Writing
Small Angels
Nobody knew how old the woods were, or how big. The outside had been mapped and measured but once you were in there it seemed to stretch much further...
Chloe has been planning her wedding for months - and now she has the perfect venue: Small Angels, a picturesque little church at the edge of Mockbeggar Woods, in the village her husband-to-be grew up in. So why are the villagers telling her such unsettling stories about the place? Why is she beginning to see, hear, and even smell things that couldn't possibly be real?
Kate hasn't been back to the village since the death of a childhood friend in Mockbeggar Woods ten years ago. Now the woods are beginning to stir with their old magic, and Kate knows there's only one person who can help her avert catastrophe: Lucia, troubled and bewitching, to whom she lost her heart so dangerously, all those years ago.
The Quick
You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick. But first you must travel to Victorian Yorkshire, and there, on a remote country estate, meet a brother and sister alone in the world and bound by tragedy. In time, you will enter the rooms of London’s mysterious Aegolius Club, a society of some of the richest, most powerful men in fin-de-siecle England. And at some point, we cannot say when, these worlds will collide.
It is then, and only then, that a new world emerges, one of romance, adventure and the most delicious of horrors and the secrets of The Quick are revealed.
Dracula’s Inky Shadows: The Vampire Gothic of Writing
Always a story about a story, the vampire tale is forever in dialogue with the past, conscious of its own status as a rewrite. This makes the vampire a figure onto which readers and authors can project ambivalence about writing – the gothic of living with texts. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) vividly illustrates this connection. The novel presents textual interactions as both dangerous and pleasurable. What is more, Dracula has accumulated significance through criticism and adaptation. These retellings tie the novel even more closely to the processes of writing and rewriting.