David Evans-Powell

David Evans-Powell is a part-time doctoral candidate at the University of Birmingham, whose thesis examines existing frameworks that attempt to define folk horror. He currently works in the development office at Birmingham, having worked for almost a decade in the cultural sector. He has published several articles on the British horror website Horrifiedmagazine.co.uk , as well as monographs on the 1984 Doctor Who serial The Awakening (Obverse Books, 2020) and on the 1971 film The Blood on Satan’s Claw (Liverpool University Press, 2021). He is currently writing an article for Helleborezine for their forthcoming Unearthing issue, a series of articles for a Hammer Horror retrospective at Horrifiedmagazine , and an essay for a planned collection on critical approaches to horror in Doctor Who .