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...
