A Halloween celebration of gothic literature, queer imagination, and alluring darkness with Leon Craig and Jane Flett.
We'll be celebrating the new release of both Leon's The Decadence and Flett's Welcome to the Chaoskampf whilst also discussing wider topics of queerness & gothic writing.
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Leon Craig is the author of queer haunted house novel The Decadence (2025) and gothic short story collection Parallel Hells (2022), both Sceptre Books UK. Leon's fiction has featured in Hazlitt, Elsewhere: A Journal of Place, and Berlin Babel anthology among others. Her non-fiction has been published in the Sunday Times, the TLS and the Jewish Chronicle. Born in London, she now lives in Berlin.
Jane Flett is a queer Scottish author based in Berlin. She’s the author of Freakslaw (Penguin/Zando), a USA Today Bestseller, and Welcome to the Chaoskampf (Penguin). Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine and Passages North, and her short fiction has been commissioned by BBC Radio and highly commended in the Bridport Prize. She’s written for the Guardian, The Times, and Electric Literature, and is a recipient of the Berlin Senate Stipend for non-German literature. Jane is also the co-founder of Ink and Salt Retreats.
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