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Alice Bellette is a Palawa descendant, a poet, musician and scholar based in Melbourne. In 2021, she was undertaking a PhD in literary studies. She is also the creator of the limited-series podcast Welcome?, which explores colonised landscapes.
'I’M SURE that without giving a specific example you would be able to generate a mental image of gothic horror, even if it resembles something like Bela Lugosi as Dracula or Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster – images that have been immortalised (pun intended) in the collective conscious by the success of Universal Studios’ early 1930s run of pre-code genre cinema.' (Introduction)
