Professor @robertedgar.bsky.social shares an update on the myriad activities and impacts of the Hauntology & Spectrality Research Group at the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Research Group Snap Presentation afternoon.
#folkhorror #hauntology

CFP: PGR/ECR Symposium
Abstract deadline: 22 Oct 2025

Info:
blog.yorksj.ac.uk/hauntology/c...

#Hauntology #Folkhorror #Gothic #horror #cfp @bloomsburyspectres.bsky.social

We're at the York Literature Festival today 👻

1pm. Intro to Folk Horror & Pop Hauntology (with Rob Edgar & Adam J Smith)

2pm. In Conversation with Olivia Issac Henry

4.30pm. York Hauntologists read The Withered Arm

7pm. Bob Fischer's Haunted Generation

#YorkLitFest #FolkHorror

It's a great misdirect, beginning Rina's story in a 1960s commune, only for her to end up in a place where she's nostalgic for the relative normality of a cult compared to the weird, occult menace of Sorrow Spring. 1/2

#FolkHorrorFeb

Who is Jimmy, where is he and what was wrong with his mum? Who, or what are the Distaff? And why are the community at Sorrow Spring trying to recruit young girls....?

Post your comments, thoughts, theories from your first week of #FolkHorrorFeb reading below! 👻

If you're already following #FolkHorrorFeb or would like to join in, you can read at your own pace of follow the schedule below 👇

Excited to be on the editorial panel for this, check it out!

Very happy to be on the editorial board of this new series from Bloomsbury. Do get in touch with the editors if you have ideas or proposals 👻🦇

#FolkHorrorFeb starts tomorrow!!

The @yorkstjohn.bsky.social
Hauntology & Spectrality Research Group are counting down to their live interview with Olivia Isaac-Henry at @yorklitfest.bsky.social
on 8 March by leading a read-along of her novel Sorrow Spring & everyone is welcome to join in!

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Join us in York on Saturday 8th March for our HAUNTOLOGY, SPECTRALITY & FOLK HORROR DAY at the York Literature Festival, featuring:

Bob Fischer
Olivia Isaac-Henry
Robert Edgar & Adam Smith
York Society of Hauntologists

Book here: yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/

#FolkHorror #YorkLitFest

Out now in paperback - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/thomas-ha...

I'm so excited to announce that I am now an editor of Horror Studies, with the brilliant Dawn Keetley as our Managing Editor! www.intellectbooks.com/horror-studies

Our Bloomsbury Book Series "Spectres, Hauntings & Horrors" is run in association with the Hauntology & Spectality Research Group based at @yorkstjohn.bsky.social.

Find out more about the group's research, or sign-up yourself, here:

blog.yorksj.ac.uk/hauntology/

#Hauntings #FolkHorror

Our Bloomsbury book series examines those lingering revenants of the past & ghostly "lost futures" so central to the critical concepts of hauntology & spectrality.

Does this sound like your research? Then please, be in touch! 👻

#Hauntology #Hauntings #FolkHorror