The Haunted and Cursed Dolls in Greyfriars Bothy, Dr Louise Fenton Talk

Inside Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh, famous for Greyfriars Bobby, is a bothy. The bothy is owned by City of the Dead Tours and on the outside of the building is a notice that ends with the words "Oh and did we mention about our haunted and cursed doll collection we also have inside here…?" Dr Louise Fenton introduces the collection of dolls that resides within a cabinet in Greyfriars Bothy and tells some of their stories, from dolls that are believed to harm people, are haunted and that set fires to the oldest dating back to the nineteenth century.

This is a fully illustrated talk for Halloween.

Dr Louise Fenton is a writer, illustrator and cultural historian. Following her first degree in Illustration from Wolverhampton Polytechnic Louise has completed an MA in Illustration from the University of Wolverhampton. It was at this time that her interests moved towards the representations of marginalised cultures. She completed a PhD on the Representations of Vodou at the University of Warwick in 2010. Louise is now a senior lecturer in Contextual Studies. Recent research has been focused on the visual and literary representations of otherness including Voodoo, Witchcraft and Zombies.

Her interests lie in representational and cultural discourses around Visual Communication and popular culture with a focus on the US and Caribbean.