Henry Bartholomew
@henrybartholomew.bsky.social
Teacher, scholar, editor; PhD, FHEA; Academic Skills Lecturer at GBS. Interested in the Gothic, the weird, ghost stories, objects, Speculative Realism, Algernon Blackwood 🌲 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Henry-Bartholomew
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Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - gothic: Vol 27, No 3
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Publication day! My special issue on Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic is officially out: www.euppublishing.com/toc/gothic/c...
My heartfelt thanks to all the contributors. So much in here - will cover in future posts. The issue positions B as a major force in C20th British Gothic.
My heartfelt thanks to all the contributors. So much in here - will cover in future posts. The issue positions B as a major force in C20th British Gothic.
Publication day! My special issue on Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic is officially out: www.euppublishing.com/toc/gothic/c...
My heartfelt thanks to all the contributors. So much in here - will cover in future posts. The issue positions B as a major force in C20th British Gothic.
My heartfelt thanks to all the contributors. So much in here - will cover in future posts. The issue positions B as a major force in C20th British Gothic.
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - gothic: Vol 27, No 3
www.euppublishing.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Publication day! My special issue on Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic is officially out: www.euppublishing.com/toc/gothic/c...
My heartfelt thanks to all the contributors. So much in here - will cover in future posts. The issue positions B as a major force in C20th British Gothic.
My heartfelt thanks to all the contributors. So much in here - will cover in future posts. The issue positions B as a major force in C20th British Gothic.
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Join me online with the Viktor Wynd museum on 26th October, 8pm (GMT) for a talk on "Spectral Embodiments: Manifesting and Visualising the Ghost Child" 👻🖤
LOADS of other amazing talks available throughout the year too; check out The Last Tuesday Society!
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LOADS of other amazing talks available throughout the year too; check out The Last Tuesday Society!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manifestin...
Manifesting and Visualising the Ghost Child - Dr Jen Baker - Zoom
This talk examines the transformation of the ghost-child figure from oral folklore and legends to their literary incarnations in culture
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October 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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The cover of my upcoming special issue of @gothicstudies.bsky.social - 'Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic' - is here! Eight essays on Blackwood's fiction, delving into questions of genre, war, empathy, occultism, and much more. Full issue out soon! @edinburghup.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The cover of my upcoming special issue of @gothicstudies.bsky.social - 'Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic' - is here! Eight essays on Blackwood's fiction, delving into questions of genre, war, empathy, occultism, and much more. Full issue out soon! @edinburghup.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social
Something cosmic this way comes... the special issue of Gothic Studies I have been working on - Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic - is now in production ready for its November publication. Thrilled with the depth and breadth of insight and expertise from the contributors. More updates soon!
October 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Something cosmic this way comes... the special issue of Gothic Studies I have been working on - Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic - is now in production ready for its November publication. Thrilled with the depth and breadth of insight and expertise from the contributors. More updates soon!
The wondrous Algernon Blackwood was born on this day in 1869! Excited to say that I am currently editing a special issue of Gothic Studies on ‘Blackwood and the Gothic’ due Nov. Features a truly fantastic line-up of contributors. I can’t wait for people to read it.
March 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The wondrous Algernon Blackwood was born on this day in 1869! Excited to say that I am currently editing a special issue of Gothic Studies on ‘Blackwood and the Gothic’ due Nov. Features a truly fantastic line-up of contributors. I can’t wait for people to read it.
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The most uncanny thing I've learnt from @henrybartholomew.bsky.social's excellent Handheld Press edition of Algernon Blackwood's writings is that—before turning to weird fiction—he tried to open something called 'the Hub'. Presumably bean bags, open plan desks, big lamps, Starbucks, no microwave.
February 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The most uncanny thing I've learnt from @henrybartholomew.bsky.social's excellent Handheld Press edition of Algernon Blackwood's writings is that—before turning to weird fiction—he tried to open something called 'the Hub'. Presumably bean bags, open plan desks, big lamps, Starbucks, no microwave.
Some fantastic prices here. You can pick up a copy of my books ‘The Unknown’ and ‘The Living Stone’ for £5 each! Last chance to support a small publisher before they close 👻
The Handheld Press Grand Closing Sale has been going so well that we're continually running out of popular titles. But we've found some more! Check back at www.handheldpress.co.uk to see what's available again. Only single copies, but you might catch the one you really wanted ... 📚💙🧙♀️
Homepage - Handheld Press
Handheld Press sells wonderful stories from the past and the present. Our books are beautiful, designed and laid out with care.
www.handheldpress.co.uk
January 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Some fantastic prices here. You can pick up a copy of my books ‘The Unknown’ and ‘The Living Stone’ for £5 each! Last chance to support a small publisher before they close 👻
Algernon Blackwood’s “The Woman’s Ghost Story” republished in the Picture Post on Christmas Eve 1949 as “The Story the Woman Told”. Wonderful illustration by a 27-year old Susan Einzig (who would go on to illustrate Tom’s Midnight Garden)
December 6, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Algernon Blackwood’s “The Woman’s Ghost Story” republished in the Picture Post on Christmas Eve 1949 as “The Story the Woman Told”. Wonderful illustration by a 27-year old Susan Einzig (who would go on to illustrate Tom’s Midnight Garden)
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Excited to share a glimpse of our next issue - a special issue on Gothic and Ageing
December 3, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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A small book filled with extraordinary ideas. I think aesthetic empathy is due a comeback. #VernonLee
November 24, 2024 at 1:05 PM
A small book filled with extraordinary ideas. I think aesthetic empathy is due a comeback. #VernonLee
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I made a starter pack for people interested in scholarship on Vernon Lee go.bsky.app/DJGbDZf I included lots of wonderful academics who have shaped my thoughts and directed my own work. Please let me know if I’ve missed anyone (and sorry if I have!).
November 24, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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My first post over here! In case you don’t know, my biography of M. R. James, ‘For the Dead Remember’, will be coming your way next year from Oxford University Press.
November 23, 2024 at 1:09 PM
My first post over here! In case you don’t know, my biography of M. R. James, ‘For the Dead Remember’, will be coming your way next year from Oxford University Press.
First paperback colonial edition of Algernon Blackwood’s ‘Pan’s Garden’ (1912).
November 23, 2024 at 11:07 AM
First paperback colonial edition of Algernon Blackwood’s ‘Pan’s Garden’ (1912).
A discovery! Lovely little clipping-bookmark…
November 16, 2024 at 3:42 PM
A discovery! Lovely little clipping-bookmark…
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Thought I’d make my first post both positive and useful-so here’s a list of all of the free-to-view titles now available on the British Newspaper Archive:
blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...
blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...
List of Free to View Pages | British Newspaper Archive
Working in partnership with the British Library, here we present a list of all newspaper pages included in our free to view newspaper collection.
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November 13, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Thought I’d make my first post both positive and useful-so here’s a list of all of the free-to-view titles now available on the British Newspaper Archive:
blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...
blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...
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Sunshine (or last of) and autumn leaves in St James Park this afternoon. The appearance seemed too exciting not to note after weeks of grey …
November 13, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Sunshine (or last of) and autumn leaves in St James Park this afternoon. The appearance seemed too exciting not to note after weeks of grey …
👋🏻 so many new people about! Follow if you want extremely intermittent posting about ghosts, weird fiction, and Algernon Blackwood 🧐 Also shelfies from time to time…
a black and white drawing of a ghost with the word booo written below it
ALT: a black and white drawing of a ghost with the word booo written below it
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November 13, 2024 at 7:24 AM
👋🏻 so many new people about! Follow if you want extremely intermittent posting about ghosts, weird fiction, and Algernon Blackwood 🧐 Also shelfies from time to time…
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Calling all Gothic Studies scholars! This is a tiny start on a list of folks working in the #Gothic to help us find each other. Halfway through compiling I thought it might be better to opt-in to make sure you all want to be here, so please comment below if you want to join!
go.bsky.app/Si2MduA
go.bsky.app/Si2MduA
November 9, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Calling all Gothic Studies scholars! This is a tiny start on a list of folks working in the #Gothic to help us find each other. Halfway through compiling I thought it might be better to opt-in to make sure you all want to be here, so please comment below if you want to join!
go.bsky.app/Si2MduA
go.bsky.app/Si2MduA
A year ago! Copies can still be purchased from the press 👻 Happy Halloween
My new book The Living Stone: Stories of Uncanny Sculpture, 1858-1943 is officially out! You can get it most places, but if you want to support the small press that published it, purchase it directly: www.handheldpress.co.uk/shop/fantasy... Halloween may be over, but fear lives forever…..
Henry Bartholomew (ed), The Living Stone - Handheld Press
The Living Stone collects classic supernatural stories of uncanny stones, rocks and carvings, doing what they ought not to do, with terrifying effect.
www.handheldpress.co.uk
October 31, 2024 at 4:53 PM
A year ago! Copies can still be purchased from the press 👻 Happy Halloween
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We are very pleased to announce a new Bloomsbury Academic series.
Spectres, Hauntings and Horrors
The series editors are Dawn Keetley, Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social and myself.
More information below.
Logo & illustrations by the fantastic Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social
Spectres, Hauntings and Horrors
The series editors are Dawn Keetley, Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social and myself.
More information below.
Logo & illustrations by the fantastic Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social
October 19, 2024 at 12:32 PM
We are very pleased to announce a new Bloomsbury Academic series.
Spectres, Hauntings and Horrors
The series editors are Dawn Keetley, Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social and myself.
More information below.
Logo & illustrations by the fantastic Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social
Spectres, Hauntings and Horrors
The series editors are Dawn Keetley, Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social and myself.
More information below.
Logo & illustrations by the fantastic Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social
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We've published the findings of the first phase of SHAPE research careers, synthesising a range of engagement with SHAPE researchers to better understand what a good, sustainable, and meaningful career does or can look like for SHAPE researchers.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
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Being a SHAPE Researcher: synthesis report
Synthesis report setting out findings and themes emerging from engagement activities undertaken to-date as part of the SHAPE Research Careers project.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
September 23, 2024 at 4:19 PM
We've published the findings of the first phase of SHAPE research careers, synthesising a range of engagement with SHAPE researchers to better understand what a good, sustainable, and meaningful career does or can look like for SHAPE researchers.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
Yesterday’s book shop find. A lovely 19th C copy. Cat stole focus, as she tends to do..
September 22, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Yesterday’s book shop find. A lovely 19th C copy. Cat stole focus, as she tends to do..
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,318,578!
September 20, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,318,578!
Went to see Alien: Romulus in an IMAX in China last night. It was so loud, making the soundless ‘vacuum’ moments very effective. Felt like I was in space. Not sure re the ethics of revivifying Ian Holm, but it was effective, story-wise. Next question: how much gore was cut for the Chinese release?
August 31, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Went to see Alien: Romulus in an IMAX in China last night. It was so loud, making the soundless ‘vacuum’ moments very effective. Felt like I was in space. Not sure re the ethics of revivifying Ian Holm, but it was effective, story-wise. Next question: how much gore was cut for the Chinese release?