THE THRILL OF THE MORBID - A Quest into our Obsession with Horror
- Brompton Cemetery Chapel
Description
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Pop-Up, Something A Little Different and Theatre/Arts
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Tickets from £13.20
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Sat, 20th Oct 2018 @ 15:00 - 16:30
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15:00 - 16:30
For the past 18 months, horror-fan and priest Peter Laws has been on a wild mission to understand why humans have a morbid streak. The result is a fun and frightening romp through our macabre curiosities. From the hills of Transylvania to the catacombs of Rome, he's interviewed women who collect serial killer’s hair, men who sleep on mortuary slabs and self-proclaimed vampires who drink their boyfriend’s blood. He's been strapped into an electric chair by the BBC in Somerset, he’s hunted werewolves in Hull and been chased by zombies through the nuclear bunkers of Essex.
In this talk Peter Laws explores our pleasure in stories of violence and brutality uncovering whether this appetite for morbidity is for its own sake or in order to find safe ways of dealing with that which frightens and disturbs us? Do we perhaps gaze into the dark, simply because it’s fascinating? Maybe our attraction to the grim and the ghoulish might not be so much a sign of our depravity, but our humanity.
Tickets £12 including a Hendrick's Gin cocktail.
Peter Laws
Peter Laws is an author, journalist and ordained church minister with a taste for the macabre. He’s the creator of the acclaimed creepy crime novels Purged and Unleashed (Allison & Busby, 2017) and also the non-fiction book The Frighteners (Icon Books, 2018). He writes a monthly horror movie column for the Fortean Times magazine and presents the podcast and YouTube show, The Flicks That Church Forgot, which explores the deeper themes of horror.
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Tickets/Times
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The Thrill of the Morbid
Includes a Hendrick's Gin Cocktail
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15:00 - 16:30 | £13.20 |
Location
Address
Brompton Cemetery Chapel, Entrances on Fulham Road or Brompton Road, London, SW10 9UG
Nearest Station
West Brompton (Tube)
Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
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12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
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