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Eli Dolliver
@elidolliver.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Horror Cinema and Folklore at St John's College Cambridge 🎥🐉 🎃

And after that I WILL find a way to academicise both Below Deck and all the animated Barbie movies

(She/her)
HOW YOU KNOW THE WIKI IS GONNA BANG
September 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice
June 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I'm so excited to be presenting at Darkness in the Fields on analogue horror and folklore!
One week left to book, and so much incredible writing talent taking part in DARKNESS IN THE FIELDS: MIDSUMMER 3! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/darkness-i...
June 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Just a week until kick-off - come join us for a deep dive into the world of folk horror over five days of online events with DARKNESS IN THE FIELDS: MIDSUMMER 3! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/darkness-i...
June 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I loved this collection!!
If you like your Wicker Men burning and your Apostles Welsh, "Folk Horror on Film: Return of the British Repressed" may be for you. Newly out in paperback from @manchesterup.bsky.social ‬and eds. Kevin J. Donnelly and Louis Bayman.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191205/
June 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reminder that this is tonight!

I will be talking about Irish horror with an amazing panel of experts including director Aislinn Clarke!

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Events
Weekday Night Bites is our monthly series of scholarly events on screen horror - Part of our role as a Special Interest Group is to facilitate connections and discussions between members, and to...
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May 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Exciting online event coming up! I will be talking about Fréwaka and all things Irish horror at the end of May with a panel of experts including director Aislinn Clarke and composer Die Hexen! Spread the word!
May 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
If I could log analogue horrors on letterboxd I would be doing numbersssss
April 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Hey bluesky! I’m giving a free online talk on analogue horror this Saturday, once at 10am and again at 7pm, if you or anyone you know is interested in YouTube horror and/or folklore! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/romancing-...
April 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Writing my thesis forcing my computer to learn the word “cottagecore”
April 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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My first encounter with a physical copy of the Authenticity and Adaptation book, which features my chapter on Lovecraft adaptations! If you're at #BAFTSS2025 then you can find a copy to peruse at the Palgrave stand.
March 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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1/7 It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of Linda Williams, a pioneering scholar whose fearless work transformed film and media studies. Over her remarkable career, Williams challenged scholars to take seriously popular and often marginalized genres,
March 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I had the best time ever at Fairy Tale Trouble and the Art of Fluidity: Gender, Genre, Media. And I can officially confirm that fairy tale people are just as nice as horror studies people. I feel very lucky to be part of both disciplines.

I talked about how slashers are like fairytales! 🧚‍♀️🦄🔪🩸🧜‍♀️✨🐉
March 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Horror fans! This week our free panel 'What about the men? Masculininty in Horror Film' takes place on Wednesday 26th Feb, 7pm, online. Come and join us for some good chat.
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February 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Neither of the wolves inside me want to do emails
February 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
How messed up would it be to show my Horror Cinema and The Body seminar students the custard scene from Peter Jackson's Braindead?
February 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Do you guys think the fertility goddess would be mad at me for taking the pill back to back?
February 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
My first ever academic publication is out, and I’m sharing space in the journal issue with non other than Barbara Creed! What an honour.

Check it out here to find out if The Mother from Barbarian is a girl boss:
www.cine-excess.co.uk/the-anti-mot...
January 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Doing a bit of reading for a seminar series I'm designing on the body and horror, and look at Rob Bottin when he was 22 and did the special effects for The Thing. He's like the manliest 22 year old ever
January 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
You’re never eating lunch alone when you have the Anglo-Saxon paganism Wikipedia page open
January 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Crisps should be a salad bar option at the deli
January 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
So allergic to going back to writing that today I cut my hair, cleaned all the floors, and fixed the washing machine
December 28, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Me to the man on the train home for Christmas who offered me a slice of cheese “without chemistry” and “from the mountains” and then sliced it using the handle of a nail clippers
a man in a suit and tie is talking to a woman in a room .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to a woman in a room .
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December 26, 2024 at 7:23 PM