Kit Whitfield

Kit Whitfield is an award-winning novelist, 'one of the great original voices of British fantasy' (Francis Spufford). Kit is the author of the Gyrford series [tinyurl.com/nvvetupj], In The Heart of Hidden Things and All The Hollow of the Sky - tales of cold iron, plain-spoken fairy-smiths and Black Dogs that eat landlords. She features in Brian Froud's Voices of the Green Women, 2025. [bit.ly/4cOoxUT] Her upcoming novel, The Snakestone Girls [tinyurl.com/nddx4d5p], is available for pre-order and will be published 3 June 2027, featuring an accidental witch-paleontologist, a rescuer with raging ADHD, found family and a beloved pet that does not die. She lives in London. You can reach her on socials on @kitwhitfield.bsky.social or kit_whitfield_books on Instagram.

What's on Shudder

Lizzie Borden Films and Fiction: Which Version Gets Her Right?

Kit Whitfield’s What’s On Shudder column puts Lizzie Borden films on trial, from Lizzie on Shudder to The Legend of Lizzie Borden 1975 and Lizzie Borden Took An Ax. Then she turns to Angela Carter’s Lizzie Borden, told in The Fall River Axe Murders and Lizzie’s Tiger, to ask why nobody can quite pin this woman down.

by Kit Whitfield•8 October 20265 October 2026