Stephanie

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Gender Female
Industry Student
Occupation Research Student in Museum Studies
Location Leicester, United Kingdom
Introduction I've worked and volunteered in various capacities in a number of museums and heritage organizations, and am now studying for a PhD in Museum Studies.
Interests History, mythology, architecture, museums, cabinets of curiosity, silent films, funerary customs, illuminated manuscripts, poisons, drawing, The Cthulhu Mythos, costume, tightlace corsetry, burlesque
Favorite Movies Nosferatu, Labyrinth, Blade Runner, Metropolis, Akira, Asphalt, Fight Club, Shadow of the Vampire, A Fool There Was, The Devil's Advocate, Glory, Pandora's Box, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Ginger Snaps, Highlander, The Pianist, Orlando, Time Bandits, The Company of Wolves, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Dark City, Battle Royale, The Piano, Downfall
Favorite Music A bit of almost everything, but very partial to classic rock, heavy metal, goth and a wee bit of industrial...Nile, Celtic Frost, Emperor, Dimmu Borgir, Spectral Mortuary, Darkthrone, Karl Sanders, Alice in Chains, Defeated Sanity, Slayer, Metallica, My Ruin, Nine Inch Nails, The Last Dance, Evile, The Birthday Massacre, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, Samael, Leaether Strip, Sisters of Mercy, Corvus Corax, The Cassandra Complex, Theatre des Vampires, Metal Church, Amon Amarth, Fields of the Nephilim, London After Midnight, Zombie Girl, Dead Can Dance, Judas Priest, Gary Numan, Switchblade Symphony, Snake River Conspiracy, The Cure, David Bowie, Dark Funeral, The Ghost of Lemora, Bauhaus, Anders Manga, Hocico, The Sword, Skinny Puppy, Cinema Strange, Pantera, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Das Ich
Favorite Books H.P. Lovecraft- The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Strange High House in the Mist- all of it, really, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned and Tender is the Night, George Orwell- 1984, John Milton- Paradise Lost, J.R.R. Tolkien- The Lord of the Rings, Arthur Miller- The Crucible, Angela Carter- The Bloody Chamber, Grimms' Fairy Stories, Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen, Beowulf, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tanith Lee's Blood Opera series, Sandor Marai- Embers, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, American Gods, Smoke and Mirrors, Anansi Boys, Neverwhere and The Graveyard Book, Victor Hugo- Notre Dame de Paris, Bernard Cornwell's Arthurian trilogy, Catherine Arnold- Necropolis: A History of London and its Dead, the short stories of Edgar A. Poe and Franz Kafka

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