W elcome to our ninth festival, celebrating Frankenstein's bicentenary with Fiona Sampson's 2018 biography of Mary Shelley. Explore new gothic novels, rebuilding the gothic Houses of Parliament, ancient woodlands, the ghost, umbrellas, dying, spying, witches, and houses in fiction. Enjoy a literary lunch and WI tea. Get creative at the poetry-writing and letter-press workshops. Watch the film of the Australian gothic novel Picnic at Hanging Rock. Rediscover Paradise Lost with John Carey. Learn more about Dracula, Northanger Abbey, and Grenfell Tower.

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