Black Crow Books is hosting a horror panel at Harbour Hotel tomorrow evening, and I’m going. TJ Klune, V Castro, Keith Rosson, and George Morris De’Ath discussing horror fiction and queer fantasy in Brighton feels too good to miss. Castro’s body horror hits differently when you write about fractured identities. Rosson’s apocalyptic work does that […]
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End of Summer festival at Kaliningrad’s Mayakovsky Library yesterday. Strange to discuss contemporary horror fiction in a building named after a poet who made his own life into performance art. The panel topic was interactive literature and reader participation. Fitting venue – Mayakovsky understood that art should demand response, should refuse to let audiences remain
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Cambridge wrapped me in its stone arms again yesterday. Walking through the college gates after summer break feels like stepping into someone else’s novel. All those medieval towers reaching into grey September sky, courtyards so green they hurt your eyes. My roommate thinks I’m being dramatic, but how else can you react to this place?
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