victorian England, circulating around London (Ripper street, Whitechapel, Penny Dreadful etc) or isolated mansions in fictional villages and towns modelled on the home counties of southern England. While the classics explore the South West (Hardy) and industrial towns…
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A review of Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic Gothic tale of the female vampire, Carmilla. Representations of the vampire, female sexuality and desire in Victorian Gothic Horror.
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The truth about running a serial novel on Substack. Does it work? Breakdown of the pros and cons of seralising your fiction on Substack.
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I recently caught up with debut author MA Knight to talk about her horror romance novel Feverchain!
