David Pirie

Author of ‘A Heritage Of Horror’, the seminal text on British Horror Films, David Pirie is also an author and screenwriter of repute. His first TV play ‘Rainy Day Women’ was directly inspired by aspects of Nigel Kneale’s ‘Quatermass II’. Later work includes the acclaimed ‘Murder Rooms’ series of novels and TV which explored the origins of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, an adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ ‘The Woman In White’ for TV, uncredited work on Lars Von Trier’s ‘Breaking The Waves’, and ‘Murderland’ starring Robbie Coltrane.


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    LIVE FROM MISKATONIC: NIGEL KNEALE’S ‘THE ROAD’ LIVE FROM MISKATONIC: NIGEL KNEALE’S ‘THE ROAD’
    Thu. Dec. 10, 2015 - 7:00 pm GMT - 10:00 pm GMT