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The Photographed Dead: A. Rushby on All Her Beautiful Deaths

The Photographed Dead: A. Rushby on All Her Beautiful Deaths

In this A. Rushby interview, the author of All Her Beautiful Deaths talks Victorian death photography, the ethics of looking at other people’s grief and why her sentient Culpepper House wishes its family well. She also explains why, after the darker Slashed Beauties, she wanted a feminist gothic full of yearning, and names the YA horror novel that gave her nightmares.

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Crones and Cold Cases: Tracy Fahey on Queens of the Crone Age

Crones and Cold Cases: Tracy Fahey on Queens of the Crone Age

In this Tracy Fahey interview, the Irish author talks about Queens of the Crone Age, where the Cailleach listens to women’s stories, and Down We Go Together, her first book of crime and noir stories. She explains why she rewrote an ending to take the answer away and where her female body horror comes from. She also says why contemporary horror film keeps flattening the Hag into a villain, and what Irish folk horror can do instead.