Fraser McKinnon
Atlantic history. Folklore. The gothic imagination.
See what others miss.
Your family stories, familiar places and everyday rituals hold more than you think. Learn to read their traces, question their silences and find the story worth carrying forward.
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Fraser McKinnon brings deep knowledge of Atlantic life, a novelist's command of the gothic and a rigorous eye for evidence. Put that expertise to work in how you see, question and write about the world.
Dead Media
Some voices never leave you.
Understand why a saved message can hold so much of a person.
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The Family Record
You carry more than a name.
Find the lives, silences and stories that made their way to you.
Trace your inheritance →What do you want to understand?
- Dead Media Make sense of the voices, messages and digital traces people leave behind. Explore →
- Folk Belief and Ritual Recognize the history inside the customs you still keep. Explore →
- Household Gothic Discover why the familiar can unsettle you more than the unknown. Explore →
- Place Read the histories of work, departure and belonging in the places you know. Explore →
- Possessed or Not Possessed Weigh the evidence behind notorious hauntings and reach your own verdict. Explore →
- Salt Weather Understand how the Atlantic shapes a place, a livelihood and a life. Explore →
- The Dark Archive Look past the spectacle of true crime and judge what the record supports. Explore →
- The Dead, the Remembered Find language for the ways people remain part of your life after death. Explore →
- The Family Record Look beyond the family tree to the lives and silences it leaves out. Explore →
- The House Keeps Things Recognize the memories carried by the objects you keep. Explore →
- The Work of Writing Strengthen your storytelling with a closer eye for voice, place and restraint. Explore →
- Until Further Notice See how official language shapes the uncertainty people live with. Explore →
A fresh way to see your world
Keep exploring →- Because You WatchedOn the algorithm still chasing a dead person's taste, and two selves blurred into one
- The House You Grew Up In, Now Someone Else'sOn the different-coloured door, and a place that moved on without you
- The Comfort of a Grey DayOn the weather that asks nothing of you, and the permission in a low sky
- Continue WatchingOn the show paused at thirty-four minutes, and the story they don't get to find out how it ends
- The Drive You Could Do in Your SleepOn the route your hands know, and the autobiography written in a road
- Emergency Kits and Magical ThinkingOn the batteries you'll never use, and what you were really packing
- Have You SeenOn the missing poster, and love forced out into the civic realm
- The Last Text From Someone Who's GoneOn the thread you can't delete, and the ordinary message that turned out to be the last
The Dark Archive
Trust your judgment. Sharpen it here.
A compelling story can outrun its evidence. Learn to spot the gaps, question the framing and keep the people behind the case in view. Bring your curiosity. Leave with a more discerning eye.
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