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'.

Algarve reading for the day:

Some very good news for academics chasing permissions & high res images.

The slope of Slieve Gullion yesterday morning.

I guess the news is out and it’s really happening! Eek @rs4vp.org #RSVP2026

This is a smart and good piece of criticism abt the recent crop of TV novels. Though I don’t think that staging a winner take all cage match between TV and the Novel has ever been a particularly useful or illuminating critical pursuit. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...

What books about the creation/reception of a single creative work - say a novel, a film, a poem etc - would you happily recommend?

One week to go until a big day of Gothic fiction, led by the very talented Dr Charlotte Baker, with an extended workshop plus optional one-to-ones! Gothic Imaginings takes place on the 12th July... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gothic-ima...

CFP: Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People An online conference hosted by the University of Münster 11-12 February 2026 Abstracts due 11:59pm on 31 August! Full CFP and to submit: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/ Please share!

28 Years Later - a shambles of a film best seen as an allegory about the struggle people in rural communities have in securing a timely appointment with their local GP post-Covid?

Excellent @irishgothichorror.bsky.social film club discussion of 'Eyes Without a Face,' this evening!

ESSENTIAL VIEWING: Filmmaker and @blackzerodisc.bsky.social founder @stephenbroomer.bsky.social just posted a very timely and disturbing video essay for Canada Day on Rob Fothergill's 1970 film COUNTDOWN CANADA: youtu.be/57oCoeb9mYw

Lect/Asst Prof in Creative Writing, Temp 5 years, 0.5 FTE University College Dublin universityvacancies.com/university-c...

Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature University of East Anglia 12 months fixed term full time www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS327/l...

We have a gorgeous poster for our film club event, which is this coming Wednesday 2nd July, designed by @maireadcasey.bsky.social - don't forget to register to get a link to the film and the zoom chat! For more information: www.eventbrite.ie/e/inghs-film...

Just watched Eyes Without a Face/Les Yeux Sans Visage in preperation for our @irishgothichorror.bsky.social film club on Wednesday! Gorgeously horrifying. Still plenty of time to register!

Join us! Free online link to the film will be provided!

It's June 27th! May your Lottery run smoothly, and pay no heed to what those crazy fools over in the north village are saying.

Today my research efforts accidentally brought me to one of the greatest/worst book covers I have ever seen:

It's Midsummer! Or Midsommar....