Nov 2017 · Books

Forever Konrad: A Vampire’s Vampire

‘A Powerful & Disturbing Experience‘ – Ramsey Campbell One night in Hull, I woke from a dream of being a vampire. A later vision of a woman standing on the beach at Zeebrugge, staring out…

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Jul 2017 · Blog

Larkin as Vampire

  A little card from 1954 sits in a glass case in Hull’s university library, in an exhibition that seeks to contain his life. Philip Larkin had just been interviewed for the librarian’s post.…

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Jan 2016 · Blog

Writing at 40,000 feet

This blog is written at a height of 40,000 feet while travelling above the Black Sea at 492mph. It’s dark outside. It has been easy not to write for the past two weeks. They…

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