This is a bit of an old project but since I hadn't started my blog before I finished this I thought I would dust it off and pop it onto here :) For my last project of first year I wrote and bound a short horror book about Selkies.
Selkies are folk creatures which originate from Northern Scotland. They are described as women who can transform into seals whenever they want by taking on or off a sealskin hood, and most stories about them revolve around men stealing their skins to force them to be their wives and taking away their ability to turn into seals.
Despite this quite sad depiction, the general perception of selkies is that they're sirens that try to lure men to their deaths, and I find this disparity between what really happens in the original stories and the way that they're spoken about quite interesting and tragic.
I can't really share the actual book I made on here, but I did make a short reading of the first chapter of the and uploaded it on youtube :) I tried to distort my voice to make myself sound all cool which was a bit silly because I'm not an audio engineer and it doesn't sound great, but feel free to check it out if you fancy it :)
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