New #coastalstudies special issue just published – on 'Haunted Space, Story and Place'! My piece on container shipping sits alongside some excellent looking essays - lots open access. Many thanks to @karlbell.bsky.social & Brad Beaven for overseeing all this! journals.sagepub.com/toc/CLS/curr....

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Coming up this Thursday The 2026 Malcolm Dick Lecture in Midlands History 'Warwick Castle During the English Civil War' by Prof. Andrew Hopper Details below 👇

Midland History Journal@midlandhistory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us for the inaugural Malcolm Dick OBE Annual Lecture in Midlands History ⚔️ Warwick Castle During the English Civil War by Professor Andrew Hopper ⚔️ When: 21 May, 16:30 (followed by drinks reception) Where: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Alan Walters Building, Room G11 Everyone welcome!

Join us online this Wednesday for a celebration of some of the work being done by the wonderful members of Haunted Shores! – programme and registration info linked below.

Haunted Shores@hauntedshores.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Haunted Shores is 5 years old! Come to our Showcase on Wednesday 20 May, 1400-1800 BST. Register here for the Zoom link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #gothic #coastalstudies #literature #academia

**Call for book reviewers** As the Gothic Nature journal gears up for Issue VI (cfp linked), we're on the look out for people to undertake book reviews for the issue (draft deadline Nov 2026). If any of the titles listed below sound intriguing, get in touch!

So nice to see copies of this out in the world: A perfect winter beach read... should you prefer your beaches gloomy, chilly, and possibly haunted.

Angela Wright@angelawright1794.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Delighted to receive the hard copy of Jimmy Packham’s fabulous Coastal Gothic, 1719-2020 from our Cambridge Elements in the Gothic @dalegothic96.bsky.social @jfpackham.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

Delighted to receive the hard copy of Jimmy Packham’s fabulous Coastal Gothic, 1719-2020 from our Cambridge Elements in the Gothic @dalegothic96.bsky.social @jfpackham.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

Really looking forward to visiting @gihnyu.bsky.social on March 12 to talk about new book #IrishRomanticism @universitypress.cambridge.org

Glucksman Ireland House NYU@gihnyu.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Congratulations to @claireconnolly.bsky.social on the publication of "Irish Romanticism: A Literary History" @universitypress.cambridge.org ❗We're looking forward to launching this book in @gihnyu.bsky.social on Thursday, March 12 at 6:00pm ⬇️⬇️⬇️ as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

I’m very excited to teach a free online class on Robert Aickman and the art of the artifice ghost story as part of @romgothsam.bsky.social’s brilliant Romancing the Gothic series on 21 February! Join me: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...

Check out Walk Midlands latest newsletter for walks on the English midlands boundaries and borderlands; plus get to know The Derwent Press and learn about the lost Lapal Canal Tunnel 👇

Walk Midlands Newsletter | Substack

Walk Midland's monthly round-up of new day walks in the English Midlands accessible without a car, for walkers interested in all aspects of the region’s people, landscape and history and other content...

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Just the thing for @whitbynats.bsky.social and @whitbymuseum.bsky.social and has a section on Stoker, the seaside and lighthouses. Looking forward to reading it over the weekend holidays.

Jimmy Packham@jfpackham.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

I'm delighted to announce that I'll be co-editing a special issue of Gothic Studies: Arctic Gothic with Monica Germanà and Sara Wasson. Check out the CFP here: www.globalgoth.org/blog/arctic-...

Arctic Gothic: A new cfp for a Special Issue of Gothic Studies - Gothic Association

An exciting new issue of Gothic Studies is in the making!

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It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

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A Q. for detective fiction scholars! Do people have an opinion on whether or not discussions should refrain from revealing twists/whodunnit, if they can? I am writing about a Christie book and discussing the character who turns out to be the murderer (a fact irrelevant to my discussion!). Thanks!

Sound but unnerving advice from the evil looking toy in our eldest’s latest party bag.

Exciting update! ‘Summoned to the Séance’ is out next Thursday 12th December! 👻 Find it at @britishlibrary.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social @whsmithofficial.bsky.social and many more: shop.bl.uk/products/sum...

Dr Emily Vincent@dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 2y ago

VERY exciting news! I’m joining the @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesOfTheWeird series this December with ‘Summoned to the Séance: Spirit Tales from Beyond the Veil’!👻 Join hands around the séance table for 14 classics & lost gems of fiction inspired by the spiritualism movement🕯️

2 days until our online seminar with Dr Isabelle Gapp: join us on Zoom at 3pm (UK) this Thursday – details below!

Jimmy Packham@jfpackham.bsky.social · 2y ago

Please share, as Haunted Shores hasn’t quite made it to the new place yet! The next Haunted Shores online seminar with Dr Isabelle Gapp — on reindeer, Sámi herders, & shipboard transportation in Canada — on Thursday 5 December, 3pm (UK). Info/registration here! haunted-shores.com/2024/11/26/h...

Hi everybody: I’m excited to be able to share a new special issue from the Midland History journal on the ‘Haunted Midlands’ – all articles open access! Thanks to all involved! Please share with anyone who might enjoy spooky Midlands! www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/4...

Midland History

Haunted Midlands. Volume 49, Issue 3 of Midland History

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Please share, as Haunted Shores hasn’t quite made it to the new place yet! The next Haunted Shores online seminar with Dr Isabelle Gapp — on reindeer, Sámi herders, & shipboard transportation in Canada — on Thursday 5 December, 3pm (UK). Info/registration here! haunted-shores.com/2024/11/26/h...

Haunted Shores online seminar: Dr Isabelle Gapp, 5 December 2024

Haunted Shores online seminar series 3pm (UK time) 5 December 2024 Online (Zoom): link to be circulated ahead of seminar to registered attendees. We are delighted to invite you to the Haunted Shore…

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Project Servator — seemingly run by the animorphs

When you’re trying to feed the angry robo-dog from A Close Shave.

The painting of this Barbara Steele-a-like at the top of the stairs at this b&b is definitely haunted, right…

Turns out you can produce a frantic panic in the eyes of your students if you start reciting Carly Rae Jepsen lyrics in an effort to analyse “Call me Ishmael…” “We thought you might start singing.”

VERY exciting news! I’m joining the @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesOfTheWeird series this December with ‘Summoned to the Séance: Spirit Tales from Beyond the Veil’!👻 Join hands around the séance table for 14 classics & lost gems of fiction inspired by the spiritualism movement🕯️

I always suspected this of sport...

A crisp misty morning as backdrop for a writing day about hazy and lazy gothic beaches: looking forward to getting all these stories talking to each other today.

While I'm bumping into new people here, an intro 🧵! I work across gothic studies and blue humanities. My first book, Gothic Utterance (UWP), thought about the voices of the dead and their ethical imperatives in 19C US writing. www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...

Gothic Utterance | UWP

Gothic Utterance explores the vital role played by haunted and haunting voices in American Gothic literature produced between the Revolutionary War and the close of the nineteenth century, discussing ...

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Hello everybody! Having spent much of this week traipsing across the local fields to make the most of the November sunshine... I have finally traipsed into these other sunlit uploads! Will slowly get round to finding everybody again!