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Rum, Bum and Concertina
At the National Maritime Museum in London, alongside sea monsters and sirens, I also found myself immersed in the world and history of piracy.

PART 4
The Expanded Universe
(Contemporary folklore)
‘If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!’
From Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Loving the Alien
David Bowie was an artist who throughout his life actively cultivated and played with his image as an otherworldly, pansexual, non binary being.

THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU
Queer teacher and writer S. Trimble watched The Exorcist when they were a teenager with their sister and cousins.

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Demon Twinks
On 31 July 2021, queer DJ and event promoter Ty Sunderland wrote the now infamous tweet: “There was a DEMON twink on Britney boat last night.”

THE ROTTING GODDESS

PART 3
Black Magick
(The occult and supernatural)
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh…
From ‘The Well of Loneliness’ by Radclyffe Hall
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Witch-hunts
In September 1649 the village of Kilbarchan, in the central Scottish lowlands, was rocked by a bizarre scandal involvi.

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Children of the Night
Patros is a Greek island located in a circle of islands called the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea.

PART 2
Bad Blood
(Cursed beings and shapeshifters)
‘Listen to them - the children of the night. What music they make!’
From Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Bug Bad Wolves
In the twelfth century, Marie de France, a poet and storyteller, wrote of a tale that she wished not to forget.

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Radical Faeries
As with the unicorn and the mermaid, the fairy’s origins are as far away from their glossy or Disneyfied counterparts as you might imagine.