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A C Turnhill

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Aug 29

‘The Inner Room’ — Robert Aickman’s Uncanny Architecture

A spooky doll tale with the power to unnerve

‘The Inner Room’ — Robert Aickman’s Uncanny Architecture

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Global Literary Theory: Poetics & Politics

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A C Turnhill

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May 6

A Message From Fate

On Iman Mersal’s Traces of Enayat and the ghosts we follow

A Message From Fate

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Global Literary Theory: Poetics & Politics

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A C Turnhill

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Feb 10

The Radical Power of a Woman Left Alone

How Rabih Alameddine maps solitude, survival, and the inner life as acts of resistance

The Radical Power of a Woman Left Alone

A C Turnhill

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Sep 26, 2025

Lost Letters

Holding on to Paper and Slowness in a Digital World

Lost Letters

A C Turnhill

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Jul 23, 2025

Confluences

Tiny bit of free writing / flash fiction based on a prompt by Chantelle Atkins here: A River That Becomes Alive

Mist over the river Mersey, author’s photograph,

A C Turnhill

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Apr 11, 2025

Reading Around the World — Belarus — Music for the Dead and Resurrected

Do you know what a ghost looks like? It looks like blood.

Reading Around the World — Belarus — Music for the Dead and Resurrected

A C Turnhill

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Mar 3, 2025

Skulls, Fairies and Boar’s Den - Unearthing the Unheimlich in my Hometown

Based on a prompt by Chantelle Atkins here (sorry it’s a bit late!): “Do you know your own patch or is there room left to explore? Often we…

Low mound in a green field, Boar’s Den roundbarrow, April 2023 (author’s photo)

A C Turnhill

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Dec 9, 2024

Around Paris With Good Morning, Midnight — Part 2

Gardens and fountains, the café, the street, the landing.

Around Paris With Good Morning, Midnight — Part 2

A C Turnhill

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Nov 28, 2024

Lithification

Tiny bit of free writing / flash fiction inspired by a prompt by Chantelle Atkins here.

Black and white photo of a statue of Enriqueta Augustina Rylands at the John Rylands library, Manchester

A C Turnhill

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Nov 27, 2024

5 Cost-Free Ways to Alienate Your Employees

Are you tired of looking at the same old faces every team meeting? Worried that you’ll never again get to experience the thrill of the…

5 Cost-Free Ways to Alienate Your Employees

A C Turnhill

A C Turnhill

I read stuff and muddle along. Hoping to write about books (I'm in the middle of a Read Around the World challenge), maybe some folklore and feminism too.

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