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Verity Holloway

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Art, history, folklore, and bad medicine. I wrote Pseudotooth, Beauty Secrets of The Martyrs and The Mighty Healer. I have Marfan syndrome, but my symmetry is still fearful.

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Born in Gibraltar in 1986, I grew up following my Navy family around the world. Always on the move, dealing with the effects of my connective tissue disorder, Marfan syndrome, I found friendly territory in fantasy, history, and Fortean oddities.

In 2007, I graduated from Cambridge’s Anglia Ruskin University with a First Class BA in Literature and Creative Writing. I went on to earn a Distinction Masters in Literature with special focus on Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The House of Life.

My short stories and poems have been variously published. My ...more

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The Roots of Jack-in-the-Green

I’m in the latest issue of Hellebore, talking about Victorian chimneysweeps taking to the streets on May Day. This was an emotional one for me – it turns out that the last boy to die up a chimney in England is buried in an unmarked grave right outside my old uni halls of residence. I’d unwittingly looked out over him every morning. Poor little George Brewster. I hope this article goes a little way

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	Hellebore #3: The Malefice Issue by Maria J. Pérez Cuervo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Catherine Spooner, Rebecca Baumann 4.38 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Others of Edenwell by Verity M. Holloway, Verity Holloway (Goodreads Author) 3.60 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hellebore #4: The Yuletide Special by Maria J. Pérez Cuervo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Katy Soar, Jackie Bates 4.35 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pseudotooth 3.87 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beauty Secrets of The Martyrs 4.32 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gore by Verity Holloway (Goodreads Author), Ivo De Jager (Illustrator) 3.30 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	CloisterFox, Issue 1 Spring/Summer 2022 (CloisterFox, #1) by Verity Holloway (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Hartley, Ally Wilkes (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Contraindications really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.”
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“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
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“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
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