Check out Walk Midlands latest newsletter for walks on the English midlands boundaries and borderlands; plus get to know The Derwent Press and learn about the lost Lapal Canal Tunnel 👇

Just the thing for @whitbynats.bsky.social and @whitbymuseum.bsky.social and has a section on Stoker, the seaside and lighthouses. Looking forward to reading it over the weekend holidays.

I'm delighted to announce that I'll be co-editing a special issue of Gothic Studies: Arctic Gothic with Monica Germanà and Sara Wasson.
Check out the CFP here: www.globalgoth.org/blog/arctic-...

It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December!

doi.org/10.1017/9781...

A Q. for detective fiction scholars! Do people have an opinion on whether or not discussions should refrain from revealing twists/whodunnit, if they can?

I am writing about a Christie book and discussing the character who turns out to be the murderer (a fact irrelevant to my discussion!).

Thanks!

Sound but unnerving advice from the evil looking toy in our eldest’s latest party bag.

Exciting update! ‘Summoned to the Séance’ is out next Thursday 12th December! 👻 Find it at @britishlibrary.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social @whsmithofficial.bsky.social and many more: shop.bl.uk/products/sum...

2 days until our online seminar with Dr Isabelle Gapp: join us on Zoom at 3pm (UK) this Thursday – details below!

Hi everybody: I’m excited to be able to share a new special issue from the Midland History journal on the ‘Haunted Midlands’ – all articles open access! Thanks to all involved!
Please share with anyone who might enjoy spooky Midlands!

www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/4...

Please share, as Haunted Shores hasn’t quite made it to the new place yet!

The next Haunted Shores online seminar with Dr Isabelle Gapp — on reindeer, Sámi herders, & shipboard transportation in Canada — on Thursday 5 December, 3pm (UK).

Info/registration here!

haunted-shores.com/2024/11/26/h...

Project Servator — seemingly run by the animorphs

When you’re trying to feed the angry robo-dog from A Close Shave.

The painting of this Barbara Steele-a-like at the top of the stairs at this b&b is definitely haunted, right…

Turns out you can produce a frantic panic in the eyes of your students if you start reciting Carly Rae Jepsen lyrics in an effort to analyse “Call me Ishmael…”

“We thought you might start singing.”

VERY exciting news! I’m joining the @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesOfTheWeird series this December with ‘Summoned to the Séance: Spirit Tales from Beyond the Veil’!👻
Join hands around the séance table for 14 classics & lost gems of fiction inspired by the spiritualism movement🕯️

I always suspected this of sport...

A crisp misty morning as backdrop for a writing day about hazy and lazy gothic beaches: looking forward to getting all these stories talking to each other today.

While I'm bumping into new people here, an intro 🧵! I work across gothic studies and blue humanities. My first book, Gothic Utterance (UWP), thought about the voices of the dead and their ethical imperatives in 19C US writing.
www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...

Hello everybody! Having spent much of this week traipsing across the local fields to make the most of the November sunshine... I have finally traipsed into these other sunlit uploads! Will slowly get round to finding everybody again!