The Goreyist Adaptation of Dracula open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

If you're in London tomorrow catch this hour-long triple bill of strange and scary operas written by young librettist/composer teams. My libretto the middle one which is based on real witch trial records. And there's also a modern Medea and singing bananas... www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/peeled...

If you're in London tomorrow catch this hour-long triple bill of strange and scary operas written by young librettist/composer teams. My libretto the middle one which is based on real witch trial records. And there's also a modern Medea and singing bananas... www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/peeled...

Powers of the Air by J.D. Beresford open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

I'll be at EDGE-LIT tomorrow in Derby. I'll be on a panel called CAME BACK HAUNTED: HOW TO FRIGHTEN AUDIENCES and in the evening I'll be launching AT THE CHANGE OF THE MOON and being interviewed about it. Link to buy ticket in comments below. See you there if you're going!

Is this the Scariest Picture Book? open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

Is this the Scariest Picture Book? open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

Who wants to hear me talk about the Dance of Death? That’s what I’m going to be doing on Thursday - it’s online, and you can get tickets here: thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/will-y...

The Devil and the Printing Press open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

Beware Demonic Pets – The Disrespectful Summons open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

🚨Coming this October - the Beyond Wyrd Revels! A season of Wyrd and eerie plays, recording for the pod, at the White Bear in Kennington. 🧙‍♀️Catch The Witch of Edmonton, the cunning of The Wise-woman of Hogston, a cycle of horror in Thyestes & 😈Demons in Doctor Faustus: plus panel discussions and more!

Such a great book. Did you ever see the school shooting version that Mad Magazine published about a decade ago? Brilliant stuff, haunting. imgur.com/gallery/ghas...

So excited for the new series of Horror Moments — Edward Gorey edition!! There will be child sacrifices, pet demons, invasive houseguests, sinister sofas and doleful tarot decks and more in my latest set of articles on horror in unexpected places. open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

So excited for the new series of Horror Moments — Edward Gorey edition!! There will be child sacrifices, pet demons, invasive houseguests, sinister sofas and doleful tarot decks and more in my latest set of articles on horror in unexpected places. open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

I’m sad I’ve already got my copy - these are gorgeous!

Conjuring fear through music? How we Made an Opera about the Witch Trials open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

Conjuring fear through music? How we Made an Opera about the Witch Trials open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

Keep hearing some buzzing about performing Marlowe more... obviously we're doing Doctor Faustus twice in October so... you know... do the thing. If you want to. It's not like you're signing your life away. In blood. www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...

“Christopher looks up from the sausage feeding to see a man at the window, a dead man wrapped in tarpaulin. He clearly wants to get in, get to us, evoking all those horror stories where something sinister comes tapping on the window...”

I’m sad to be saying goodbye to my series of horror moments in The Sopranos but what a fun article to end on! "In the Czech Republic too we like pork. Ever had our sausages?" open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

The Demon that Kicks Men in the Balls open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

The poster and flyer for “Uncle Vincent” I can’t wait to perform this beautiful new play by @rebekahking.bsky.social in theatres from Aberdeen to Smailholm, and everywhere in between!

Destined for hell? When characters glimpse a frightening afterlife. open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

REBEKAH IS AMAZING. THAT IS ALL.

So pleased to have received my gorgeous copy of 'At the Change of the Moon' by Bernard C Blake, newly edited and published by @johnnymains.co.uk for Mislaid Books. An underappreciated gem! Hardback available here: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FKH9GMF8

When you wake up from a nap to hear that your neighbour’s child has started learning the recorder.

Quiz! Marvellous Magicians open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

May I also add to this thread of early modern images of happy student life?

Today I learned that Herman Melville is responsible for the world’s meanest description of penguins.

Anyone else still traumatised by this children’s tale? open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

I was wondering today whether, if giraffes *could* yodel, they’d have to yodel…slower? Because it would take longer to move between head voice and chest voice with the long necks? Is that how it works?

A Ghost on Set? Haunted Films and TV Shows open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

You might THINK the answer is no... and yep, yep, you'd be right. open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

If anyone is in London this October, I’ll be speaking about horror on the early modern stage as part of Beyond Shakespeare’s ‘Wyrd Revels’ season. What better way to celebrate the spookiest (i.e. the best) month? Early bird tickets here, my panel is on 25th: www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...

The Fear of Someone Listening... open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

If you have an interest in the weird and horrible, fill your head-jelly with Dr King's Curiosities—celebrating an authorial anniversary today! One of the handful of regular emails I actually enjoy reading.

Thank you so much, Alexander, that’s so kind!!

I just watched an X-Files episode where a man could regrow his own head but apparently not reverse his male pattern baldness. What a show…

And you can find out more about our explorations of the Wyrd world of early drama by catching our Wyrd Revels, a season of plays recording live in October. Early access tickets are available now for free subscribers to our patreon. #horror #EMHorror #Drama #WyrdRevels www.patreon.com/posts/revels...

🚨How early can we apply the term Horror to drama? Is early modern, or even medieval, too early? And if we can - and we kinda are - which plays fit that bracket best? A chat with @rebekahking.bsky.social about horror, the early modern, and much besides. #drama audioboom.com/posts/874911...

'If only I could kill my mother...' The horror of forbidden thoughts open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

I don't know who emotionally needs this right now, but here's a bunch of big creature animatronics from the late '90s

I'm writing a chapter for this! About magic, of course. Thank you @benbroadribb.bsky.social‬ for overseeing this project, I loved having the chance to write about something so modern. Now to retreat back into weird Jacobethan theatre where I belong...

Very happy to say I will be spending a lot more time with these books over the next year or so, as this week I've signed a contract with @manchesterup.bsky.social to edit the first ever academic collection of essays on the landmark BBC anthology series Inside No. 9 🥳 #InsideNo9