Discussing the work of Catherine Wells, mountains and alchemism with Emelyne Godfrey #VPFAExtremes

Science and the Imagination 1 panel starting now in the Dickens room, talking bodies living and dead 💀 #VPFAExtremes

‘The sea-worm creeps —grotesque, unweeting, mean, content’ (Hardy, ‘The Convergence of the Twain’, May 1912 version)…. But what makes the sea-worm content? Asking the deep (sea) questions #VPFAExtremes

Some of the “strange” and monstrous creatures of the Deep #VPFAExtremes

‘Yet no fiction is more strange than the bottom of the sea’ (“Pelagius”, ‘Neptune’s Museum’). Oh the Gothic potential of sea mud #VPFAExtremes

First keynote, The Submarine Gothic beginning now in the Charles Dickens room 🦈🦈🦈 #VPFAExtremes

Kicking things off with Panel 1 with Caroline Sternberg speaking on Penny Fiction - home to extreme themes and reactions #VPFAExtremes