Henry Bartholomew
@henrybartholomew.bsky.social
Teacher, scholar, editor; PhD, FHEA; Academic Skills Lecturer at GBS. Interested in the Gothic, the weird, ghost stories, objects, Speculative Realism, Algernon Blackwood 🌲 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Henry-Bartholomew
The cover of my upcoming special issue of @gothicstudies.bsky.social - 'Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic' - is here! Eight essays on Blackwood's fiction, delving into questions of genre, war, empathy, occultism, and much more. Full issue out soon! @edinburghup.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The cover of my upcoming special issue of @gothicstudies.bsky.social - 'Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic' - is here! Eight essays on Blackwood's fiction, delving into questions of genre, war, empathy, occultism, and much more. Full issue out soon! @edinburghup.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social
Something cosmic this way comes... the special issue of Gothic Studies I have been working on - Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic - is now in production ready for its November publication. Thrilled with the depth and breadth of insight and expertise from the contributors. More updates soon!
October 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Something cosmic this way comes... the special issue of Gothic Studies I have been working on - Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic - is now in production ready for its November publication. Thrilled with the depth and breadth of insight and expertise from the contributors. More updates soon!
The wondrous Algernon Blackwood was born on this day in 1869! Excited to say that I am currently editing a special issue of Gothic Studies on ‘Blackwood and the Gothic’ due Nov. Features a truly fantastic line-up of contributors. I can’t wait for people to read it.
March 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The wondrous Algernon Blackwood was born on this day in 1869! Excited to say that I am currently editing a special issue of Gothic Studies on ‘Blackwood and the Gothic’ due Nov. Features a truly fantastic line-up of contributors. I can’t wait for people to read it.
Algernon Blackwood’s “The Woman’s Ghost Story” republished in the Picture Post on Christmas Eve 1949 as “The Story the Woman Told”. Wonderful illustration by a 27-year old Susan Einzig (who would go on to illustrate Tom’s Midnight Garden)
December 6, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Algernon Blackwood’s “The Woman’s Ghost Story” republished in the Picture Post on Christmas Eve 1949 as “The Story the Woman Told”. Wonderful illustration by a 27-year old Susan Einzig (who would go on to illustrate Tom’s Midnight Garden)
A small book filled with extraordinary ideas. I think aesthetic empathy is due a comeback. #VernonLee
November 24, 2024 at 1:05 PM
A small book filled with extraordinary ideas. I think aesthetic empathy is due a comeback. #VernonLee
First paperback colonial edition of Algernon Blackwood’s ‘Pan’s Garden’ (1912).
November 23, 2024 at 11:07 AM
First paperback colonial edition of Algernon Blackwood’s ‘Pan’s Garden’ (1912).
A discovery! Lovely little clipping-bookmark…
November 16, 2024 at 3:42 PM
A discovery! Lovely little clipping-bookmark…
Yesterday’s book shop find. A lovely 19th C copy. Cat stole focus, as she tends to do..
September 22, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Yesterday’s book shop find. A lovely 19th C copy. Cat stole focus, as she tends to do..
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,318,578!
September 20, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,318,578!
“Archeology expands from sorting out the time of antiquity to openly working with the sorting that is itself the antiquity of time” - Witmore. What are people’s thoughts on semantic inversions as rhetorical technique? I often do it in my own writing (perhaps too much) - something compelling about it
October 5, 2023 at 7:09 AM
“Archeology expands from sorting out the time of antiquity to openly working with the sorting that is itself the antiquity of time” - Witmore. What are people’s thoughts on semantic inversions as rhetorical technique? I often do it in my own writing (perhaps too much) - something compelling about it
First book I’ve read purely for pleasure in a long while. Enjoyed it a lot - the prose is astonishing and doesn’t dip in quality as it progresses. I’m not sure about the ending, but I loved the whole conceit of the under/over story. Plus I learned a whole load of facts about trees.
October 3, 2023 at 10:32 AM
First book I’ve read purely for pleasure in a long while. Enjoyed it a lot - the prose is astonishing and doesn’t dip in quality as it progresses. I’m not sure about the ending, but I loved the whole conceit of the under/over story. Plus I learned a whole load of facts about trees.