Leon Craig on misunderstanding ghosts and getting what we want

Описание: I’m looking forward to diving into the crumbling and the haunted this week with Leon Craig. 



We’re discussing Leon Craig’s THE DECADENCE.



And you the listener picked Leon as one of the rising stars of literature that you wanted me to interview.



Have you ever walked past an old abandoned house and wondered what kinds of lives were lived there? Have you ever dared to explore one? Perhaps you wanted to escape and hide in the house. Or perhaps you wanted to use it for something a little more nefarious.



Leon Craig, whose previous collection of short stories, PARALLEL HELLS, was also published by Sceptre, is a graduate of the Birkbeck MFA Creative Writing course. Her work has been published by Hazlitt, the Sunday Times, the London Magazine and others and is forthcoming in Nulla magazine and Berlin Babel anthology.



 



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Episode Chapters



1.30 - rising literary stars poll

3.30 - The crumbling haunted house

6.30 - the ensemble cast 

7.25 - early hauntings. 

10.10 - misunderstandings and humour 

11.50 -embracing imperfect characters.

14.25 - secret passageways 

16.05 - sexual elements to hauntings. 

19.10 - colonial legacies and trespassing

22.55 - Rippling Pages Patreon

24.20 - on beauty  

27.00 - getting what we want. 

29.50 - desire and disgust 

32.00 - The country housegenre

37.15 - Leon’s next novel



 



Reference Points



House of Leaves (2000, Mark Z. Danielewski).



Saltburn (2023, dir. Emerald Fennell)



Beowulf



The Great Gatsby (1925, F.Scott Fitzgerald)



White is for Witching(2009, Helen Oyeyemi)



Brideshead Revisited (1945, Evelyn Waugh)