Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird - Janette Leaf

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Janette Leaf is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck, and has presented on Richard Marsh's late Victorian bestseller, The Beetle , and nineteenth-century Egyptology in London and the provinces. She is also a reviewer for Cambridge University Press and the British Society for Literature and Science. Daisy Butcher is a Doctoral Student working on the Open Graves, Open Minds Project at the University of Hertfordshire. Her study focuses on depictions of the feminine in gothic and weird fiction, including particular discussion of female mummies, vampires, and of course, the killer plant.