Atypical Minds: A Collection of Findings and Original Tales

Atypical Minds: A Collection of Findings and Original TalesAtypical Minds is a unique collection of two elements that are rarely combined. It features academic findings on mental atypicality in fin de sicle Gothic short fiction, as well as six original short stories by author Simon Schothans. Informed by nearly two years of academic research, these short stories illustrate, adapt, and criticise fin de sicle traditions, engaging with topics such as pseudoscience, stereotypes, and even the occult. Feel the air

Atypical Minds is a unique collection of two elements that are rarely combined. It features academic findings on mental atypicality in fin-de-si�cle Gothic short fiction, as well as six original short stories by author Simon Schothans. Informed by nearly two years of academic research, these short stories illustrate, adapt, and criticise fin-de-si�cle traditions, engaging with topics such as pseudoscience, stereotypes, and even the occult.

Feel the air around you grow cold as this collection peruses such tales as the eerie 'The Yellow Wall-Paper', and exposes the frightening writings of Ambrose Bierce, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others. Then, when your nightlight starts to flicker, try not to shudder as you are thrown into the abyss of the distinctively tragic Gothic tales produced by Simon Schothans' uniquely atypical mind.

Simon Schothans was born in Zwolle, The Netherlands, in July 2001. He attended the Radboud University of Nijmegen, where he pursued a Bachelor in English Language & Culture. As part of the minor abroad programme, Simon attended the University of Hull, where he followed courses on creative writing and the Gothic. Having written his Bachelor thesis on animated flora as an EcoGothic transgression of the colonial-colonialist dichotomy between 1880 and 1920, Simon graduated in the Summer of 2023. During the last two years of his Bachelor, however, he additionally partook in the Honours Programme for Humanities, wherein he researched mental atypicality in fin-de-si�cle Gothic short fiction. This collection is a pro-duct of the latter research. Simon is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Literary Studies at the University of Groningen.