Sarah Gray

Urban Creatures is set for an April launch. In anticipation, I talked to Alodie Fielding about her spooky, marvellous and magical inspirations and how she ap...

We’re all used to the predictable movie images of exotic dancers, but these women bite back. In her 2019 film, Hustlers, Lorene Scafaria shows that women can...

We are ushered into a Victorian style theatre where the narrator begins his chilling tale: Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth wi...

... in which we close the doors to the cold night, snuggle up and bask in ghostly apparitions. Tim Frances, our charming host, introduces the evening I. Tell...

Jane Austen and Natalie Goldberg give writing advice and Aphra Behn’s early editions are saved Jane Austen’s humble place of work The writing process is a pe...

I’ve let my babies go… Surface Tension and Half Life are being released into the wild. Book Crossing is a social networking site for books. It is the act of ...

REPLICATING BLADE RUNNER Blade Runner does what all good sci-fi should and questions the nature of humanity. I was nervous at Blade Runner’s resurrection as ...

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. ‘If you gave an extremely bright fifteen-year-old a bag of unfamiliar herbs to smoke, and forty million dollars or so to play...

NORTHERN GOTHIC “I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.” ― Bram Stoker, Dracula. As ...

Join our guest writer, Hannah McKibbin, as she discusses getting naked and her new short film The Happy Genius. When I first came up with the idea for this s...

Stories of ghosts and supernatural creatures are notoriously hard to get right, but this was the challenge I set myself when making my short

From the pages of a book to the small screen, what is the best TV adaptation? We’ve already discussed film adaptations in a previous list but this week we tu...

Join our guest writer, Leonardo Rizzi, as he recounts his times translating the legendary Alan Moore. Translating comics is bewilderingly complex. Then again...

From the pages of a book to the big screen, what is the best movie adaptation? People always say the book is better than the film. I don’t agree. Adaptation ...

Bicycles - the true weapon of feminism. “I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives her a feeling of freedom, self-reliance an...

Join our guest writer, Josephine Rydberg, as she LARPs about with Jane Austen. I larp, beg your pardon, LARP, Live Action Role Playing. Like cowboys and indi...

The allure of horror has endured throughout the ages. Wouldn’t we be able to sleep easier without the nightmares? “I delight in what I fear” - Shirley Jackso...

Ancient mythology is once again making an impact on the cultural zeitgeist. After a resurgence in the 50s and 60s the gods retreated, until Neil Gaiman's Ame...