Emma Butler-Way
ebutler-way.bsky.social
Emma Butler-Way
@ebutler-way.bsky.social
Dr | Lecturer - Aberystwyth University's Integrated Foundation Year Programme
Currently researching & writing on the (neo-)Victorian corset. Web Manager for the VPFA.
Clarinettist, pianist, recorder player. Occasional potter and painter.
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Ghosted is in Bloomsbury's Christmas sale and the hardback is currently £14 until 7th December. It even includes a recipe for ectoplasm you can shoot from your nose - a reliable way to get out of any complicated post-Christmas-dinner board game.

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ghosted-9...
Ghosted
A social, historical and scientific exploration of ghost-hunting, and why our fascination with the paranormal is as timeless as the ghosts we hope to find.The h…
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December 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Please give Emma's wonderful blog post about Guillermo del Torro's Frankenstein a read. Let us know your thoughts, did you enjoy the film? What did you like and dislike? Even if it deviated from the book, did it, as Emma says, still keep its 'soul'?
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I had some thoughts (and many emotions) about the new Frankenstein film, so wrote this review for the VPFA Blog @vpfa.bsky.social

Philomena Cunk memes: a major part of the review, or a side thought? You'll have to read it to find out...

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Frankenstein (2025); or, the Adaptation Shelley Deserves
A review by Emma Butler-WayEvery interview that I saw snippets of suggested to me that Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein was going to be quite something; this was a director and a cast who cl…
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November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I never expected Project Gutenberg to be the deliverer of such a thrill. Lord Byron would be *fuming*...
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is amazing. What a spectacular film, and adaptation. A work of art. Costumes: amazing. Visuals: stunning. Heart and soul of the book? Firmly in place. My emotions? All over the place. So many tears. Exquisite stuff, cannot recommend highly enough.
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ALT: a woman wearing a green scarf around her head
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November 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A pleasure & a privilege to have helped my good friend @mariellisdunning.bsky.social launch her debut novel WITSH last week in the Drwm @librarywales.bsky.social, mere hours after Aber was announced as Wales's first UNESCO City of Literature!
Missed out? ⬇️
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Witsh: In Conversation with Mari Ellis Dunning
YouTube video by Llyfrgell Genedlaethol - National Library of Wales
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November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Really looking forward to this evening's launch at @librarywales.bsky.social 📚✨

Tickets have flown & while I'm a tad nervous to be addressing The Drwm after attending so many events there, I can't wait to chat about Welsh witshes, spells, superstition, religion & misogyny.

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October 31, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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📖 A haunting novel inspired by the largely unknown history of Welsh witchcraft has been published by one of our lecturers.

🖱️ tinyurl.com/3nhm5fyc

@mariellisdunning.bsky.social
#novel #history #wales #witchcraft
October 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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👻 Writing in The Conversation, Dr Alice Vernon from the Department of English & Creative Writing discusses how our hunt for ghosts reveals more about the living than the dead.

🖱 tinyurl.com/yhrk9av7

@alicevernon10.bsky.social
#ghosts #ghosthunting #supernatural
Why we keep hunting ghosts – and what it says about us
From Victorian séances to TikTok, our hunt for ghosts reveals more about the living than the dead.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This was a super encouraging read - I am *so* excited about this adaptation!
October 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon
Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon
I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon
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October 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I'm very much looking forward to my busy Halloween night this year. First up, chatting to @mariellisdunning.bsky.social at the National Library of Wales about her haunting debut novel, WITSH, set in C16th Wales during the Welsh witch trials...
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October 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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I'm doing a book launch for Ghosted at Waterstones Aberystwyth on Halloween night at 7pm. It's going to be a spooky evening!

Info and tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/alice...
Alice Vernon launches Ghosted | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Alice Vernon launches Ghosted today.
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October 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
What a joy it was getting this page ready to go! All the thanks to @helenaesser.bsky.social for the material!

Here we'll have reflections, contemplations, speculations and more (all of a Victorian/neo-Victorian nature, of course).

Interested in contributing? Follow the link below & get in touch!
October 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
There are, I think, few things as humbling as the automatic captions to a lecture that reveal just how often you say 'Um'...
Oh, and Panopto has spoken: my name is now, apparently, Emma Holloway...
September 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Want to try something new? I'm running #Writing Women again through Aberystwyth Uni's Lifelong Learning.

✶ Online course
✶ Self-paced
✶ One to one feedback
✶ Expert guidance

Here's the link to my course, & there are heaps of others to choose from too!

www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...

#WritingSky
September 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Happy publication day to Ghosted! This book was so much fun to research and write, and I can't wait to go on a ghost hunt again.

Thank you to everyone who's ordered a copy! I hope you enjoy reading it...with all the lights on, obviously. 👻

(Note: video plays crackling static sound)
September 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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I'll be running Writing Women again in the new semester through Aberystwyth University's Lifelong Learning.

✶ Online course
✶ Self-paced
✶ One to one feedback
✶ Expert guidance

Here's the link to my course, but there are heaps of others to choose from too!

www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
August 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Ghosted is published in one month! It's all getting very exciting. Bev the Haunted Doll is positively crawling the walls.

No, really. She's crawling up the walls. Send help.

Pre-order: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ghosted-9...
August 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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‘This famine is an engineered one – a war on our bodies, our clarity, our ability to move’ Read Sondos Sabra’s Letter from Gaza in The New Statesman. www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
Letter from Gaza: “What I feel isn’t just hunger. It’s slow, internal erosion”
This famine is an engineered one – a war on our bodies, our clarity, our ability to move.
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August 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"Is there a felicity in the world superior to this?"
Celebrating meeting a Big Deadline with a holiday to reconnect with the chalk of my childhood. Have I been finding myself crying every now and then at the scenery I've not seen for 4 years? Yes. Am I relaxed, and feeling at ease? Also yes.
August 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Aberystwyth MusicFest is a truly glorious thing - we're so lucky to have it & all the wonderful variety of music it brings to Aber. Very much looking forward to this evening's offering: Jane Austen @ 250: The Beautiful Cassandra - a recital of some of Austen's letters underscored by piano music...
July 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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👻GHOSTED pre-order offer at Waterstones!👻

From now until Thursday, you can get 25% off pre-ordered copies of Ghosted with the code SUMMER25. Everyone who pre-orders it will be forever blessed by Bev the Haunted Doll.

#paranormal #ghosthunting #nonfiction

www.waterstones.com/book/ghosted...
July 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
When I say I am very excited about this...
Mari has done something really rather special with Witsh, shedding some much-needed light on the witch trials in Wales - not as well known as those in Scotland or Pendle, but no less indicative of the precarious position of women in a patriarchal society
❀ WITSH ❀

There's just 3 months to go until Witsh hits bookshelves! I'm so excited to be able to share this story with the world.

I don't want to inundate anyone but just to say, pre orders are open: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/wits...

#Witchcraft #Witchrature #Wales #WritingSky #HistoricFiction
July 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM