Summary: Michael Caines reports on an unprecedented gathering of work by William Hogarth, “replete with a bitter exuberance, folly finely observed and sin satirized”; “Sometimes a dark and stormy night calls for nothing more innovative than a classic chilling tale.” Joanna Scutts considers three new compendiums of the spooky and the macabre; Les Green makes a case for changing the UK's constitution (writing it down in one place being a good start...) Hogarth: Place and progress, at the Sir John Soane’s Museum, until January 5, 2020 A Quaint and Curious Volume: Tales and poems of the gothic Women’s Weird: Strange stories by women, 1890–1940, edited by Melissa Edmundson Promethean Horrors: Classic tales of mad science, edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes <br><hr><p style="color: grey;">See <a style="color: grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
