Twisted Tales

Posted by Dr Claire McKechnie on October 07, 2011 in News tagged with 21st century horror, competition, Gothic events, Twisted Tales

With thanks to David McWilliam of Lancaster University:

http://twistedtalesevents.blogspot.com/

Twisted Tales will be celebrating Halloween and one year of promoting the best of 21st century horror later this month. There are two forthcoming events of interest to Gothicists:

http://twistedtalesevents.blogspot.com/2011/09/new-event-evening-of-occult-horror-at.html

http://twistedtalesevents.blogspot.com/2011/09/new-event-house-of-fear.html

(Both those flyers were designed by the very talented John Reppion).

The project’s first competition has been launched, to win one of five copies of House of Fear:

http://twistedtalesevents.blogspot.com/2011/10/competition-win-copy-of-house-of-fear.html

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About the Author – Dr Claire McKechnie

Dr Claire McKechnie has written 13 articles on The Gothic Imagination.

Claire McKechnie graduated with a PhD from the Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh in 2011 and has been teaching English and Scottish literature and the Medicine in Literature course for medical students there for several years. She previously gained degrees from Glasgow and Hull. She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, where she is undertaking a new project entitled Cancer and the Victorian Literary Imagination, and she is also teaching on the Masters course 'The Gothic Imagination' at the University of Stirling. She is currently co-guest editing a special issue of The Journal of Victorian Culture entitled ‘New Perspectives on Animals in Victorian Culture’. Her principal research interests lie in the Gothic and the literary history and scientific / medical culture of Victorian Britain, and she is author of several articles on the interrelationship between science, literature and culture.