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Catherine Spooner
@catherinespooner.bsky.social
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Academic and creative writer | Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University | all things Gothic | fashion | folk horror | she/her

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Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social · 4d
Lancaster’s first LGBTQ+ bookstore opened today on the charter market and look what I got! Brand new books by @louisewelsh00.bsky.social and @inkyrosey.bsky.social
Book covers of The Cut Up by Louise Welsh and We Call Them Witches by India Rose-Bower

Reposted by Catherine Spooner

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 20d
One of the projects you can support on Smelt is a new sitcom by me. It's called The Least Bad Of All Possible Worlds and it's about refugees from parallel universes trying to integrate into society in Morecambe. You can pledge to fund it here: if you fund it, we make it! mirlo.space/leadmojo/rel...

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Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social · Dec 30
How I’m walking out of 2025

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Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social · Dec 28
‘And oh, she was so pretty and so sweet, I could not choose but go.'

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Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social · Dec 23
Please someone remake It’s a Wonderful Life but from the POV of Violet narrating her adventures in Pottersville.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Dec 19
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Reposted by Catherine Spooner

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Dec 17
People say AI is a magic shortcut to creativity & success. I’ll tell you the real secret and it’s voraciously reading, being interested in everything, being diligent in the pursuit of learning, paying attention to the interior lives of others & keeping a heart open to the world.

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Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social · Nov 28
Thanks Elen! It’s great isn’t it?!

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Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social · Nov 28
Just officially launched this wonderful @sidekickbooks.bsky.social anthology which I contributed to... it's perfectly stocking-sized, just right for the vampire lover in your life! sidekickbooks.com/booklab/book...
Ten Poets Spend the Night in a Vampire's Castle - Sidekick Books
An anthology of vampire poetry, featuring erotic writing, horror, romantasy and paranormal romance.
sidekickbooks.com

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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · Nov 21
Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧

Reposted by Catherine Baker, Catherine Spooner

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · Nov 14
When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/

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Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social · Nov 6
Strong editorial in the Independent today www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
You don’t need a master’s degree to see Britain depends on foreign students
Editorial: The government’s effort to drive down the number of student visas coming to study in this country is misguided and self-defeating – it will do untold damage to our universities and communit...
www.independent.co.uk

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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · Nov 3
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

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Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social · Oct 31
I contributed to this one… guess what I chose?

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · Oct 30
From gruesome portraits to creepy critters, these are the paintings that have stayed with our experts long after their first glimpse.
The painting that haunts me – seven experts share their favourite scary artwork
From gruesome portraits to creepy critters, these are the paintings that have stayed with our experts long after their first glimpse.
tcnv.link

Reposted by Catherine Spooner

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · Oct 27
#BlackCatAppreciationDay
Big black cat on a window sill sniffing a pumpkin

Reposted by Catherine Spooner

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · Oct 26
How to Hibernate.

Scanned by us from the 1952 book Animal Fair, by the Provensens.

It’s time.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Oct 24
So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)

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Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social · Oct 17
My fab colleague Sharon Ruston on the new Guillermo Del Toro Frankenstein: theconversation.com/guillermo-de...
Guillermo de Toro’s Frankenstein: beguiling adaptation stays true to heart of Mary Shelley’s story
Guillermo del Toro’s retelling of the story about a scientist trying to create life is a visual treat and a rousing adaptation.
theconversation.com

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Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social · Oct 7
´It’s not about knowing. It’s about being present.´ Devastating essay on the power of gaps, errors, mishearing in the way we teach.

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · Oct 7
This beautiful, honest, tender essay is the best rebuttal of AI infected teaching and learning, by Sean Cho A. The happy accident of the seminar - best when it's a bit of a mess.
therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...
Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus
My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...
therumpus.net

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · Oct 6
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social · Oct 2
Free Gothic event alert! Panel discussion on Gothic Italy, in person at Goldsmiths or hybrid, Tuesday 7 October: bads.gold.ac.uk/gothic-italy
2025: Gothic Italy — BADS
BADS Jeudis 2025
bads.gold.ac.uk

Reposted by Justin Lewis, Catherine Spooner

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · Sep 30
My new novel, The Heist Of Hollow London, is published TODAY. The hardback may not be out in the UK yet - it's listed for the end of October here - but the ebook is certainly available now. Here are some links but please feel free to buy wherever you can find it: amzn.to/3IOGJRw
The Heist of Hollow London
The Heist of Hollow London eBook : Robson, Eddie: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
amzn.to

Reposted by Tim Bale, Michael H. Whitworth, Catherine Spooner

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · Sep 27
I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs.

This tax will kill us.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Student visas crackdown and new levies to cause ‘£1.8bn loss’ to UK economy
The Government has proposed a 6 per cent tax on international student tuition fees and a reduction in graduate visas
www.standard.co.uk

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · Sep 21
ANIMAL GHOSTS (1980): Spooky short story anthology centred around, well... animal ghosts. The cover is particularly striking - those animals are freaking out, man!

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Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social · Sep 18
🦇🎶It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

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Kevin Corstorphine @drkevcorstorphine.bsky.social · Sep 18
Heads up @igagoths.bsky.social - delighted to announce the CFP for IGA 2026: 'Gothic Selves/Artificial Others' hosted at the University of Hull 28-31 July! hullgothic.wordpress.com
Gothic Selves/Artificial Others
18th Biennual Conference of the International Gothic Association: 28-31 July, 2026. Hull, UK
hullgothic.wordpress.com

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Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social · Sep 18
Wrong emoji! 😢

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Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social · Sep 18
😥