Matthew Gibson
matthewgibsonmacau.bsky.social
Matthew Gibson
@matthewgibsonmacau.bsky.social
Scholar of W B Yeats, Bram Stoker and others. Works at University of Macau. Author of several books, including novel, Mr Stoker and the Vampires of the Lyceum.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
My latest article for Irish Studies Review, on Bram Stoker and Edward Dowden. Sorry, no vampires, but a fair few Scottish and Spanish ghosts!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2A9HH...
“You are not to be cut off from Ireland:” Bram Stoker’s continuing relations with Edward Dowden
One of the most important formative influences on Bram Stoker was Edward Dowden, who as a young don had befriended and impressed the barely younger man, introducing him to the work of Walt Whitman....
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July 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
My latest article on Bulgarian Book History, for Publishing Research Quarterly. rdcu.be/egj0p
Bulgarian Books: The Contrary Cases of Stanislavov, Zhefarovic and Paisiy Hilendarski
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April 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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February 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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‘Much of what was great about Chris Jefferies was used to attack him and destroy his reputation when the media, unimpeded by the police and maybe even aided by them, decided he must be Joanna Yeates’s murderer.’

@padrig.bsky.social on the hounding of his former teacher
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Patrick McGuinness · Diary: Defending Mr Jefferies
Much of what was great about Chris Jefferies was used to attack him and destroy his reputation when the media, unimpeded...
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February 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Gwen John, Girl with a Blue Scarf, c. 1915-20

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135394
February 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Today on #jaffareadstoo I am delighted to share my review of Lake of Widows by Liza Perrat.

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📖 Book Review ~ Lake of Widows by Liza Perrat
October 2024 Women of the Lake #2 My thanks to the author for my copy of this book Three women. One shared struggle. Can they survive?  19...
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January 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Raining and chilly outside, so it's time to relax with a new book! 📚 'Mrs Hudson and the Capricorn Incident' by @martindaviesauthor @AllisonandBusby 💙📚 📚👀 #booksky
January 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Wooot! At essay number 58 for the Handbook of the Vampire “La Morte Amoureuse” by Matthew Gibson 😃

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La Morte Amoureuse
This chapter explores the antecedents, critical episteme, contemporary politics, and other issues relating to Théophile Gautier’s vampire tale of 1836. Beginning with a description of the p...
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October 3, 2023 at 3:39 PM
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"To those in the US who argue war in Ukraine is a Europe-only problem, it doesn’t feel like it in Kyiv." @francish.bsky.social
Ukrainians Warn Putin Will Scupper Trump’s Peace
Those who think Donald Trump’s election signals the end for Ukraine should listen to its people — they’re both more hopeful and more cynical.
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January 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Backlash against another Russian puppet

Protesters in Slovakia push back against Fico 💪🏼
January 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM