Kate Mayfield

Still writing...

@sjroth21 Thank you very much for reading and taking the time to write your review.

@KateMayfield #TheUndertakersDaughter stephsbookblog.com/2025/11/06/the…

Mr. Frederick Teague Cansick's 1872 collection of epitaphs in 2 volumes. "curst be he that moves my Bones" #epitaph #stpancras #oldstpancraschurchyard

Halloween greetings from the Queen of the Night, goddess of the Netherworld. Old Babylonian terracotta from the 18thc BC. #Halloween

Bookselling Out thebaffler.com/latest/booksel… "Books can change the world; let the customer decide which ones." #BOOKS

How did horror become the great American art form? slate.com/culture/2024/1… via @slate

@kittywhately Thanks very much. I'm working on a new one.

@KateMayfield Good to see this. I loved the Parentations. Anything coming out any time soon? X

Still writing...

The universal belief in witches reveals our deepest fears – aeon.co/essays/the-uni… via @aeonmag '...globally it is women who are mostly identified as witches, in some societies – including the North American Navaho, and several African societies – most witches are men'

I'm flitting between @katemayfield.bsky.social over on the sky of blue, and kate_mayfield on Threads. For obvious reasons.

On Dracula's Lost Icelandic Sister Text lithub.com/on-draculas-lo… via @lithub Dark horses.

@DaleGothic96 Good lord.

Lovely to be quoted in the FT Weekend House & Home @ftproperty talking about the history behind high ceilings (as you do!) 😁 Thanks @Algoss #househistory #househistories

Available NOW. The Sirens Call ezine, including my story Split Reflection. There's lots of good stuff here & it's free! sirenscallpublications.com/ezine.htm #TheSirensCall #summer

All the ghosts are enjoying the low tide view. #Thames #ghosts #river

Paper Cuttings Made by 17th-Century Schoolgirls Discovered Beneath Floorboards - smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rar… @smithsonianmag

Our Mortal Waltz: The Dance of Death Across Centuries publicdomainreview.org/essay/our-mort… by Allison C. Meier

Art and Artifice, by Donna Tartt harpers.org/archive/2024/0… "Much of art happens, and has always happened, in the useless spaces between things, in the eerie psychic junkyard that Yeats called “the rag and bone shop of the heart.”

@DaleGothic96 Happy Birthday and happy days, Dale!

Organising books over the weekend I came across the wonderful John Harding. A generous author, patient and attentive. I adore his books. I met him a couple of times before he died and he graciously tolerated my author crush. In Memoriam.