katiehwrites 's review for:

Writing the Uncanny by Richard V. Hirst, Dan Coxon

5.0

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This collection of essays was compelling and fascinating. Each tackles an element of weird or scary fiction and unpacks what makes it so. Rather than specific writing tips, each author reflects on their own work, or the work of others, with plenty of examples given for further reading. From humour to ghosts to setting to automatons, and referring to everyone from Freud to Austen, Hoffman to Shirley Jackson, there is so much her to prick the imagination. I know I'll return to this book again and again.