Julia Armfield: Most of the time, when you’re watching a horror film or reading a horror text, the monster is the most interesting thing. Could you tell me a bit more about where that idea came from?
The collection is full of them, but sometimes when the characters turn into monsters it seemed to be liberating. (No men were harmed in the making of this Q&A).Įllie Broughton: I wondered if we could start with talking about transformations. The stories are nothing if not gothic: whether it’s a zombie ex, neglected child, end-times floods, or jellyfish strandings, some grotesquerie always reveals itself before each climax to delight and/or horrify.Ī passionate horror fan from the spine-tingling to the unabashedly schlocky, Armfield gave up half an hour in her lunch break to talk It Chapter Two, ghostly visions on the Tube, and the unique cruelty of Catholic virgins.
More than murder, Julia Armfield’s debut short story collection also concerns itself with transformation: late puberty is a common setting, and so are sudden sproutings, unruly desires, metamorphosis, and independence.
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