The author’s second book, Penance, is filled with tales of witchcraft and murderous Tumblr cults. Here, she discusses the absurdities of the true crime industry, and how Britain became a ‘pocket hell’ of its own design
is actually based on a couple of cases. The case that it’s most similar to is the Shanda Sharer murder, which happened in the mid-1990s in the states. It also draws some points of similarity from the Suzanne Capper murder, which was also a mid-90s thing in the UK. But once I realised I was going to be drawing from those cases, I decided not to do any additional research. I was just using the rough bullet points that I remembered, rather than doing a direct fictionalisation.
TW: Do you think true crime is, to some extent, more palatable when establishment media reports on it, rather than Netflix or podcasters?For me, the most considered and interesting sort of true crime reporting has been in longform books that spend a lot of time with the victim and the broader sociopolitical context of the murder, which is something that a book gives you space to do, rather than just an hour of documentary, where you’ve got to get people to go on to the next episode, or an...
“Seaside towns feel like a place that is universal in the British psyche, and the way those spaces shifted in the last half a century felt like very fertile ground” – Eliza Clark Seaside towns are just very interesting and universal places. Everybody has been to one; if they haven’t personally lived in one, they might have had one that they visited when they were a kid. It feels like a place that is universal in the British psyche, and the way those spaces shifted in the last half a century felt like very fertile ground to pick apart and embellish. It did take years to work out properly. It felt like world building, almost a speculative fiction kind of exercise.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Reproductive impact of changes in the vaginal microbiome of obese womenReproductive impact of changes in the vaginal microbiome of obese women imperialcollege microbiome vaginalmicrobiome BV DV microbiota obese womenshealth
Read more »
Notorious crime boss Curtis Warren arrested by 'Britain's FBI' in dawn raidNotorious crime boss Curtis Warren has been arrested by the National Crime Agency (NCA) in a dawn raid.
Read more »
Homophobic attack victim says 'I haven't slept' since gang beating'We have never in our life experienced anything like this'
Read more »
Man tries to nick ATM by subtly ramming stolen crane into side of Co-opSomething tells us this alleged robber needs to go back to the drawing board. They thought they wouldn't get caught if they slammed a crane into the side of a Co-op.
Read more »
Crunching the numbers: assessing Hungary's reluctance towards entomophagyCrunching the numbers: assessing Hungary's reluctance towards entomophagy Els_Nutrition UNIVET_Budapest insects entomophagy hungary eatinginsects nutrition diet
Read more »