An evening with Anna Bogutskaya

We're thrilled to welcome author, critic, film programmer, podcaster and creative producer, Anna Bogutskaya, to West Kirby, for the Merseyside launch of her latest book, FEEDING THE MONSTER: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us!
Join us on Thursday 24 October, 7pm when Anna will be in conversation with best-selling author, Alice Slater (Death of a Bookseller), before answering questions from the audience and signing copies of her books.
Tickets are £6/ £19 (inc. a copy of the book) and complimentary drinks will be provided.
Tickets are non-refundable, but if you can't make the event and would like a copy of FEEDING THE MONSTER signed/dedicated, email [email protected] and we'll be very happy to help.
About FEEDING THE MONSTER:

'I follow Anna Bogutskaya wherever she takes me. If your heart belongs to the dark side (and you're sick of having to apologise for it), you need this book. Spooky Girls Club 4 Eva.' --- Kirsty Logan
'Wonderfully written and highly detailed, Feeding the Monster is both a deeply personal love letter to horror movies and a thorough feminist analysis of them, and I fiercely love it. The cannibal chapter is chef's kiss.' --- Chelsea G. Summers
'Anna Bogutskaya takes us beyond bad dreams and beasts, the monsters, vampires, ghosts and ghouls, into the human heart pounding deep inside horror. Once more proving why her voice is so needed in the regrettably dick-heavy genre landscape.'

--- Terri White
Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding.
Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before, with horror characters and aesthetics infecting TV, music videos and even TikTok trends. Yet even with the commercial and critical success of The Babadook, Hereditary, Get Out, The Haunting of Hill House, Yellowjackets and countless other horror films and TV series over the last few years, loving the genre still prompts the question: what's wrong with you? Implying, of course, that there is something not quite right about the people who make and consume it. In Feeding the Monster, Anna Bogutskaya dispels this notion once and for all by examining how horror responds to and fuels our feelings of fear, anxiety, pain, hunger and power.
About ANNA BOGUTSKAYA:

Anna Bogutskaya is a freelance critic, author, film programmer and creative producers. She writes for BBC Culture, Guardian, MUBI, the Face, TimeOut, amongst others, and programmes films for BFI, Edinburgh Film Festival and Fantastic Fest. She produces and hosts The Final Girls podcast, created and produced the horror anthology podcast, Eerie, and has produced podcasts for Paramount, Studiocanal, BFI and Veritgo Releasing, as well as contributing to many others. Her first book, UNLIKEABLE FEMALE CHARACTERS: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate was published in the UK and the US in May 2023.

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