I'm a writer and artist, sometimes professionally. I like Victoriana, ghosts, historical true crime, and cats, and I don't like noise or having appointments to keep. I have two psychology degrees and work at a research institute in Boston.
Favourite things
- Colour: Haint blue
- Ice cream: Mint chocolate chip
- Movies: The Conjuring, The Prestige, Speed Racer, That Thing You Do!
- TV series (currently airing): Good Omens, Our Flag Means Death, What We Do in the Shadows, Yellowjackets
- TV series (completed): The Haunting of Hill House, Fringe, Broadchurch
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsey
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
- The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
- A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder by Daniel Stashower
- The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
- Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery, and Arsenic by Kate Colquhoun
- The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale
- The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, or The Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
- The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the 19th Century’s On-line Pioneers by Tom Standage