Halloween
Reading · C2 · 3 printable sheets, each with an answer key.
Print the whole packOr open a sheet to print it on its own.
- Sheet 1 · 45 minHalloween: Dracula, a monster made of Victorian headlinesA long read on Bram Stoker's Dracula and the late-Victorian fears critics have found in it: reverse colonisation, modern technology, the New Woman and contagion.Premium
- Sheet 2 · 45 minHalloween: Edgar Allan Poe and the single effectA long read on Poe as a working magazine critic, his theory of the 'single effect' and the one-sitting tale, and how it shaped horror, detective fiction and the modern short story.Premium
- Sheet 3 · 45 minHalloween: down in the uncanny valleyA long read on Masahiro Mori's uncanny valley, its roots in Jentsch and Freud, the competing explanations for it and its lessons for animation, robotics and Halloween masks.Premium
