Julia O’Connell

It's release week for AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION and Julia at The Gothic Library has this wonderful review, sharing aspects of this very personal book and its unique structure: thegothiclibrary.com/review-of-amer…

IT IS TIME! RUN FROM THE HAUNTED MANOR TO YOUR NEAREST BOOKSTORE! AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION IS HERE! Available via @KensingtonBooks wherever books are sold, in hardcover, digital & audiobook with Andrea and I reading our chapters!

Tis my birthday week!🖤 If you kindly bought/ordered magnificent things for yourself, it would be an enormously helpful present! Gothy / Victorianesque accessories: torchandarrow.etsy.com Pre-order our next haunted history book: AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC tinyurl.com/amgothbn

I'm donating 1 Annotated ARC of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, our anticipated HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN follow-up, full of doodles & 1-of-a-kind handwritten notes in margins! Proceeds help diverse literary agents! 32auctions.com/organizations/…

Happy #WorldGothDay from your friendly neighborhood Goth & Gothic Novelist! Peruse Gothic, Neo-Victorian & Steampunk wares at Torch & Arrow! Pre-order AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION! (Links below) Your support is dearly appreciated!

I will not be posting here regularly anymore. Please follow me on the other site at JuliaJoyce (dot) bsky (dot) social.

I’m hiring a summer intern! Details in the link below:

This week has been so hectic, I realized I never shared my blog post from Monday! Check out my review of MURDER BY MEMORY, a new cozy sci-fi from romance author Olivia Waite:

@madeline_cct La Femme Chauve-Souris by Albert Joseph Pénot

Friends, I’m brainstorming for something exciting, and would appreciate your help! So, please send me your favourite 19th-century paintings (or illustrations) depicting monsters or all things monstrous, vampiric, grotesque, etc. 🖤🤭

Also FYI, I’m going to stop posting here soon. Give me a follow on the Other Place at JuliaJoyce[dot]bsky[dot]social.

New blog post! Check out my review of THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT by @nvtran: #bookreview #YAhorror

New blog post! Check out my review of BENEATH THE POET’S HOUSE by @real_christaqua: #BookReview

New blog post! Check out my review of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by @tithenai: #BookReview #TheRiverHasRoots

New blog post! Check out my review of DARK ARCHIVES by @LibraryatNight;

Abraham Van Helsing may be the most famous of the early occult detectives, but there were many others who appeared in Victorian and Edwardian literature. Today I look back at some of the early supernatural sleuths who helped to define a genre that is still going strong today…

@madeline_cct Happy birthday! Can’t think of a better way to spend it than with vampires. 🍷🧛‍♂️

In the past few years my birthday has so often fallen on teaching days but at least today it’s Polidori’s ‘The Vampyre’ so that does feel like a treat… and then I’ll probably have a… drink 🍷😅

New blog post! Check out my review of the lyrically haunting THE DJINN WAITS A HUNDRED YEARS by @ShubnumKhan

I can never resist a good Dracula talk and “Dracula as Survival Cannibal: Shipwrecks, Starvation, and Drinking Blood at Sea” sounds fascinating!

Wondering what my thoughts are on the new Nosferatu? I’ve written a whole blog post about it!

New blog post! Check out my list of books releasing in 2025 that I’m excited for: