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Writers from Clive Barker to China Miéville and Mariana Enriquez show how city settings for uncanny fiction create a new kind of horror

Writers Reads: Tom Chivers, author of London Clay

It seemed like a preposterous proposition. For decades, Iain Sinclair has been an assiduous psychogeographer of London, an eldritch cartographer mapping…

After serving eight years of hard drama, Wentworth – the critically acclaimed reboot of Prisoner – begins its final season with a dramatic new non-binary character, Reb.

Hauntology, which is subtitled Ghosts of Future Past, simply offers a lot of regurgitated and undigested material, which doesn’t evidence much understanding of original works on the subject by the likes of Mark Fisher which it draws heavily on. Whilst it is always good to see the books of Alan Garner, W.G. Sebald, Susan Cooper and Nigel Kneale’s TV films discussed there is little of any originality on offer here. Tom Chivers works much harder with his research material, refining and reshap...

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Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The Global Energy Group (GEG) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate with a partnership planning a new floating wind development off the north-east coast. Described as a “stepping stone” between demonstrator schemes and commercial developments, the 200 megawatt (MW) Salamander project is being developed by a joined venture formed by Irish firm Si...

06/01/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 06/01/2021 01:57 Big wins for Scottish supply chain as Global Energy Group and Salamander floating wind project team up 01/06/21 Big wins for Scottish supply chain as Global Energy Group and Salamander floating wind project team up The Salamander project developed by Simply Blue Energy in partnership with Subsea 7 has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Global Energy Group (GEG) to collaborate in the design, development and execution p...

The Queen of 1960s London’s ‘permissive society’, Novotny mixed with statesmen, strippers and spies – then vanished 1 May 2021 • 5:00am I can rattle skeletons in many important cupboards: Mariella Novotny in 1971 Credit: Dove/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty In the dying days of the 20th century I was researching the life of my grandfather, Charlie, a con man implicated in the corruption of Flying Squad officers. During his trial at the Old Bailey in 1978, Charlie alleged he had been set ...

Stewart Lee ’s celestial choices. Plus reanimated Brummies, maverick maestros and some fine fiddling A year pre-Covid, outside Islington’s Hope & Anchor on a summer evening to see mod punk classicists The Fallen Leaves, the board unexpectedly promises “support from Cult Figures”. Not the Birmingham band that made two singles in 1979 then disappeared? Yes! Released in 2018, The 166 Ploughs A Lonely Furrow was the album Cult Figures should have made in 1980, but 2021’s Deritend is a s...