Writing

Books

UPCOMING: Death Lines: Walking London Through Horror Cinema

Short Fiction

“Confession” Bloody Good Horror (Hellbound Books, 2021)

“The Fog” Duplicitous: A WriteHive Compilation (Inked in Gray, 2021); Shortlisted, Write Hive Horror Fiction Prize.

“Smudge” The Chamber Magazine (May 2021)

“Toujours” BFS Horizons #12 (December 2020).  

Edited Volumes

“The Living and Dead Body in Foucault’s Clinical Gaze” in The Body In Theory: Essays After Lacan and Foucault. eds. Eric Daffron and Becky McLaughlin. (McFarland and Company, 2021).

“‘Cookie in her Casket’ as a response to the Medical Death” in And Death Shall Have Dominion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Dying, Caregivers, Death, Mourning, and the Bereaved, eds. K. Malecka and R. Gibbs. (Interdisciplinary Press, e-book, 2015) 

Selected Articles, Essays, & Reviews

“Chelsea’s Most Haunted Places” Sloane Street (October 2021)

“Digging Through Horror on the London Underground“. Horrified (Sept 2021)

“The Thames: Uncertain Depths in Horror Cinema“. Horrified (Feb 2021)

“Beauty and Alienation in Medical Photography”. Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine 41.2 (October 2018)

“Morell, Abelardo” in Grove Art Online (March 2018)

“Family Expressions of Pain in Postmortem Portraiture”. Studies in Visual Arts and Communication: An International Journal 2.1 (2015)

“The Faceless Portrait: Anonymity and Identity in Andres Serrano’s The Morgue”. HARTS & Minds 1.3, (February 2014)

“Family Ties: Reframing Memory”. Photomonitor (31 August, 2014)

“Review: History is Not Mine at the Paradise Row Gallery”. Ayyam Projects. (April 2013)

“The Last of the Dictionary Men: A Beautiful History, Protracted”. Ayyam Projects. (March 2013).

“Mourning in Absent Memorials”. International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2.13, (2012)

Please note that I have published under my previous married name (Lauren Summersgill) and my maiden name (Lauren Sapikowski)