Table of Contents

Introduction – Richard V. Hirst & Dan Coxon
Negative Spaces and Ambiguity: A Toolkit for Writing Uncanny Fiction – Lucie McKnight Hardy
A Many-Storied House – Michèle Roberts
Finding the Comedy in the Blatantly Unfunny: A Personal Journey Through Three and a Half Tales of Unease – Robert Shearman
Spotlight on… Shirley Jackson: Personal Experience in the Uncanny – Alison Moore
Half-Concealed Places, or a Particularly Humdrum Uncanny – Gary Budden
Beach Reading – Nicholas Royle
Potluck: Making the Most of Your Little Horrors – Chikodili Emelumadu
In the Forest, Stories Grow: Writing Uncanny Fiction with Fairy Tales – Claire Dean
Spotlight on… Robert Aickman: Seeing by the Moonlight: Thoughts on ‘The Hospice’ and Robert Aickman – Jeremy Dyson
Seeing Things and Saying Things: Writing the Ghost – Jenn Ashworth
Haunting the Text: Housing Ghosts in Fiction – Catriona Ward
All You Have to do is Die – Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Spotlight on… Sigmund Freud: ‘You Must All be Very Worried’: Freud’s Uncanny and Hoffman’s ‘The Sandman’ – Timothy J. Jarvis