Brought up in 1950s Jamaica the novelist Patricia Duncker, discusses the allure of the horror genre, and how she, too, is haunted by a ghostly presence.
Her new book, The Deadly Space Between, is described as a contemporary gothic fable, which draws from Sophocles's Oedipus Rex. Film critic and author Kim Newman also joins Jenni to explain how Gothic fiction - from Mary Shelley to Anne Rice is a particularly female form, which enables women writers and readers to unleash ideas about power structures. The Deadly Space between is published by Picador; ISBN 0330490095Dracula Cha Cha Cha is published in paperback by Pocket books; ISBN: 0671022091 Kim Newman biography Patricia Duncker biography
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