Writing the Uncanny

• Introduction – Richard V. Hirst & Dan CoxonNegative Spaces and Ambiguity: A Toolkit for Writing Uncanny Fiction – Lucie McKnight HardyA Many-Storied House – Michèle RobertsFinding the Comedy in the Blatantly Unfunny: A Personal Journey Through Three and a Half Tales of Unease – Robert ShearmanSpotlight on… Shirley Jackson: Personal Experience in the Uncanny – Alison MooreHalf-Concealed Places, or a Particularly Humdrum Uncanny – Gary BuddenBeach Reading – Nicholas RoylePotluck: Making the Most of Your Little Horrors – Chikodili EmelumaduIn the Forest, Stories Grow: Writing Uncanny Fiction with Fairy Tales – Claire DeanSpotlight on… Robert Aickman: Seeing by the Moonlight: Thoughts on ‘The Hospice’ and Robert Aickman – Jeremy DysonSeeing Things and Saying Things: Writing the Ghost – Jenn AshworthHaunting the Text: Housing Ghosts in Fiction – Catriona WardAll You Have to do is Die – Rowan Hisayo BuchananSpotlight on… Sigmund Freud: ‘You Must All be Very Worried’: Freud’s Uncanny and Hoffman’s ‘The Sandman’ – Timothy J. Jarvis

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