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“In the novel Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford, the slugs which inhabit the narrator’s garden at night are ‘shrivelling over the pebble and dirt like the skin on staling fruit’.11 Here the visual image this summons is unsettling: the slug being likened to a foodstuff implies that it may be devoured, with all the revulsion that would entail, but without stating this explicitly.”
― Dan Coxon, Writing the Uncanny

“Writing fiction, imagining characters we have not met and do not know, we use our empathy to try to describe their lives. However, the imagination must be fed by research, or else we produce caricatures.”
― Dan Coxon, Writing the Uncanny

“The priest was young, I’d watched him kiss the book and thought the kiss a little wet for death.”
― Ella Frears, Goodlord: An Email

“I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas”
― Ella Frears, Goodlord: An Email