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BFS Chair Shona Kinsella and Gothic literature expert Dr Alex Carabine chat about the use of language in the horror tradition.
Dr Alex Carabine (she/her): Alex Carabine is a Gothic academic with a dark aesthetic. Her PhD thesis focused on the influences of medieval culture on Gothic literature, and she has studied, taught and written on vampires, witches, hauntings and more. She is currently a medieval lecturer at the University of Liverpool (all views are her own), and she also founded Gothic University – an online business dedicated to bringing Gothic research to readers everywhere.
Connect with Alex on Instagram and Threads. And find out what she’s up to on her website.
Shona Kinsella (she/her): Shona Kinsella is a Scottish author of mythic fantasy. Her works include Daughters of Nicnevin, The Heart of Winter, Petra MacDonald and the Queen of the Fae, The Flame and the Flood, and non-fiction Outlander and the Real Jacobites: Scotland’s Fight for the Stuarts. Her short fiction can be found in various magazines and anthologies. Shona was the editor of the British Fantasy Society’s fiction publication BFS Horizons for four years and is now the Chair of the Society. She has been shortlisted for four British Fantasy Awards. She lives near Loch Lomond with her husband and children.
Find out more about Shona on her website. Or you can follow her on Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky. Books: Daughters of Nicnevin; Heart of Winter; Petra MacDonald; Flame & Flood; Outlander/Real Jacobites.
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