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Author: Emily Turner

By day, journalist. By night, postgraduate researcher and doctoral candidate at the University of Sussex, studying the medical humanities in the Victorian period. Occasional artist.

Pumpkin King’s jack-o-lanterns light up Royston

[This story was also published on In Your Area, October 23, 2020.] Beetlejuice, Wednesday Addams, and Rob Zombie will be … More

Art, Community, Halloween, Local News

An Apparition Appears #5

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Folklore, Ghosts, Interview, Photography, Review, The Apparition, Travel

An Apparition Appears #4

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Book, Essay, Film, Illustration, Review

Identity, resistance, and doubled gazes in Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) and The Handmaiden (2016)

Several fates befall paintings in 2019’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire – defacement, distortion, conflagration. Early in the film, … More

Essay, Film, LGBT+, Review

An Apparition Appears #3

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Book, Culture, Illustration, Review, Writing

An Apparition Appears #2

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The Apparition

The Apparition – a spectral sound

I’ve jumped on the quaranzine bandwagon and made a wee newsletter called The Apparition.  I’ll post them up here but … More

Art, Journalism, Lifestyle, Music, Photography, Quaranzine, The Apparition, Writing

Chichester exhibition showcases radical women artists of early 20th century

One of the leading women modernists of the early 20th century, Jessica Dismorr (1885-1939) used her art to respond to … More

Art, Chichester, Exhibition, Feminism, Gallery, Review

A week in Copenhagen

I came back from Copenhagen in early September. I’d spent a week in the city, staying near the Lergravsparken metro … More

Culture, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Personal, Photography, Travel, Writing

Searching for spirits

I was very inspired by this Polaroid of the haunted landscape behind M.R. James’ childhood Suffolk home, taken at dusk … More

Art, Folk Horror, Folklore, History, Photography

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