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FIGHT AND FLIGHT RESPONSE

Growing up, Amanda Nell Eu loved a good ghost story. From urban legends and spine-tingling folklore to superstitions recounted by family members in solemn, foreboding fashion, these were cherished childhood memories for the young creative, signalling her emerging artistic inclination towards the genre of horror. One might wonder, did she scare easily as a child? Were these the tales typically used by her older siblings to petrify their unsuspecting younger sister for sport? But even at a young age, Eu realised her true calling was being at the other end of this spooky storytelling tradition; she wanted to be the one telling the stories, rather than the one spooked.

“I loved urban myths and folktales

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