Pass the scalpel: lessons in horrorgami
Freddie Krueger, Frankenstein, the Addams Family … Mark Hagan-Guirey has taken a blade to them all. The dark king of kirigami gives Stuart Jeffries a crash course in the Japanese paper art. Will there be blood? At the end of his short story The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe describes a blood-red moon shining through a fissure that jags across the facade of an ancestral mansion – just before the whole thing collapses. As a little boy growing up in Newry, Northern Irelan
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