...I started having fun when I realised that a cat would really like t — Catriona Ward

"...When done right, horror is a transformative experience..."

"...Reading is a sustained act of telepathy or empathy, and reading horror is even more profound than that: it’s asking people to share real vulnerabilities of yours and open themselves up to their own..."

"...Just being a woman has an element of body horror to it. Childbirth? That’s some horror right there..."

"...there can be a temptation to sentimentalise or sanitise motherhood in popular culture..."

"...There’s something about an endless, open landscape where you can be properly lost, where the land can eat you, which isn’t that available to us in this day and age, and it has a particular effect on our minds and souls when we encounter it..."

"...Every monster has a story..."