Setting part two

The opening of my first novel Heatstroke came to me in what Stevie Nicks would call a ‘crystal vision’. I was at work, seized by an impulse, and typed straight into an email what are still – give or t

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Many things can add that extra frisson of fear to horror fiction. Prime among them we might think of the time of day or the weather, the device we know and love as pathetic fallacy. A bleak and stormy

How Chaucer reshaped English poetry

There’s a good reason to tap into happiness right now, and it’s probably not why you think, writes Jackee Holder