Come get scared with Elliott Gish! 😱
On Wednesday, October 15th at 7 pm, Elliott with join us in the Hazen Hall Lecture Theatre to read from her novel Grey Dog and chat with Dr. Rachel Friars about her writing and inspiration. 📖
About the book: In 1901, Ada Byrd — spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist — accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge. After a scandal during her last posting, Ada is grateful for the chance to re-establish herself somewhere she can begin anew. At first, things go well; she makes new friends, explores the woods, spends time with her students, and begins to see a life for herself in the rural community. Then, Ada begins seeing things: swarms of insects, a butchered rabbit, an uncanny fawn. The more she witnesses the more she believes something sinister lies behind the treeline. She is called to and repulsed by the figure she calls Grey Dog, leaving readers to wander between reality and delusion, desire and terror, and more.
Bio: Elliott Gish wants to creep you out. A writer and librarian from Nova Scotia, her short fiction has appeared in the New Quarterly, Dark Matter Magazine, Wigleaf, the Ex-Puritan, and many others. Her debut novel, Grey Dog, was published by ECW Press in 2024, and hailed by author Kelly Link (The Book of Love) as “a ripe, exquisitely rendered gothic in which wildernesses, both interior and natural, are dangerous, seductive, and bloody spaces,” and by author Heather O’Neill (The Capitol of Dreams) as “a bewitching tale of the horrors of spinsterhood in the early 1900s, with madness and magic threaded through every sentence.” Elliott lives in Halifax with her fiancée and a small black cat who may or may not be her familiar.
Admission is free and all are welcome! Light refreshments will be provided.
We are grateful to the Government of New Brunswick for supporting this series.
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