Spring Haunts, May 2024
Robert Edgar ran a writing workshop on ‘Time Slip’ and writing ghost stories at the Spring Haunts Horror Writing Weekend in York.
Spring Haunts | Writing workshop | York | 11-12 May 2024 – Writers Online (writers-online.co.uk)
Still Scared Podcast – March 2024
Lauren Stephenson and Robert Edgar were interviewed by Adam Wybray for a special bonus edition of the Still Scared Podcast about Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children’s Television.
Horrifying Children – Still Scared: Talking Children’s Horror
Folk Horror Day, York Literature Festival, March 2024
Robert Edgar, Adam James Smith and Rob O’Connor hosted a folk horror themed day as part of the York Literature Festival in 2024. The event attracted an audience of over 300 people.
Festival programme 2024: http://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/hauntology/files/2024/05/York-Literature-Festival-A5-2024-A5-Web.pdf
The programme included an opening talk by Alan G Smith and Robert Edgar on Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition
Katy Soar was in conversation with Adam James Smith about her British Library collection Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Ancient Sites and Pagan Rites
Naomi Booth – Writer and academic ran a horror writing workshop.
Folk horror author Andrew Michael Hurley was in conversation with Robert Edgar about folk horror, writing unsettling fiction and his novels The Loney, Devil’s Day and Starve Acre.
The day concluded with a folk horror special from Scarred for Life’s Ste Brotherstone and Bob Fisher of the Haunted Generation
Darkness in the Fields 2, October 2023
Robert Edgar and Alan G Smith spoke at the Darkness in the Fields 2 folk horror event about an alternative history of folk horror and their book, Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition.
Writing the Uncanny, York Literature Festival, March 2023
Robert Edgar interviewed editor and author Dan Coxon, author Lucie McKnight Hardy and writer, director, producer Jeremy Dyson about their contributions to the Dead Ink book Writing the Uncanny.