'The Sound of Falling' - achieves Haneke-like depths of icy grimness but is also a genuinely unsettling take on the idea of the haunted place/family, with a particular focus on women-centered intergenerational trauma.

Paid opportunity for PhD students and ECRs! The Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (@montaguletters.bsky.social) 2026 Summer Internship Programme is open for applications. Deadline: 1st April 2026 More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6359

'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' is a tremendous addition to that worthy pantheon of non-horror films that manage to be significantly more unsettling than 90% of actual horror films. Bonus points for the terrifying hamster.

Tomorrow! 7pm Irish time! Join us for a fab deep dive into the world of Irish spooky podcasting! All welcome: you just need to register via the link below:

I really adored this - 'Brian' by Jeremy Cooper (2023). Really moving & affirming short novel about an isolated man whose life gradually transforms after he joins the BFI & becomes ever more absorbed in the world of film.

🚨We're hiring! The Research Ireland Centre ADAPT at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a Post-Doctoral Researcher in NLP for Historical Texts and Knowledge Graphs with Prof John Kelleher on the VOICEs project. 💡Find out more here www.adaptcentre.ie/careers/ @researchireland.ie

Join us on 25th February at 7 pm Irish Time for the first of our discussions with Irish podcasters! We'll be talking to folks from Petrified & Scream Queens about their work, the genre, and the practice of podcasting. This online event is free & open to all (registration necessary). bit.ly/4qufUTv

Such good news - basic Income for Artists to become permanent: www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

“There are places in the Pacific almost as far away as another star.” STRANGE SOUTH SEAS | Beatrice Grimshaw #StrangeStoriesbyIrishWomen swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/st...

Really enjoyed seeing Friedkin's Sorcerer for the first time at the Lighthouse this afternoon: it looked amazing in new 4k restoration. Rain, sweat & driving peril so realistic you feel unpleasantly damp just watching it...

The plenary speakers have just been announced! And a reminder that the CfP for the 18th biennial conference of the International #Gothic Association closes on the 31st of January. hullgothic.wordpress.com @igagoths.bsky.social @gothicstudies.bsky.social

One of the reasons why I love ‘Arrival’ is because it suggests that with adequate whiteboard access, academics can save humanity

New BARS Digital Event Announcement: Re-reading the Minerva Press Taking place 22 Jan 2026, 6pm GMT For more info and to register for the Zoom link: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6265

THE DARK RETURN OF TIME by R. B. Russell is a title in our catalogue occasionally overlooked. It's an uncanny tale for bibliophiles: It concerns an antiquarian bookshop in Paris. One day a gentleman enters the shop searching for a book that should not exist. swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/th...

A proclivity for producing v large tomes must run in the family...

Beginning 2026 with a Battlestar Galactica rewatch: still, for the most part, fantastic.

Last day today to download this fascinating sounding book in this great series

This was a really special event: www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Great line-up in this beautifully designed new anthology from @helleborezine.bsky.social including a new South Armagh-set horror story from my v talented brother Eóin Murphy @ragemonki.bsky.social

📣 Trinity College Dublin is hiring 2 #tenuretrack Assistant Professors in Sociology. 👉 Environmental Sociology. Closing Dec 1 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH703/a... 👉 Gender and Sexuality. Closing Dec 2 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI055/a... @tcdsociology.bsky.social @isa-rc28.bsky.social @eaps.bsky.social

Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street

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!