Kate Mayfield

Excavating the uncanny. Author of The Parentations, a novel, and The Undertaker's Daughter, a memoir. Repped by @oliagent @AMHeathLtd

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Still writing...

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@sjroth21 Thank you very much for reading and taking the time to write your review.

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Mr. Frederick Teague Cansick's 1872 collection of epitaphs in 2 volumes.
"curst be he that moves my Bones"
#epitaph #stpancras #oldstpancraschurchyard

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Halloween greetings from the Queen of the Night, goddess of the Netherworld. Old Babylonian terracotta from the 18thc BC. #Halloween

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Bookselling Out https://t.co/YQDzJy7CYy
"Books can change the world; let the customer decide which ones." #BOOKS

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How did horror become the great American art form? https://t.co/Br7lztsIiM via @slate

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@kittywhately Thanks very much. I'm working on a new one.

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Still writing...

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The universal belief in witches reveals our deepest fears – https://t.co/FAEi8euEDR via @aeonmag
'...globally it is women who are mostly identified as witches, in some societies – including the North American Navaho, and several African societies – most witches are men'

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I'm flitting between @katemayfield.bsky.social over on the sky of blue, and kate_mayfield on Threads.
For obvious reasons.

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On Dracula's Lost Icelandic Sister Text https://t.co/o8KJBP4EW9 via @lithub Dark horses.

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@DaleGothic96 Good lord.

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Lovely to be quoted in the FT Weekend House & Home @ftproperty talking about the history behind high ceilings (as you do!) 😁 Thanks @Algoss #househistory #househistories

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Available NOW. The Sirens Call ezine, including my story Split Reflection. There's lots of good stuff here & it's free!
https://t.co/QvcMW82ajB
#TheSirensCall #summer

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All the ghosts are enjoying the low tide view. #Thames #ghosts #river

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Paper Cuttings Made by 17th-Century Schoolgirls Discovered Beneath Floorboards - https://t.co/OwHfUwJB63 @smithsonianmag

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Our Mortal Waltz: The Dance of Death Across Centuries
https://t.co/7imQrhcVdH by Allison C. Meier

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Art and Artifice, by Donna Tartt
https://t.co/2EkKrtRPJg "Much of art happens, and has always happened, in the useless spaces between things, in the eerie psychic junkyard that Yeats called “the rag and bone shop of the heart.”

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@DaleGothic96 Happy Birthday and happy days, Dale!

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Organising books over the weekend I came across the wonderful John Harding. A generous author, patient and attentive. I adore his books. I met him a couple of times before he died and he graciously tolerated my author crush. In Memoriam.