Tag: Story

• Breakfast, Then Death

  

  This work of short fiction by Claire L. Smith centres on the death of a victim of domestic abuse. Her trauma so embedded, she mindlessly continues her everyday life as she dies. Please note that although this post does not contain graphic descriptions of violence, it does contain graphic descriptions of injury. 

  Death and the Maiden

  11/01/2018

  Guest Post

  Claire L. Smith, Crime, Death, Domestic Abuse, Domestic Violence, Murder, Short Fiction, Story, Victim, Writer

• Bluebeard & the Final Girl: Feminist Retellings of Perrault’s Classic

  

  Sonya Vatomsky is here to examine the myth of Bluebeard, Perrault’s text as a canonical work, is in dire need of retelling. Culturally, Bluebeard has found itself linked more to temptation/knowledge narratives like the Garden of Eden and Pandora’s Box than to narratives of heroic escape from monstrous kings and ogres. This in itself is…

  Death and the Maiden

  09/02/2017

  Guest Post

  Bluebeard, Bride, Charles Perrault, Culture, Deadmaidens, Fairytales, Female Curiosity, Feminism, Final Girl, Folklore, Gender, Gender Roles, Genre, Marriage, Murder, Narrative, Perrault, Power, Retelling, Story, Women

• Rachel The Film

  Karen Anstee is weeks away from the filming of Rachel. A short film about the complex relationships between love, death, family and religion. As writer and director, Karen shares insight into what inspired the project as well as some of the beautiful locations the production team will be shooting at. Ultimately, Rachel is an exploration of the…

  Death and the Maiden

  30/05/2016

  Guest Post

  Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Death Rituals, Experiences, Film, Grief, Jewish, Jewish Culture, Life, Loss, Love, Rachel The Film, Religion, Script Writing, Story, Tradition, Tragedy

• Mrs Blunden of Basingstoke

  

  Lucy Coleman Talbot shares the horrifying tale of her home town. Mrs Blunden, who was not buried alive once… but twice

  Death and the Maiden

  13/08/2015

  Lucy Coleman Talbot

  Basingstoke, Burial, Buried Alive, Cemetery, Coffins, Deadmaidens, Death, Grave, Hampshire, History, Holy Ghost Cemetery, Peace, Story, Willis Museum