Experts Elizabeth Kim and Elizabeth Dearnley will be in conversation about their spooky books 'Haunted Yorkshire' and 'The Book of Beasts'

This is going to be a fascinating event, perfect for fans of folklore, the supernatural and all things weird. Join author Elizabeth Kim and editor Elizabeth Dearnley as they chat about their intriguing books Haunted Yorkshire and The Book of Beasts.

Date: Friday, 25 September

Time: 7-8.30pm

Tickets: £7

Venue: The Grove Bookshop, 10 The Grove, Ilkley, LS29 9EG

Tickets can be purchased in the shop or here via Eventbrite.

Refreshments will be served.

Refunds available, minus the Eventbrite fee, up to 3 days before the event.

Our Guests

Elizabeth Kim's 's writing has appeared in places such as BBC Culture, Mslexia, Hellebore, Fiddler's Green, Litro, The Guardian, The Independent, Refinery29, and the LA Review of Books. She is the founding editor of Cunning Folk, the popular independent magazine about magic, mythology, folklore and the occult. She grew up in the rural West Country and now lives in Scotland. The Book of Beasts is her debut book.

Elizabeth Dearnley is a folklorist, writer, artist and Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University whose work explores fairy tales, horror, eerie landscapes and collaborative storytelling.

Alongside her work at Edinburgh Napier, Elizabeth regularly gives talks and leads creative writing workshops around the UK and beyond, and also teaches courses on folklore, film and psychoanalysis at the Freud Museum London. Her writing has appeared in publications including The White Review, Hellebore, the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement, she is an editor for the British Library's Tales of the Weird and Gilded Nightmares series, and is writing a book about fairy tales, horror and 80s fantasy films.

About the books:

The Book of Beasts by Elizabeth Kim

A modern bestiary with an ancient heart: meet twelve emblematic animals and restore your relationship with the natural world.

The bear deities, Artio and Artaius, who’ll rise from sleep; the salmon of wisdom who gifts understanding of the universe’s past, present and future; the Lion Man carved 40,000 years ago. Join Elizabeth Sulis Kim as she travels across the globe and through time, from our deep past into the future, bringing together the animals which have captivated us for millennia.

Steeped in folklore, mythology, magic and religion, The Book of Beasts tells the story of our shapeshifting relationships with animals, from reverence to persecution, friendship to fear, awe to indifference. It asks us what we actually know about the creatures we share this world with – and offers us a different way of living together.

Haunted Yorkshire edited by Elizabeth Dearnley

Yorkshire: a land entwined with a distinctive tradition of uncanny literature and folklore, home to twilit towns thronging with restless ghosts, woods alive with the whispers of fairies and vast moorlands stalked by boggarts and barghests after dark.

Exploring Yorkshire’s position as a heartland of British supernatural fiction, the stories and poems gathered here trace its weird literary heritage from medieval tales of shapeshifting spirits to the Gothic worlds of the Brontë sisters, and from wartime hauntings to modern folk horror. Including local legends from rare sources and unsettling stories from Arthur Machen, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Andrew Michael Hurley and many more, this collection offers glimpses of a stranger England hidden among the shadows of the dales.

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