• [From the Vault] Laura Purcell & The Art of Darkness

  • Nov 26 2024
  • Length: 48 mins
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[From the Vault] Laura Purcell & The Art of Darkness

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    I’m feeling Gothic this week. Must be the weather.

    In lieu of a new episode, I searched the vault and found this cracker from January 2021, in which Laura Purcell — doyenne of the contemporary British Gothic — talked me through her Victorian spookshow of mesmerism and haunted silhouettes, The Shape of Darkness.

    We also get into the social nightmare of Victorian England – when life was even more gothic than it is now, believe it or not!

    Enjoy!

    Other books mentioned:

    • The Residence (2020), by Andrew Pyper
    • The Haunting of Alma Fielding (2020), by Andrew Pyper
    • Shadowland, or Light From the Other Side (1897), by Elizabeth d’Esperance
    • “The Blue Lenses,” in The Breaking Point (1959), by Daphne du Maurier
    • “The Mezzotint”, “A View From A Hill” and “Oh Whistle and I’ll Come To You My Lad”, found in The Collected Ghost Stories of M.R. James


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