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Dr Victoria C. Roskams
@vroskams.bsky.social
writer/musician working on music & literature, 19th century mostly. Also Oscar Wilde, inevitably.

https://oxford.academia.edu/VictoriaRoskams

https://linktr.ee/vicroskams
Lamp Lit Issue 1.2 is out, featuring a short story I wrote called 'Pierrot disparu'! lamplit.net/q-issue-numb...
November 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Reposted by Dr Victoria C. Roskams
🛋️ Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall 2025 is Live at LampLit.net! 🛋️

Thank you to Lamp Lit 1.2 Contributors: ⬇️

#poetry #shortstories #art #essay #litmags #lamplitmag
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Reposted by Dr Victoria C. Roskams
🛋️Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall '25 Cover and Contributor Reveal!

Cover art by Mirjana M. @ cyanide_cherries on insta

Our sophomore issue will be released to Lamplit.net on Thursday, November 13th! 🛋️

#coverreaveal #poetry #shortstories #art #essay #litmags #lamplitmag

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November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
my story 'Friends of Dorothy' has just been published in The Literary Hatchet magazine! It's about Oscar Wilde's niece Dolly, wit, Paris, fur coats, etc etc, you get the gist: lizzieandrewborden.com/literaryhatc...
Literary Hatchet #40 DOUBLE ISSUE – Literary Hatchet
FREE download until next issue is published. DOUBLE Issue #40, published October 2025. Contributing writers and artists include: jaya abraham, olaore raheemat adebola, colleen anderson, jake bienven...
lizzieandrewborden.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Reposted by Dr Victoria C. Roskams
you can read my story 'The Mylar Chamber' in volume 8 of Tales of the Unreal, out now! It is based on a true story: poet Ira Cohen's inadvertent discovery of the photographic technique he used to create his Mylar images. unrealpress.substack.com/api/v1/file/8db65c28-735d-4244-8748-cf02302a50a1.pdf
unrealpress.substack.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
you can read my story 'The Mylar Chamber' in volume 8 of Tales of the Unreal, out now! It is based on a true story: poet Ira Cohen's inadvertent discovery of the photographic technique he used to create his Mylar images. unrealpress.substack.com/api/v1/file/8db65c28-735d-4244-8748-cf02302a50a1.pdf
unrealpress.substack.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
as an eerily well-timed sequel to my recent talk on The Doors, my story 'Morrison Motel' has just been published - it's about untoward goings-on at the Alta Cienega motel, where Jim Morrison lived while recording multiple Doors albums: exquisitedeathezine.com/morrison-hotel
exquisitedeathezine.com
August 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
my story 'The Baptism of the Petit Comte' has just been published in The Literary Fantasy Magazine - archive.thearcanist.net/posts/2507ba...
Baptism of the Petit Comte
Baptism of the Petit Comte # Victoria C. Roskams # First Published in The Literary Fantasy Magazine: Summer 2025 It was a strange fancy of the Count’s to suddenly order that his son be baptised, but t...
archive.thearcanist.net
July 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
of limited interest to many but me, but a) why is there a discogs entry for Stenbock's 'True Story of a Vampire' and b) why does it depict Tadzio from Death In Venice running away from the vampire?
July 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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July 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
great news! my talk on 'The Gothic and The Doors' is on youtube, for all and sundry to enjoy my dulcet tones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVir...
The Gothic and The Doors with Victoria Roskams
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
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July 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Reposted by Dr Victoria C. Roskams
If you missed this week's talk on The Gothic and The Doors, you can find it here!

youtu.be/uVirA1joteA
The Gothic and The Doors with Victoria Roskams
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
youtu.be
July 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
update: the talk now has an accompanying playlist (i may or may not have got carried away adding goth songs not actually referenced in the talk) open.spotify.com/playlist/0Y7...
July 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
tomorrow! 10am and 7pm on zoom (and subsequently on youtube in perpetuity):
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-gothic...
The Gothic and the Doors with Victoria Roskams
An Exploration of The Doors role in the evolution of the Gothic
www.eventbrite.co.uk
July 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
out today: 'Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences: Popular Music Autobiographies', ed. Tom Attah, @profkirsty.bsky.social, & Christian Lloyd. featuring my chapter on Lady Gaga as pop's greatest Wildean since Bowie - 'Lady Gaga's Wildean Self-Representations'! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rereading...
Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences
Using a radical and inclusive definition of the genre, this collection explores musicians' autobiographies as articulated in print, on stage, and through variou…
www.bloomsbury.com
July 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
much like the adage about waiting for a bus, two of my stories have come along at once this week-

'Corvo's John', now available to read on House of Long Shadows, is based on the mysterious, beguiling, inscrutable literary enigma that was Baron Corvo:

houseoflongshadows.substack.com/p/hls-no-19-...
HLS No. 19: Corvo's John
A tomb-walk with Victoria C. Roskams
houseoflongshadows.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
my story 'Swan Song' is out now on @fictionontheweb! it is a fictionalised retelling of expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka's commissioning of a life-sized doll of his former lover, Alma Mahler.

you can read it here: www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/2025/05/swan...
Swan Song by Victoria C. Roskams
Short stories hand-picked from authors around the world. Submissions accepted. Humour, crime, sci-fi, fantasy, horror and everyday life.
www.fictionontheweb.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM