🎃🦇 TalesofTerror 🧛‍♀️👻

#FiresideTalesofTerror is go! The tech tested us but we got there and welcome delegates in person and online for a fantastic two days.

Absolutely honoured to receive a dedicated copy of this new edition of #TalesoftheWeird series @BL_Publishing from my fabulous PhD sister @pamplemoussepam ❤️ VERY proud ❤️🥹

@pietersender and I will be representing the @BL_Publishing #TalesoftheWeird family @LincBookFest On Sat 14th Oct, talking about our respective collections on R. Murray Gilchrist and #MinorHauntings 👻 Do come along or pass on to interested parties! lincolnartscentre.co.uk/event/british-…

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May everyone's 2023 be full of Gothic Goodness 🖤

I enjoyed the @TerrorTalesof conference too much to do any live tweeting, but one of the signs of a brilliant conference is a successful book haul 📚

@authorethan 😮😮😮

It became very clear to us at #FiresideTalesofTerror that the Valancourt volumes of Victorian Christmas ghost stories (edited by one of our speakers Christopher Philippo!) were indispensable to many of our scholars. And a lovelyChristmas gift! valancourtbooks.com/the-valancourt…

One for the @TerrorTalesof crew

Our very own Jólakötturinn #FiresideTalesofTerror

Could this be an early sighting of the Yule Cat in our garden? @TerrorTalesof #Caturday

Scary Gothmas @TerrorTalesof #FiresideTalesofTerror

@Cat_Liberace @DeathandDolls @Jendeavour Sorry we didn't get to chat more! The perils of being an organiser! But thank you so much for coming and sharing your work and so glad you had a great time :)

Massive thanks to @TerrorTalesof Fireside Tales of Terror conference organisers @Jendeavour and @DeathandDolls for running such a great conference and inviting me to be one of the keynotes alongside @monicagermana. Lots of fascinating papers and enthusiastic young scholars!

What a wonderful Goth Christmas this had been! Listening to - what’s the collective noun for Gothicists? - talk on mummies, ghosts, vengeful trees, spooky eels, ice queen fashion, yule cats and much more! Thank you @DeathandDolls and @Jendeavour for making this happen! ❄️💀👻🥶

Massive thank you & congratulations to @Jendeavour & @DeathandDolls & all of the wonderful people involved with @TerrorTalesof for such a fantastic conference! And shout out to the fab keynotes @monicagermana & @drdjohnston as well as all of the speakers for their amazing talks!

Annnnnnnd that's a wrap on #FiresideTalesofTerror Thank you to all in-person & online speakers, audience members, Chairs, our 3 excellent helpers, our amazing keynotes @drdjohnston and @monicagermana and my partner in crime, @DeathandDolls A Gothic Yuletide to one and all!

Truly proud to have been a part of this panel! Fantastic papers from @pietersender and @DrGothicBodies, and some really interesting questions from the in-person audience as well. Simpsons, Robin Hood, John Carpenter, Fromsoft - what more can you ask for?

Creatures like Sedna punish communities not behaving properly and looking after their environment #FiresideTalesofTerror

Subversive function of sea-monsters more apparent outside of Europe- such as the Innuit creature the Tuutalik #FiresideTalesofTerror

Our second Keynote and final speaker (!) for the conference is @monicagermana taking us to terrifying winter wonderlands and promising we will be terrified by arctic mermaids and sea creatures by the end #FiresideTalesofTerror