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**Gothic Nature VI: Call for Papers** We are delighted to share with you the CFP for Gothic Nature, Issue VI: gothicnaturejournal.com/wp-content/upl… The deadline for abstracts/pitches is July 25th 2026. We look forward to hearing from you!  🍃🍃🍃

Save your pennies - this is out soon and trust me, you do not want to miss this story!!

RABBIT UNDERTAKERS The Adventures of Pinocchio is darker than you might think. When Pinocchio refuses to take his medicine the Blue Fairy summons a group of black #rabbits as undertakers to carry him off! 🎨Charles Copeland illustrations to the 1904 edition #FolkloreSunday

This book shows that Arab women writers innovate & utilise Gothic forms to “live with the ghosts” of foremothers. Examining contemporary Arab women’s writing from the 1970s to the present through the lens of feminist theory, it details aesthetic patterns. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

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Just received a copy of Paul Robichaud’s wonderful ‘Stories of the Stones’ - which I describe as ‘a magical yet historically grounded book’ 🪨✨ reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/stories-o…

You may have heard of Cernunnos the Horned God, but a Horned Goddess? Rozhanitza is associated with reindeer, the hunt, and the Winter Solstice. She is depicted as a Horned Goddess of reindeer antlers. 📷 Maria Franz of Heilung

#FolkloreSunday The "serpari" festival, on 1 May, honours San Domenico di Sora for removing snakes from farmers' fields in the 11th Century . It is also said to originate from the worship of Angitia, a Roman goddess of snakes worshipped in central Italy. bbc.com/news/world-eur…

#ShakespeareSunday "O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife..." (Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 4). Art by Arthur Rackham

LYCANTHIA - Werewolf novel published in 1935. Lycanthia, is the orphan child of a Polish nobleman and an English mother, brought up in an atmosphere of secret satanic rites & strange practices of vampirism. She begins a reign of terror in the English countryside, accompanied by a huge wolf. First edition: Herbert Jenkins, London 1935.

Horror and Disability: Representations of Disability in Twenty-First-Century Film and Television, by Darren Gray, will be out this September. It will be volume #28 in the Horror Studies book series at @UniWalesPress. @UWPcommission #horror #horrorstudies uwp.co.uk/book/horror-an…

Very excited to tuck into these excellent new collections in the International Gothic @ManchesterUP series! #gothic #gothicstudies

Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away from representations of nonhuman animals in literature and towards liminal figures like androids, aliens and ghosts, this book examines the boundaries of humanness.

Dr Hannah Singleton shares an extraordinary analysis of the cultural afterlives of the Pendle Witches in our recent themed special issue with @NFSEngland Find this and more scholarly explorations into folklore in Issue 13, ‘Contemporary Legend’.

Congratulations to Alissa Burger on the publication of Remaking the Monster! bloomsbury.com/uk/remaking-th… #gothic #frankenstein @BloomsburyAcad

“The word of the Law is THELEMA. Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” — Liber AL vel Legis, 1:40

'Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century,' edited by @baconetti This collection follows the vampire across the US to consider what cultural and historical environments have gone towards creating the contemporary undead. routledge.com/Vampires-and-t…

🦇 งานหนังสือเหลืออีกแค่ 2 วัน... 'ผู้เป็นแวมไพร์' ปกซีเปียเองก็เช่นกัน เหลือ 2 เล่มสุดท้าย! 🦇 'ผู้เป็นแวมไพร์' ปกซีเปียและเขียนโดย 'ลอร์ดไบรอน' เหลือ 2 เล่มสุดท้ายในสต็อคสำนักพิมพ์ ฉบับพิมพ์ต่อ ๆ ไปจะไม่เป็นดีไซน์นี้แล้วนะ

'Shakespearean Gothic' This book explores the paradox that the Gothic (today's werewolves, vampires, and horror movies) owe their origins (and their legitimacy) to eighteenth-century interpretations of Shakespeare. uwp.co.uk/book/shakespea…