Angela Carter's work often featured Gothic or fantastical aspects, celebrating strangeness or unsettling normality. This talk will explore the darker side of her writings.
Paris's Théâtre du Grand-Guignol (1897–1962) earned a notorious reputation as the "Theatre of Horror", delivering a notorious blend of horror & comedy.
An introductory Zoom talk by James Machin on the decadent writer of strange tales, Count Stenbock – 'scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men'
This illustrated Zoom talk will explore the Medieval history of one of the most popular and long-lived of all the mythical creatures that humans have invented.
This talk looks at how and why it came to be written, and at the story of Grahame himself, the outwardly boring and conventional bank clerk who created it
"I am a ghost in the form of a mongoose, and I shall haunt you with weird noises..." Find out about the Isle of Man's most-famous spook in this Zoom talk with Christopher Josiffe.
Jon Dear leads us through the work of Nigel Kneale, one of Britain’s most significant screenwriters of the 20th century – the creator of Professor Bernard Quatermass
Gary Lachman will look at how occult thought and ideas influenced some of the most important and influential writers and poets of the past two centuries
