It's gorgeous - see on the big screen if you can!

IT’S HERE! Our first volume of strange and supernatural stories for the darker half of the year. Nine new tales by masters of the genre: Ramsey Campbell, Helen Grant, Reggie Oliver, Ally Wilkes, Steve Toase, Verity Holloway and more. 👉🏼 Get your copy on www.helleborezine.com

Now streaming - ‘Strange Harvest’ is a really effective mash-up of true crime mockumentary & occult horror film.

Visited Urney Graveyard - gorgeous historical ground in North Louth - in honour of All Soul's Day.

Dark Academia vibes on campus tonight

I'm relaunching my little imprint with a new website, new social media presence, and a new varied slate of projects - follow the official bluesky account at @spectacularoptical.bsky.social - books, films, screenings + more!

Let's Learn about types of ghosts

Couple of Shirley Jackson mentions here (naturally!)

👇Brilliant discussion w/ @evepatt.bsky.social, @clareclarke.bsky.social, @murphgothic.bsky.social, @ailise-bulfin.bsky.social, & Una Mannion on the moral complexities of creating & consuming #truecrime for the 2025 Arts & Humanities Research Festival @tlrhub.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky 🗃️

October's Crime & Mystery column is up, featuring reviews of new books by A.E. Goldin, Rita Mae Brown, Tim Sullivan, and Juneau Black.

Behind the Headlines: Debating the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 40 years on Join us for a discussion on whether the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement was a crucial step toward peace or a controversial stumbling block. 🗓️ Monday, November 3rd, 6.30pm. No tickets required www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

"a community’s unwitting complicity and cover-up lets something Lovecraftian in to feed": Peter Hall & Paul Gandersman’s found footage MAN FINDS TAPE (2025) screens 7pm (16 Oct) at @sxswsydney.com projectedfigures.com/2025/06/09/m...

Are you ready for HELLEBORE’s first short story anthology? 👉🏼Pre-orders for Tales of Occult Britain are open worldwide on helleborezine.com

Does the Netflix algorithm know something about the Beckhams the rest of us don't?

OH MY GOSH THIS IS GOING TO BE SO MUCH FUN

Bravo

Amazing looking volume - and what's more, my brother @ragemonki.bsky.social aka Eóin Murphy has a fantastic S Armagh set story in it!

We're having an online pub quiz to celebrate the spooky season! This will be an informal, relaxed, fun evening of socializing while flexing our trivia knowledge. Registration is free and open to everyone. www.eventbrite.ie/e/inghs-onli...

Assistant Prof of Modern Ireland post at Notre Dame

The Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival kicks off today! 🎉 Start your week with a dose of inspiration and discovery, and join us for thought-provoking talks and panel discussions that will spark new ideas and conversations. #TCDAHFest #ResearchMatters

It's going to be good!!!

Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Creative Writing - 5 years University College Dublin Full time, temporary www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS472/l...

What happens when true crime becomes entertainment? Join us for 'The Evidence of Things Not Seen': Ethics & the True Crime Industry to explore how ethics, storytelling & responsibility clash in the true crime boom. 🎟️ Get tickets: bit.ly/483nQEX #TCDAHFest @murphgothic.bsky.social

For the 50th anniversary of Stephen King’s The Shining, eds. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale solicit chapter proposals for an edited collection Fifty Years of The Shining: New Essays. Proposals are welcome on any aspects of the novel, adaptations, paratexts, and cultural influence.

I am absolutely delighted to be taking part in this panel discussion with @murphgothic.bsky.social, @ordonnel.bsky.social, @profdarryljones.bsky.social, and @drdara.bsky.social. I'll be talking about Gertrude Barrows Bennett. It's part of @tlrhub.bsky.social's research festival. Free & open to all!

IASIL ECR: Research Ireland Postdoc Information Session 6-7pm [Irish time] September 11, 2025, ONLINE Thanks to @lnhowley.bsky.social Please share #IrishStudies #ECR #Postgrad #IrishResearch sign up & more info: www.iasil.org/2025/09/iasi... PS - MENTORS we want you (see more at the link)

Looming start of term reading...

Breathtaking! Thanks to Oxford World’s Classics for making this dual edition of Mary Shelley’s ‘The Last Man’ & ‘The Journal of Sorrow’ possible & beautiful! Out in Feb in UK, May in US—in the bicentennial year of these literary masterpieces.

American Gothic Studies is seeking contributions for our "EXHUMATIONS" section. Exhumations present new editions of American Gothic texts (max 12K words) that have been lost, forgotten, overlooked, or otherwise unavailable to contemporary readers.

Ted Levine & Brooke Smith recording their country music classic ‘Put The Lotion In The Basket If You Still Love Me’

Reminder that the deadline for SSAG proposals for our American Nightmares II Conference in Salem, MA, is due October 1st! More info: americangothicsociety.com/symposium/ #SSAG #GothicLiterature #Conference #Horror

It's Alive!! Our Gothic Reading Group Returns September 26th at 2:30 PM EDT with The Ballad of Black Tom. Zoom Registration Link: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #SSAG #ReadingGroup #GothicLiterature

Join me and @irishgothichorror.bsky.social next week for a discussion about Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971). All welcome but registration is required: www.eventbrite.ie/e/inghs-film...

Great to see TCSM on the big screen & in 35m @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social

Please dm me if you can help.

Suburban Gothic is back, baby, and in fine style - I have a lot of spoilerific thoughts about 'Weapons', but found it tremendously enjoyable and v well constructed - see it with a crowd if you can.

This takes about one minute to do, it’s extremely simple, just a few simple questions, and you don’t need to be an artist to do it, it’s open to the general public. And the far right are trying to load it, so please take a moment and fill it out

I very much liked "Gold" by Helen Grant. It's in her superb collection "Atmospheric Disturbances" from @swanriverpress.bsky.social

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

Tomorrow! Still time to register.

1 like = 1 drawing by H. P. Lovecraft "Pictorial skill is something I have to envy without emulation . . . . . . for my best contemporary efforts don’t show much difference from my creations of twelve-year-old days." —H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, 30 Jul 1923

We’re open for submissions all month! Very interested in seeing more scripts, art, and photography. Submissions guidelines apply, link in bio

This month’s film club watch is the classic supernatural horror film ‘The Haunting’ (1963). Join us on Zoom at 7pm on Wednesday 6th August! Link: www.eventbrite.ie/e/inghs-film... To find links to the zoom look for the "View the Event" button in eventbrite email after registration. Link here:

The Department of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin are calling for expressions of interest in two great funding schemes - one for full PhD funding, and one for postdoctoral positions, both through Research Ireland (our main state research council). 1/2

FYI @ragemonki.bsky.social very interesting piece about the current genre publishing scene.

“Silent Spring,” which exposed the dangers of DDT and other pesticides, was powerful enough to activate emotions, never florid, and willing to use the tropes of pastoral Americana for all they were worth. Bill McKibben reflects on Rachel Carson’s classic.

On this day in 1974, Johanna Davis was killed when a taxi careened onto the sidewalk where she was walking with her son. Her only novel, Life Signs, deserves to be remembered as much as Erica Jong's Fear of Flying and Sue Kaufman’s Diary of a Mad Housewife. neglectedbooks.com/?...

‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2025. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word!

Murderland by Caroline Fraser - as gripping as any horror novel & beautifully written. Central thesis explores relationship between industrial pollution & the serial murder 'epidemic'.