What does the Gothic have in common with fairy tales? How can we read Snow White as a vampire? Join Writing the Horrors: Darkly Ever After to find out. Tickets are going fast!

What was so dangerous about Lucy Westenra that Stoker had to kill her twice? Find out in my online talk on Queer vampires and monstrous women, happening today! There’s still time to get your tickets at the link in my bio 🦇

There’s still time to get a ticket to my Gothic creative writing workshop! Join me, let’s read the Gothic to write the horrors 💀

The vibes I bring to the function

Rest in Peace, David Lynch 🖤 I keep thinking about an interview I saw with him, where the interviewer asked him to explain something and Lynch refused. “The film is talking,” he replied. And I love that. It’s so rare now, to let art speak for itself. He will be missed.

‘You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.’
- Mary Oliver, Wild Geese (excerpt).

Nineteenth-century depictions of medieval femmes fatale often depicted them with books. Because nothing scared the Victorian boys more than a woman with notions.

The moon is glorious tonight (the photograph is not).

The burden of being witty in my first post is too much. Please enjoy this (filter free) photo I took - while running for a bus - of my local graveyard instead.