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SUMMARY:Eliza Chan & Sunyi Dean: Hong Kong Ghost Stories @Manchester Literature Festival
DESCRIPTION:Two of fantasy’s most exciting voices come together for a captivating conversation exploring ghosts\, folklore and the stories that shape us. Bestselling authors Eliza Chan and Sunyi Dean discuss the shared themes running through their acclaimed new novels\, from women’s lives and family legacies to memory\, identity and generational trauma. \n\n\n\nEliza Chan’s Harbour of Hungry Ghosts is a historical fantasy adventure set in Opium War-era Hong Kong\, following a family of demon hunters. Sunyi Dean’s The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a haunting dark urban fantasy set during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in World War II. \n\n\n\nExpect a lively discussion on the folklore behind their fiction\, writing across cultures and bringing Hong Kong’s rich past vividly to life. Hosted by Susan Barker. \n\n\n\nEliza Chan is a Scottish-born Chinese-diaspora author who writes across East Asian mythology and British folklore\, often exploring identity\, reclamation and the power of storytelling. Her novels include Fathomfolk and the sequel Tideborn. She lives in the north of England with her family. \n\n\n\nSunyi Dean was born in Texas\, raised in Hong Kong and now lives in Yorkshire. Her work is shaped by her personal and family history\, including connections to the original Walled City of Kowloon and stories of survival during the Japanese occupation. Her debut The Book Eaters was a Sunday Times Bestseller. \n\n\n\nSusan Barker is the author of novels The Incarnations and Old Soul. She is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and a member of the Gothic Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\nCo-presented with Waterstones. \n\n\n\nWheelchair Users and those with other access needs requiring a free Essential Carer ticket should contact the Quaytickets Box Office on 0161 876 1720 to purchase tickets. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBook tickets
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/eliza-chan-sunyi-dean-hong-kong-ghost-stories-manchester-literature-festival/
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SUMMARY:Victorian Gothic – Haunted Houses and Night-time Terrors by Emma Liggins (online)
DESCRIPTION:This talk is one of a series of talks on Gaskell and the Gothic. \n\n\n\nCross the threshold into a world of flickering gaslight and cold stone. Step beyond the velvet curtains of the Victorian home to discover the era’s greatest Gothic writers\, from the atmospheric dread of Wuthering Heights to the suffocating psychology of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind out more about the psychological stories of terror written by Elizabeth Gaskell’s contemporaries where crumbling buildings reflect unravelling psyches. We’ll consider terrifying tales about ancestral curses\, haunted railways\, dead lovers and doomed servants by British and American authors including Charles Dickens\, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Edgar Allan Poe. \n\n\n\nJoin speaker Dr Emma Liggins\, Co-Director of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies\, as we unlock the doors to Victorian Gothic Fiction\, just in time for Halloween! \n\n\n\n‘It was absolutely superb – very informative and delivered with authority.’ Visitor to previous online event \n\n\n\nTickets £6 \n\n\n\nWednesday 28 October 2026\, 7-8pm
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/online-talk-victorian-gothic-haunted-houses-and-night-time-terrors/
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SUMMARY:Gothic Tales: G.R. Pidgeon and Stephen Howard in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of unsettling fiction\, hosted by Emma Liggins \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome G. R. Pidgeon and Stephen Howard to Blackwell’s for a special event with the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies! The authors will be discussing their work with the Centre’s co-director\, Emma Liggins. \n\n\n\nDoors: 6.30pm\, Starts: 6.45pm. \n\n\n\nTickets are £5 or admission is included when purchasing a Book & Ticket option. \n\n\n\nAbout The Patient In The Tower: \n\n\n\nThe war may be over\, but the nightmare is just beginning… \n\n\n\nReleased from prison after years of solitary confinement for refusing to fight in the Great War\, Robert Latimer arrives in an isolated village looking for his brother. \n\n\n\nThomas was wounded in France and sent to Ravensmere House for treatment. But the sprawling estate has a sinister reputation\, housing the most disturbed soldiers returning from war. While searching\, Robert sees a mysterious woman dressed in white wandering through the woods at twilight. \n\n\n\nDenied access to his brother by the charismatic Dr Abbott\, Robert becomes convinced that something is terribly wrong behind Ravensmere’s walls. With the help of outspoken local woman Edith Chalk\, he uncovers strange medicines\, disturbing experiments and long-forgotten legends. \n\n\n\nBut as Robert digs deeper and risks his life to uncover the truth\, he realises there are darker forces at play. And someone will do anything to keep Ravensmere’s secrets hidden. \n\n\n\nBecause some evils refuse to stay buried… \n\n\n\nAbout This House Isn’t Haunted (But We Are): \n\n\n\nA couple mourning the loss of their young daughter take up an opportunity to renovate a rural cottage on the remote North Yorkshire Moors. However\, they can’t process their grief as increasingly eerie events unfold. Is it their daughter haunting them or is something else going on? Part of Wild Hunt Book’s brilliant Northern Weird series\, focussing on the North of England as setting\, subject and character. \n\n\n\nAbout the authors: \n\n\n\nG. R. Pidgeon has spent the last twenty years as Head of English at leading state and independent schools in Kent\, aiming to inspire the next generation of readers and writers. He is also an English Subject Leader for The Prince’s Teaching Institute\, developing the subject knowledge of new teachers\, and specialising in Victorian and Gothic Literature\, as well as the Romantic Poets. Most weekends he is to be found exploring the forgotten corners of ancient parish churches\, reading the faded inscriptions on the backs of toppled gravestones\, or climbing up winding staircases in search of secret passages. \n\n\n\nStephen Howard is an novelist and short story writer from Manchester\, now living in Cheshire with his wife and daughter. Stephen has a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from the Open University. His short fiction has been published by Lost Boys Press\, The No Sleep Podcast\, Metastellar\, and others. His sci-fi / fantasy novel\, An Invincible Summer\, was published this year with Infested Publishing.
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/gothic-tales-g-r-pidgeon-and-stephen-howard-in-conversation/
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