by Sarah Rayne | Oct 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
I seldom attend parties unless I think they might be of use in my career, so it was all the more remarkable to find myself attending this one. This reticence is not due to shyness, you understand, nor to a lack of self-confidence – I value myself and my attainments...
by Sarah Rayne | Oct 5, 2015 | ancient legends, charect, ghost stories, ghosts, haunted houses, old diaries
The haunted house series, featuring Michael Flint and Nell West, was born several years ago, when I was asked to write and present a ghost-story evening at a local historic house. There were so many legends attached to the place it was almost a question of...
by Sarah Rayne | Sep 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
When, some years ago, an editor commissioned a series for the re-telling of modern fairytales, I had a terrific time writing them, but I saved what I believed to be the best until last. Little Red Riding Hood has to be one of the most famous of all children’s stories,...
by Sarah Rayne | Sep 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
It was, admittedly, a strange request to make, and it must have sounded very peculiar indeed over the phone, because initially the voice at the other end was suspicious. ‘What kind of research for a novel?’ I explained. ‘I need to know if a church organ can make any...
by Sarah Rayne | Sep 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s a fact of life that there are times when the shadow can be mightier than the substance. Over ninety years ago the German film-maker F.W. Murnau chilled cinema audiences with the 1922 silent movie, Nosferatu. It’s still chilling people today, and probably the...
