Location: Belfast City Hall, Exhibition Rooms 7, 8 and 9
Dates: 1st October 2024 – 31st March 2025
Set in the heart of Belfast City Hall, this magical visitor exhibition uses cutting-edge digital augmented reality technology to offer visitors interactive ways to explore the stories of Belfast.
Visitors are invited by an animated seahorse from the Belfast Coat of Arms to experience the digital magic of augmented reality as the city’s hidden river is revealed, walls crumble to uncover secret passageways, and books open to let their stories take flight.
The immersive journey begins in a virtual library, where you can explore Belfast’s words and accents. Flying books tell their stories, and portraits reveal interactive hidden secrets.
I’m incredibly proud to have been involved in this project in my parents’ home city; I collaborated on two featured exhibits, and created the city-scape story “The Chip And The Poke”.
Belfast City Hall Augmented Reality Exhibition
Augmented Reality Brings Magic to Belfast
HORRORific Tales Volume 4: Eldritch Terror
Eldritch (adj) – unearthly, supernatural, uncanny; inspiring fear, especially of the unknown..
HORRORific Tales Volume 4: Eldritch Terror, edited by Colin C. Martin was released 12th December 2025, and I’m delighted that my short story The Ferry is featured.
This anthology brings together eleven stories steeped in cosmic dread, uncanny experiences and glimpses of long forgotten gods, inspired by the cosmic horror stories popularised by H.P. Lovecraft, and carried on by lovers of the unknown, and the unknowable.
Featuring stories by Dan Henk, Eli Beals, Miguel Gaspar, Katie Marie, James Hyde, Lee Swift, Ivan K. Conway, Chris Androu, Anthony M Caro, Al Lytle and Margaret McGoverne.
About Margaret
Margaret McGoverne is a UK-based author of flash fiction, short stories, and novellas. Her fiction doesn’t fit neatly into one genre; she writes stories that are darkly speculative, uncomfortably psychological, or straight up horrific.
Margaret has also collaborated in creative non-fiction projects in both England and Northern Ireland.
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