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The Ghoul Guides

@ghoulguides.bsky.social

A multimedia project exploring all things spooky, ghoulish and Gothic from academic researchers @laurenjnixon.bsky.social and @mazgoing.bsky.social. Podcast: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ghoulguides | Website: theghoulguides.wordpress.com

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The Ghoul Guides@ghoulguides.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Real ghouls match their bookmarks to their books. Did you check out our spooky season reading recommendations? We had weird and witchy reads (including CJ Cooke’s The Ghost Woods, pictured) as well as some culty and corrupt options. Listen: shorturl.at/f5yA9 (other podcast platforms available!)

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The Ghoul Guides@ghoulguides.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I promise we wrote and recorded this before we had any idea about the South Park Labubu episode but if you watched that and wanted some more backstory, why not check out our latest episode!

The Ghoul Guides@ghoulguides.bsky.social · 12mo ago

THEY’RE BURNING THE LABUBUS. The Association is in session and we’re discussing the Labubu craze, the people crying demon, and the Gothic history of moral panics. Guest starring Lauren’s Labubus, obviously. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/26fk...

Dr Lauren Nixon@laurenjnixon.bsky.social · last yr.

A coworker said to me ‘you watch horror right’ and I explained that actually, I don’t, @mazgoing.bsky.social explains the plots to me on the Internet because I get too scared.

The Ghoul Guides@ghoulguides.bsky.social · last yr.

What do zombies have to do with masculinity, empire and identity? Everything, it turns out! Listen now on your favourite podcast platform or head over to our YouTube for our review of 28 Years Later (2025) featuring special guest @kathleenh42.bsky.social and a discussion of the franchise so far

The Ghoul Guides@ghoulguides.bsky.social · last yr.

If you listened to our recent episode and felt a craving for Butter, it’s on the half price offer in Waterstones! A confronting exploration of femininity and consumption that will leave you uncomfortably hungry. This isn’t an ad, we just can’t walk past a Waterstones without going inside okay.

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The Ghoul Guides@ghoulguides.bsky.social · last yr.

In case you missed it, there’s a new episode up from us! Other podcast platforms are available - and you can also find us on YouTube. open.spotify.com/episode/6HER...

29: Butter (2024) - Recommendations

The Ghoul Guides Association · Episode

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The Ghoul Guides@ghoulguides.bsky.social · last yr.

Have you read Asako Yuzuki’s ‘Butter’ yet? This week at the Ghoul Guides Association, @laurenjnixon.bsky.social reviews the global bestseller and recommends some more reading! #GothsAssemble

The Ghoul Guides@ghoulguides.bsky.social · last yr.

In case you missed it, the Ghoul Guide Association is back in session both in podcast form and on YouTube: youtu.be/2Dd-KiEzNoQ?... #HorrorChat #PopCulture #GothsAssemble

So You Don't Like Horror? Episode 1

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The Ghoul Guides@ghoulguides.bsky.social · last yr.

Are you a would be horror fan, who loves something spooky but finds on screen gore sends you squeamish? Well, do we have thing for you. Check out the first ep of our new monthly series, So, You Don’t Like Horror?, now: #horror reviews for the scared shitless open.spotify.com/episode/7Cky...

The Ghoul Guides@ghoulguides.bsky.social · 3y ago

"And how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!" Washington Irving, THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW #31DaysOfHalloween

Black and white photo taken in the woods, showing lots of trees, and in the foreground dead trees lying on the floor.
The Ghoul Guides@ghoulguides.bsky.social · 3y ago

"My cognizance of the pit had become known to the inquisitorial agents-the pit whose horrors had been destined for so bold a recusant as myself-the pit, typical of hell, & regarded by rumor as the Ultima Thule of all their punishments." Edgar Allan Poe, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM #31DaysOfHalloween

Photograph of the Pit & Pendulum bar in Nottingham, with the black name written on a red sign.
The Ghoul Guides@ghoulguides.bsky.social · 3y ago

‘It was not a haunting. It was possession and not even that, but something she couldn’t even begin to describe. The creation of an afterlife, furnished with the marrow and the bones and the neurons of a woman, made of stems and spores.’ Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno Garcia #31DaysOfHalloween

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The Ghoul Guides@ghoulguides.bsky.social · 3y ago

"The ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes, and which is the scene of part of "Marmion," where the girl was built up in the wall. It is a most noble ruin [...] there is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows." Bram Stoker, DRACULA #31DaysOfHalloween

Black and white photo of Whitby Abbey, with its reflection able to be seen in the body of water in the foreground.