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Spring Sense and Sensibility Festival at Jane Austen’s House, 1-4 May. Find out what’s on, from fascinating talks and tours to lively workshops, performances and more! Day passes and virtual passes available. Plus, free drop-in events! 🔗Book tickets here: janeaustens.house/visit/whats-on…

I love that @nybooks used this picture from my book in their review - it’s the biblical prophet Hannah, looking truly terrifying

Proofs to start off the week! This one will be published in Folklore as part of their June issue. It was a very fun one to write, especially for this interdisciplinary context.

It’s #worldbookday and so here’s a book I wrote! It introduces a dozen radical 17th women who have been ignored by history books for far too long ✍️📚#voicesofthunder #NewBook

Happy #WomenHistoryMonth! Our #WHM2026 reading list celebrates the voices and stories that have shaped our world and highlights women whose work continues to inspire and challenge us manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/03/0… Buy any book in the reading list with *30% discount* until 31st March!

Sneak preview! Next months Tales of the Weird is ‘The New Flesh: Tales of Shapeshifters & Strange Transformations’ Edited by the delightful Mark Morris & featuring a stunning list of authors (have a look!) Publishing March 19th! #talesoftheweird

Something nasty on the bookshelf: my review of Tanya Kirk’s collection of stories about books and libraries for @BL_Publishing, ‘The Haunted Library’ drfrancisyoung.com/2026/03/04/s... 📚👻

Welsh author & mystic Arthur Machen was born in Caerleon #OTD in 1863. A pioneer of ‘weird fiction’, his strange wanderings –from Arcadian Wales to spectral London– gave rise to uncanny tales of occult horror & hidden realms, influencing everyone from HP Lovecraft to Stephen King

For any of you who listen podcasts, I recently had the opportunity to chat to the lovely @DrRKnightley and @TheWritersGymRK about academic writing as creative practice. #horror #gothic youtube.com/watch?v=AP5Wbs…

Argues that this negative lesson is Black Mirror's most successful approach. It examines how Black Mirror demonstrates the Janus-like structure of fantasy, as well as how it teaches, unteaches, and reteaches us about desire in a technological world.

In our efforts to make BAVS more accessible, we’re rebranding the Victorianist as a blog for everyone, expanding its audience while continuing to share news, CFPs, and updates for Victorianists. PGR and ECR work will continue to be featured and promoted via our Researcher Blog.

Publishing in April! The poetry of suicide, Lessons in grief from the lives and deaths of #poets. By J. T. Welsch A profound exploration of the connection between #poetry and #suicide, exploring the work of #Dante #SylviaPlath #VladimirMayakovsky manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191991/

"This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the long evolution of a mythical structure. Legends and folklore allow us to explore the brutal bestiality of a figure loaded with sexuality, eroticism, and desire. From ancient times to the present day, the tragic narrative universe of a strange and dangerous wild world is unfolded, with elements of tenderness, that has contributed to defining the profile of civilization as its opposite. The myth was contaminated with religious fanaticism when werewolves were persecuted and burned during the times of the witch hunts".

#MythologyMonday Dracula’s teeth are so famous that the term is even used to describe a form of sweet. Yet the vampires of old European folklore were not recognised by their teeth. This feature arrived with fiction enhanced by visual representation. cambridge.org/core/books/abs…

After the successful first launch of their book at the University of Aberdeen earlier this month, join editors Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio at one of their events to celebrate 'Methods for ecocritical art history'. Ecocriticism is one of the most important and exciting developments in current art history. This brand new book is the first of its kind to provide a book a survey of it's methods, showing what is they can offer art historians. Across twenty three essays, international scholars tackle a range of approaches including ecofeminism, planetary ecologies, material ecocriticism, ecopolitics, and indigenous ecopoetics. Written in clear, jargon-free language, these essays are framed by a series of editorial introductions that provide orientation within a disciplinary territory that is still in a state of flux. Final tickets available for UK events. Find out more and book: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/

Publishing today! The Black Fox: A Novel of the Eighteen-Seventies Do you dare to invoke the curse? Discover this brooding masterpiece oozing with inexorable dread. For those readers seeking out the unsettling… #talesoftheweird shop.bl.uk/products/the-b…

Emmi-Riikka, 'Fairy Foxes'

Next essay up in our new issue of HORROR STUDIES (16.2) is by Duncan Hubber on THE MARBLE HORNETS web series: "an allegory for online-perpetuated trauma" @IntellectBooks #horror #foundfootage #SlenderMan #marblehornets doi.org/10.1386/host_0…

GOTHIC YULETIDE Here is Krampus Kat for #Caturday to remind you that we are close to the 1st December and #GothicYuletide. Really looking forward to posting some seasonal gothic content this year! Every tree needs a Krampus Kat (beautifully made by @KayleighRad)

Let's talk about why people are excited for #TheInvisibleDragon or #เคียงมังกร Interfans have been wondering why GMMTV even decide to make such a show and in particular why Thai fans are cheering very hard for this show. The reason lines in cultural differences a thread