Very excited to be a part of this amazing issue with such fantastic scholars! I discuss the similarities of Jackson and Stephen King’s folkloric characters, the Daemon Lover and the Man in Black, and how they contribute to a neo-folklore for New England 👻

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📣 We are excited to announce the release of Shirley Jackson Studies Volume 2, Issue 2: Jackson & Folklore! 📣 This issue features illuminating articles by @amycoles.bsky.social, Margherita Orsi, @soniaoverall.bsky.social, and Candice Bailey. Read it here: shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=381

CFP Alert: “Mothers, Mothering, Horror and Terror in Television, Film, and Literature” The editors are looking for 2 or 3 contributions that address black, Chicanx/Latinx and/or migrant/migrating/borderland mother/hoods within the volumes’s theme of horror and/or terror. #SSAG #CFP

Very excited to receive my contributor copy of Entering the Multiverse this morning (also the first physical copy of my published work I’ve ever held!!) - thanks to @pbooth81.bsky.social for all his hard work and support as editor!

Exciting mail today - this makes it official! 🎉

Pssssst! 🦇💀👻😈🧟‍♀️🧛‍♂️🎃 The @gothicstudies.bsky.social / International Gothic Association Early-Career Essay Prize 2024-25 is open to submissions! Deadline is 1st March 2025 More details at 👇👇👇 www.globalgoth.org/blog/the-int...

The International Gothic Association Early-Career Essay Prize 2024-25 - Gothic Association

The essay competition is open to postgraduate students or postdoctoral scholars who are currently in good standing as IGA members. A postgraduate may be a current or recent Masters’ student (within tw...

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An exciting start to the week! I just signed and returned my contract to Lexington Press for my first book "The Eight Archetypes of the Double in Culture and Literature"! Now I just have to write it...

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There’s still time to get tickets for the ‘Collins and Dickens’ conference held at the University of Buckingham! We have an amazing range of speakers, an exhibition and a staged reading of ‘No Thoroughfare’ - come along and join us (student prices available too!) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collins-an...

Collins and Dickens

A two-day literary conference exploring the relationship of Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens to celebrate the bicentenary of Collins.

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I’ve officially joined Bluesky, so it’s a good time to introduce myself. I’m currently researching into the female double across literature from nineteenth century to modern day and how they subvert the common archetypes