Articles and Short Stories

This is a list of articles and short stories Louise has written for periodicals and books.

Selected articles on this page have links.
Two downloads below are available as .pdf downloads

Gothic Quest here
Interview with Robert Louis Stevenson here


Articles, Features and Reviewing Work

Review of Alice Thompson's The Existential Detective in The Scottish Review of Books (May 2010 - scroll down linked page)

‘Presentation Sisters by Tacita Dean’, review of video installation for international art journal, Picpus (Spring 2010, Pending)

‘A Hombre with a Gun’, review of Your Face Tomorrow Vol. 3, by Javier Marías, The Financial Times (November 2009)

‘James Pryde, the Edgar Allan Poe of Painting’
The Bottle Imp, Scottish Studies Ezine (Nov 2009)

‘Arthur Conan Doyle’s Other Lost World’, Comment is Free, Guardian.co.uk (25th May 2009)

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Theatre of the Brain, Journal of Stevenson Studies, Vol. 5, Ed. Prof Roderick Watson, Centre for Scottish Studies, University of Stirling (Jan 2009)

‘Murder They Wrote’, Essay Financial Times, death of the amateur detective? (23rd August 2008)

‘The Memory Man’, review of 'The Man Without' by Ray Robinson, The Guardian (9th August 2008)

‘Rings of Brodgar and Stennis’, Harbourfront Toronto Sacred Spaces project (3rd March 2008)

'On a Knife Edge', Feature on the origins of the legend of Sweeney Todd, The Guardian Review (20th Jan 2008)

‘Too Beautiful for You’, essay on crisis in Edinburgh’s housing for 'Shift', catalogue accompanying ACCESS to Architecture exhibition, also recorded as part of the exhibition, The Lighthouse, Glasgow (18th August – 14th October 2007)

‘Wrath – Scotland’s Seven Deadly Sins’,
Sunday Herald (12th August 2007)

‘Sympathy for the Devil’, Rereading of RL Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Guardian (Saturday Review, 9th June 2007)

‘Dead Funny’, Interview with Christopher Brookmyre, Waterstone’s Quarterly, Issue 25 (June 2007)

‘Snake in the Grass’ Short essay for programme, by Alan Ayckbourn, Pitlochry Theatre Co. (Summer 2007)

‘Rescuing Lady Chatterley’, Sunday Times Scotland
(20th May 2007)

‘In the Story – The Lasting Power of DH Lawrence’, Times Literary Supplement (30th March 2007)

‘Pasta, Present and Future’, Interview with Mary Contini, Sunday Herald (15th October 2006)

‘Building a Gothic Library’, The Independent, (24th July 2006)
‘Then I Moved to a Small Town in Bavaria’, The Guardian G2
(8th May 2006)

‘We all have dreaming minds: Gothic Nightmares’, a conversation with Patrick McGrath, Tate Etc, the Tate Gallery Magazine
(Issue 6 Spring 2006)

‘The Spy Who Loved to Scribe’, Review of Christopher Marlowe, Poet and Spy by Park Honan, Scotland on Sunday (13th Nov 2005)

‘Murder Stories can Unmask the Real World’, The Edinburgh Evening News (12th Oct 2005)

‘Edinburgh’s Vaults’ Observer Travel Section, (Sept 2005)
‘Trying to Make my Hideous Progeny Walk’ Chapman (Issue 107, 2005)

'The Night Song of the Last Tram' Review, by Robert Douglas, The Independent on Sunday (20th March 2005)

‘Not Just a Phase’, Cover Feature Article on TV soap The L Word, The Sunday Herald Magazine (31st October 2004) Reproduced on BBC’s religious and ethics news features website

‘Love at High Altitude’, Review of 'The Small g' by Patricia Highsmith, The Washington Post (11th July 2004)

‘An Interview With Robert Louis Stevenson’, Zembla (Issue 4, Spring/Summer 2004) Extract reprinted in The List (January 2007)

'Grains of Truth', Article on forensic and archaeobotany, The Times (Saturday 8th March 2004)

'Secrets and Riddles', review of The World of Christopher Marlowe by David Riggs, The Scotsman (2nd May 2004)

'Countercultures', Essay for Scottish Opera’s La Boheme Programme (April 2004)

‘Dying to Get in on the Act’, Cover Travel Feature, Account of Murder Mystery Weekend, Glasgow Herald Living Magazine (Sat 27th March 2004)

‘The Great Temptation’, Interview with novelist Alberto Manguel on Robert Louis Stevenson, Glasgow Herald (Sat 17th Jan 2004)

‘Tough Guys, Hard Cases’, review of Blow Fly Patricia Cornwall and Blacklist Sarah Paretsky, The Independent (31st October 2003)

‘Fear and Lothian’, Article on Scottish Gothic, Seven Page Colour Illustrated Feature, Sunday Herald Magazine (26th October 2003)

‘Short Cut to Stage’, Scotland on Sunday (12th Oct 2003)

Guest Editor

Guest editor Mslexia, selected submissions for inclusion and contributed introductory essay on crime fiction in general and published submissions in particular, Issue 19 (Oct/Nov/Dec 2003)


Further Reviewing Work

Review of 'The Works' by Joseph Connolly, The Guardian (2003)

Review of 'Vlad the Impaler: In Search of Dracula' by MJ Trow, The Guardian (2003)

Review of Dhabba restaurant, The Sunday Times, Ecosse, (9th March 2003)

Review of Fratelli Sarti Restaurant - ‘Goodfellas, but Good Enough?’, The Sunday Times, Ecosse (26th January 2003)

Review of'James McLevy Returns; Further Disclosures of the Edinburgh Detective', entitled ‘Diary of a Thieftaker’ The Scotsman (January 2003)

‘Mum Declared my Genius to the Check-In’, Scotland on Sunday, (15th Dec 2002)

‘A Few Winter Tales’, The Sunday Times, Ecosse (3rd November 2002)

‘Sick Boy Does Sex’, Review of 'Porno' Irvine Welsh, The Independent (Saturday 8th September 2002)

‘Step Right up your Table’s Waiting’ An account of the cabaret scene in Berlin. Cover feature article Escape (Travel section of The Observer) (11th August 2002) Reprinted in magazine digest, The Week

‘Me and My Book’, Punch Web (August 2002)

‘Bloodsuckers and Witches: Lesbians in Horror Films’, Cover feature article, DIVA (March 2002)


Introductions / Prefaces

'Fighting It', collection of short stories by Regi Claire,
Two Ravens Press (June 2009)

'Sub Rosa' a play by David Leddy,
Fairplay Press (January 2009)

'Selected Short Stories by DH Lawrence',
Ed. Sue Wilson, Penguin Books (March 2007)

'Kidnapped' by Robert Louis Stevenson, Canongate Books,
City of Literature One City campaign, 10000 free copies distributed (February 2007)

'Live and Let Die' by Ian Fleming,
Penguin Books (December 2006)