Don't Go In There with T.L.Huchu, Xueting C. Ni & Sarah Maria Griffin

Brighton Book Festival welcomes the return of the Horror story.

Horror is back and it has undergone a metamorphosis, moving away from the classic horror style of writers such as Stephen King and embracing something much closer to home.

War, pandemics, genocide - these are the realities that the horror genre facilitates perfectly. Stories about the expression of female rage and what happens when something long suppressed finally ruptures.

So, are you brave enough to be in the room with some of literature's darkest minds.

We Dare you!

Saturday June 21st | 1pm

Sarah Maria Griffin is from Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of the novels Spare & Found Parts and Other Words For Smoke, which won an Irish Book Award in 2019. Her next novel, Eat The Ones You Love, will be published by Tor (US) and Titan (UK) in 2025. She writes about video games for The Guardian, and her nonfiction has appeared in The Irish Times, The Winter Papers, and The Stinging Fly, amongst other places. 

T. L. Huchu is a writer whose short fiction has appeared in publications such as Lightspeed, Interzone, Analog Science Fiction and Fact and elsewhere. The Library of the Dead won Best Novel at the Nommo Awards, presented by the African Speculative Fiction Society. And his work has also been short-listed for the Caine Prize and the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire. Between projects, he translates fiction from Shona into English and the reverse. He is the author of the Edinburgh Nights series.

Xueting C. Ni was born in Guangzhou. She is a graduate of English Literature from the University of London, post graduate in Chinese literature from Central University of Nationalities, Beijing, and has a Masters in Chinese studies from SOAS. For the past twenty years, Xueting has written extensively on Chinese culture and China's place in Western pop media, working with companies, institutions and festivals, to help improve understanding of China’s heritage, cultures and innovation, contributing to the BBC, the BFI, Art Review, as well as numerous lectures and podcasts.

She has created non-fiction works, including From Kuanyin to Chairman Mao (Weiser Books) and Chinese Myths (Amber Books), curated two volumes of fiction in translation, the award winning Sinopticon, and the critically acclaimed Sinophagia, as well as contributing to other collections including The Way Spring Arrives( Tordotcom)