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Alice's research primarily involves the intersection between storytelling and the history of medicine, with a particular interest in sleep disorders, hallucinations and parapsychology. Her debut narrative non-fiction book, Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It, was published by Icon Books in 2022 and was BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. She has given talks at Hay Festival, Cheltenham Literature Festival and Wellcome Collection, has appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Wales and Times Radio, and she has written articles for The Conversation, The Author,The i Newspaper and Canada's Globe and Mail. Her latest book, Ghosted: A History of Ghost-Hunting and Why We Keep Looking, will be published by Bloomsbury Sigma in September 2025. Alice is represented by Donald Winchester at Watson, Little literary agency.
Watch Alice's TEDxAberystwyth talk here: https://youtu.be/ZuPvkoDiSr0?si=T_TgpMeU6zeXIHbQ
She welcomes PhD applications exploring aspects of horror in fiction.
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Profiles
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'I have seen faces in the dark': Gothic Visions in the Society for Psychical Research's Census of Hallucinations
Vernon, A., 20 Feb 2024, Gothic Dreams and Nightmares. Davidson, C. (ed.). Manchester University Press, p. 184-200Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Nightmares, Neurosis and Clinical Psychology in the Short Stories of Shirley Jackson
Vernon, A., 29 Jan 2024, Shirley Jackson’s Dark Tales: Reconsidering the Short Fiction. Bloomsbury, p. 81-96 16 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It
Vernon, A., 06 Oct 2022, Icon Books.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Graphic Wales : Exploring identity, landscape and language in Carol Swain's Gast
Vernon, A., 01 Jul 2019, In: Studies in Comics. 10, 1, p. 7-25 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Beyond Girlhood in Ghibli: : Mapping Heroine Development Against the Adult Woman Anti-Hero in Princess Mononoke
Vernon, A. M., 11 Jan 2018, Princess Mononoke: : Understanding Studio Ghibli’s Monster Princess. Denison, R. (ed.). Bloomsbury, p. 115-129 15 p. (Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Colossal Bodies: Re-imagining the Human Anatomy in Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan
Vernon, A. M., 03 Aug 2017, In: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 8, 5, p. 480-493 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Sleep Standard: Analysing Modern Anxieties of Insomnia
Vernon, A. M., 01 Apr 2017, In: Excursions. 7, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Digital Sleep and the Performance of Lucidity in Paprika
Vernon, A. M., 10 Feb 2016, In: Performance Research. 21, 1, p. 115-119Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Thesis
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Someone Else Awake: Representations of Insomnia as the Modern Romanticised Illness
Vernon, A. (Author), Yallop, J. (Supervisor) & Francis, M. (Supervisor), 2018Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
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Press/Media
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The book that haunts me – seven experts on the scariest thing they’ve ever read
17 Oct 2023
1 Media contribution
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Ghosts: the uncanny similarity between the BBC comedy and a ‘real’ Victorian haunted house
10 Oct 2023
1 Media contribution
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The Nightmare of Sleep Paralysis Makes a Comeback in Modern Horror
09 Oct 2023
1 Media contribution
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Le "bed rotting", quand traîner au lit toute la journée nuit à notre psyché
03 Sept 2023
1 Media contribution
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Bed rotting: the social media trend the Victorians would love, especially writer Elizabeth Gaskell
18 Jul 2023
1 Media contribution
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Sleep paralysis: why modern horror is fascinated by old superstitions of troubled slumbers
11 May 2023
1 Media contribution
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Confessions of a sleepwalker: 'I do nightly battle with hallucinatory spiders'
05 Dec 2022
1 Media contribution
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BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week: Night Terrors by Alice Vernon
05 Dec 2022
1 Media contribution
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Activities
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Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It
Vernon, A. (Speaker)
03 Dec 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Into the Darkness: Exploring our Dreams and Nightmares
Vernon, A. (Speaker)
09 Oct 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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External Examiner for PhD Viva at Cardiff Metropolitan University
Vernon, A. (Examiner)
28 Sept 2022Activity: Examination
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Inner Workings: How We Understand and Imagine the Inside of the Human Body
Vernon, A. (Speaker)
04 Jun 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Writing the Night
Vernon, A. (Organiser)
30 Oct 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Workshop, Seminar, or Course
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Member of the Leadership Team for WISERD's Well-being Network
Vernon, A. (Consultant)
Aug 2021 → …Activity: Consultancy › Work on advisory panel to industry or government or non-government organisation
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Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (External organisation)
Vernon, A. (Member)
Aug 2021 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of working group or panel
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