Jimmy Packham
jfpackham.bsky.social
Jimmy Packham
@jfpackham.bsky.social
Researching and writing about nineteenth-century literature and the gothic: mostly coastly, the seabed and deep ocean, blue hums, and gothic voices. Co-runs the Haunted Shores network. Senior Lecturer at University of Birmingham.
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!
January 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Sound but unnerving advice from the evil looking toy in our eldest’s latest party bag.
December 8, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Reposted by Jimmy Packham
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...
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🕯️
December 6, 2024 at 2:14 PM
2 days until our online seminar with Dr Isabelle Gapp: join us on Zoom at 3pm (UK) this Thursday – details below!
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...
Haunted Shores online seminar: Dr Isabelle Gapp, 5 December 2024
Haunted Shores online seminar series 3pm (UK time) 5 December 2024 Online (Zoom): link to be circulated ahead of seminar to registered attendees. We are delighted to invite you to the Haunted Shore…
haunted-shores.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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...
Midland History
Haunted Midlands. Volume 49, Issue 3 of Midland History
www.tandfonline.com
December 3, 2024 at 10:26 AM
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...
Haunted Shores online seminar: Dr Isabelle Gapp, 5 December 2024
Haunted Shores online seminar series 3pm (UK time) 5 December 2024 Online (Zoom): link to be circulated ahead of seminar to registered attendees. We are delighted to invite you to the Haunted Shore…
haunted-shores.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Project Servator — seemingly run by the animorphs
November 29, 2024 at 7:15 PM
When you’re trying to feed the angry robo-dog from A Close Shave.
November 24, 2024 at 7:44 PM
The painting of this Barbara Steele-a-like at the top of the stairs at this b&b is definitely haunted, right…
November 21, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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.”
November 21, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Reposted by Jimmy Packham
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🕯️
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 PM
I always suspected this of sport...
November 15, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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.
November 15, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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-...
Gothic Utterance | UWP
Gothic Utterance explores the vital role played by haunted and haunting voices in American Gothic literature produced between the Revolutionary War and the close of the nineteenth century, discussing ...
www.uwp.co.uk
November 15, 2024 at 6:46 AM
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!
November 14, 2024 at 10:08 PM