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Kate Mayfield

@KateMayfield

Excavating the uncanny. Author of The Parentations, a novel, and The Undertaker's Daughter, a memoir. Repped by @oliagent @AMHeathLtd

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Joined May 2009
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Mr. Frederick Teague Cansick's 1872 collection of epitaphs in 2 volumes. "curst be he that moves my Bones" #epitaph #stpancras #oldstpancraschurchyard
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Halloween greetings from the Queen of the Night, goddess of the Netherworld. Old Babylonian terracotta from the 18thc BC. #Halloween
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Bookselling Out thebaffler.com/latest/bookse… "Books can change the world; let the customer decide which ones." #BOOKS

Bookselling Out | Dan Sinykin

“The Bookshop” tells the story of American bookstores in thirteen types. Its true subject is not how bookstore can survive, but how they should be.

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How did horror become the great American art form? slate.com/culture/2024/10/am… via @slate
The Great American Art Form Is Not What You Think. It’s the Perfect Time to Revel In It.

The Great American Art Form Is Not What You Think. It’s the Perfect Time to Revel In It.

A new history of horror traces its origins to an unexpected place.

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The universal belief in witches reveals our deepest fears – aeon.co/essays/the-universal… via @aeonmag '...globally it is women who are mostly identified as witches, in some societies – including the North American Navaho, and several African societies – most witches are men'
The universal belief in witches reveals our deepest fears | Aeon Essays

The universal belief in witches reveals our deepest fears | Aeon Essays

The belief in witches is an almost universal feature of human societies. What does it reveal about our deepest fears?

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I'm flitting between @katemayfield.bsky.social over on the sky of blue, and kate_mayfield on Threads. For obvious reasons.
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On Dracula's Lost Icelandic Sister Text lithub.com/on-draculas-lost-… via @lithub Dark horses.
On Dracula’s Lost Icelandic Sister Text

On Dracula’s Lost Icelandic Sister Text

 Blindur er bóklaus maður (Blind is a man without a book) –Icelandic proverb   For nearly 120 years, Bram Stoker’s Dracula has been constantly in print. The official publication date, May 26, …

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Lovely to be quoted in the FT Weekend House & Home @ftproperty talking about the history behind high ceilings (as you do!) 😁 Thanks @Algoss #househistory #househistories
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Available NOW. The Sirens Call ezine, including my story Split Reflection. There's lots of good stuff here & it's free! sirenscallpublications.com/e… #TheSirensCall #summer
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All the ghosts are enjoying the low tide view. #Thames #ghosts #river
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Paper Cuttings Made by 17th-Century Schoolgirls Discovered Beneath Floorboards - smithsonianmag.com/smart-new… @smithsonianmag
Paper Cuttings Made by 17th-Century Schoolgirls Discovered Beneath Floorboards

Paper Cuttings Made by 17th-Century Schoolgirls Discovered Beneath Floorboards

The fragile cutouts are going on display at Sutton House in London, which was once a boarding school for girls

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Our Mortal Waltz: The Dance of Death Across Centuries publicdomainreview.org/essay… by Allison C. Meier
Our Mortal Waltz: The Dance of Death Across Centuries

Our Mortal Waltz: The Dance of Death Across Centuries

The sight of a skeletal corpse rarely inspires a rollicking jig. Yet for more than half a millennium, the dance of death in European visual art has imagined a tango between the quick and the dead....

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Art and Artifice, by Donna Tartt harpers.org/archive/2024/07/… "Much of art happens, and has always happened, in the useless spaces between things, in the eerie psychic junkyard that Yeats called “the rag and bone shop of the heart.”
Art and Artifice, by Donna Tartt

Art and Artifice, by Donna Tartt

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Organising books over the weekend I came across the wonderful John Harding. A generous author, patient and attentive. I adore his books. I met him a couple of times before he died and he graciously tolerated my author crush. In Memoriam.
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The Dead Admonish Facing the ghosts of resistance and exile by John Ganz harpers.org/archive/2024/07/… via @Harpers
The Dead Admonish, by John Ganz

The Dead Admonish, by John Ganz

Facing the ghosts of resistance and exile

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St Pancras International on a Saturday
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I fell for Bridget Walsh's characters in her vivid novel 'The Innocents'. Clever, swiftly paced narrative, sweeping and entertaining. @bridget_walsh1
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The Case for Not Sanitizing Fairy Tales plough.com/en/topics/culture…
The Case for Not Sanitizing Fairy Tales | Plough

The Case for Not Sanitizing Fairy Tales | Plough

Fairy tales are the best way for children to learn that the world contains evil, violence, and danger.

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