Welcome to my substack! Here you’ll find my ‘horror moments,’ light-hearted discussions of horror-coded themes and scenes from a wide variety of unexpected places. I also post about the history of magic, theatre, storytelling, and more. Subscribe for free or support my writing with a paid subscription.
About Me
I graduated from Cambridge with a PhD in English looking at how magicians were depicted on the early modern stage. As well as being a researcher, I am an award-winning writer whose recent play ‘Moderation’ followed the lives of social media moderators forced to see the worst things on the internet all day for a living. It transferred from an extended run at the Edinburgh Fringe to the Greenwich Theatre’s ‘pick of the Fringe season’ in October 2023.
I also recently collaborated with composer George Parris on an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Shadow’ which premiered at the Royal Academy of Music in January 2024. You can find out more about my writing and research here: rebekahkingwriter.com.
About the Substack
My grandfather began a blog on etymology in his 90s and wrote his last article two days before he passed away aged 94. In his honour, I want to practice the discipline of regularly writing about my passions, in my case the history of horror, theatre, magic, special effects, and more. Every Thursday morning, I will post a new ‘horror moment’ and a range of other articles will pop up on Monday afternoons.
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