CFP: Tremate, tremate le streghe son tornate! Hexen in der Populärkultur – Figuren und Narrative in Medien und Künsten https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-161281 Zurich, 29.10.2026-01.11.2026, Dr. Meret Fehlmann Prof. Dr. Christine Loetscher, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.05.2026 Tremate, tremate le …

The CFP deadline for our Brontë Studies special issue on poetry is coming up - 1st April! Don’t be a fool - submit something!

Cherish the flame… 🔥 Penda's Fen, David Rudkin's haunting Play to Today, debuted 52 years ago today. Read about this enduring film's development from script to screen in Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene, available now from tenacrebooks.co.uk

CFP: Hideous, Invasive, Forgotten - Theorising Uncharismatic Species in Environmental History https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-161273 Augsburg, 03.09.2026-04.09.2026, Professur für Globale Umweltgeschichte und Environmental Humanities, Universität Augsburg; Centre for Environmental …

Join us online on Monday 23 March for @brycchancarey.bsky.social discussing The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 (Yale UP 2024) in @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk series. Starts 4pm CET, 3pm GMT, 10am EST newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #ecocrit

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

I ended up shedding a few tears watching this show, and the understanding of alchemy and grimoires was excellent. The dad's story reminded me of The Black Pullet.

If you'd like to know more about the #earlymodern alchemy featured in #SmallProphets, have a look at this thread. Spoiler warning - please only have a look if you're acquainted with the whole premise of the series. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

CFP: 'Spectral Tourism': Hauntology and Spectrality Research Group, York St John University blog.yorksj.ac.uk/hauntology/c...

New blog post: Mycelium Parish News and some thoughts on community www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

Book announcement!! 🎉 CREATURES OF STORY AND SONG looks through Britain’s stories and poems to rediscover our lost species. It’s time to remember what people thought about wolves, lynxes, great whales, great auks, sturgeon & more when they were all still here! 🐺🦫🐳💚 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Amazing new Contemporary Legend issue of Revenant Journal out. Open access for all. Congratulations to the editors and authors! www.revenantjournal.com

My favourite kind of post…editor-copy post…and this one was a doozy. So many terrific essays by so many terrific authors. It’s Zombitastic! 😃

Did you miss this weekend's talk? We were joined by Stefan Ekman to talk MAGICAL MODERNITY: A Brief Anatomy and History of Urban Fantasy. You can catch this class here youtu.be/RHpBSqETRTQ

Wow, they're still finding ways to mess this up... Maybe don't rely on the EU to solve your funding problem. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Settling in for this morning's Romancing the Gothic talk by Stefan Ekman on Urban Fantasy He's sharing the research from his book which is available for free!

"the standard story of the spirits of two brothers who had fought and fallen, and had haunted King's Hintock Court a few miles off till they were exorcised by a priest, and compelled to retreat into a swamp, whence they were returning to their old quarters at the Court at the.." 1/2 #phantomsfriday

Join us for another weekend of discussions on Speculative Ontologies 🚀 this time co-organised with @gianlucacalio.bsky.social ✨ looking forward to some heated debates on Speculative Climates in Cologne 🔥🌏 deadline for abstracts is April 30 🗓️

📢 #CfP für das 22. #Tolkien Seminar der @germantolksoc.bsky.social in Kooperation mit dem Umweltbildungszentrum Augsburg und WTP 📜Umwelt, Um-Welt und Mit-Welt in Tolkiens Werk 🗓️ 16.-18.10.2026 📍vor Ort in Augsburg oder online 💙📚 #fantasy #envhum #envhist www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/55220/tolkie...

📢 #CfP for the 22nd #Tolkien Seminar of the @germantolksoc.bsky.social in cooperation with the Environmental Education Centre in Augsburg and WTP 📜Environment, the World around us, and the Connatural World in Tolkien’s Works #envhum #ecocrit www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/55214/tolkie...

We've been working on this contemporary legend edition of REVENANT journal for years, out today! Huge amount of work from Sophie Parkes-Nield & Andrew Robinson, some work from myself and David Clarke, many wonderfully patient contributors & a couple of reviews from me also! www.revenantjournal.com

François Ragot, The Master of the Musical cats c. 1627-1630. This is a satire on dodgy singing teachers who make excessive claims. The cats, of course, can only say 'mi mi miaou' as their musical scores show. (Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII)

Trailer for Ildikó Enyedi's 'Silent Friend' Film About Trees from First Showing by Alex Billington "...centered around a giant, old ginkgo tree...follows 3 intertwined stories...exploring the idea of trees & plants being sentient & interacting with people." www.firstshowing.net/2026/beautif...

I am reading the will of Sir Henry Wyatt, who leaves a cup with his arms on to Thomas Cromwell and makes him one of his executors. Henry was imprisoned for opposing Richard III, then supported Henry Tudor's claim & became courtier under him (Henry VII). Here he is in prison with a nice cat:

Adam Smith ſays tax the rich (Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations, vol. III, p. 236 (1776))

The tag says Beaker People. Another mystery solved! #Stonehenge

Out in August! 💚 cup.columbia.edu/book/body-ho... #horror #bodyhorror

Entering the weekend like this angry-fish riding, mirrow and comb holding, slightly smiling merwoman in 1530 on a printer's mark from the Zurich-based Augustin Frieß... #bookhistory

Super excited to announce our big annual conference! 🥳 "Caring for Non-Humans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care among Animals, the Environment, and AI" 📍Prague, October 12-14 Organized by @johndorsch.bsky.social & yours truly 😇 Please share widely! 🙏 cetep.eu/news/cfa-car...

And some more spiral art as seen on the stone in front of the entrance to Newgrange (Sí an Bhrú), a passage tomb from c. 3100 BCE. #WrydWednesday

For this week's #WyrdWednesday, a repost of some spiral art at Knowth (Cnóbha), a complex of passage tombs from c. 3200 BC. Some of them reconstructed, but the stones still bear the original art.

Great-looking new collection from @boapublishing.bsky.social: Witchcraft and Magic in England, c. 1400–1920 🧙‍♀️ For some reason only available to institutions though, so those of us without an institution don't get to see it 👎 britishonlinearchives.com/collections/...

CALL FOR PAPERS Friendly reminder that the abstract deadline for this year's York Magic and Witchcraft conference is 14th March 📜 the theme is NATURE AND THE SUPERNATURAL, broadly defined 🌦️🌛🌍 Please send your abstracts to [email protected] ! @drdebsmoretti.bsky.social

🎨 Les Matthews, painting for the series ‘Children of the Stones’ (1977) #StandingStoneSunday

You can now read my article on "'Continuall feare, and danger of violent death:' Re-Imagining the 17th Century as Early-Modernism in Folk Horror" open access: angl.winter-verlag.de/article/ANGL... #folkhorror #earlymodern #oa #horror

PhD students, check out this International Doctoral Workshop in Cologne, Germany, in November. Deadline: 30 April. #envhist #envhum

1825: Saw today the largest piece of Ivy I ever saw in my life mailing a tree which it nearly surpassd in size in Oxey Wood it was thicker than my thigh & its cramping embraces seemd to diminish the tree to a dwarf - it has been asserted by some that ivy is very injurious to trees & by others...

that it does no injury at all - I cannot decide against it - the large pieces were coverd all over with root-like fibres as thick as hair & they represented the limbs of animals more than the bark of a tree

For #RomanSiteSaturday, here are the partly reconstructed remains of a Roman signal station near Bad Nauheim. The station was built beyond the limes in the 2nd cent. CE. It could summon a unit of Syrian archers stationed at Friedberg, if needed. The remains were partly reconstructed in 2010.🏺

For #RomanSiteSaturday, here are the partly reconstructed remains of a Roman signal station near Bad Nauheim. The station was built beyond the limes in the 2nd cent. CE. It could summon a unit of Syrian archers stationed at Friedberg, if needed. The remains were partly reconstructed in 2010.🏺

Every now and again I feel obliged to repost David E. Alter Jr's brilliant 1982 pic Bilbo's Great Adventure. Like a cross between a Victorian neo-medieval tapestry and an 8-bit platform game it condenses the whole story of The Hobbit into one image. My fave #Tolkien detail...that awesome little Bard

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

Are you ready for The Backrooms? Brush up on your analog horror homework by reading my new Film Quarterly article, available for FREE and the first ever (!) academic publication on the subgenre:

I like how the Georgians had straight-to-video mockbusters The Monk ... of Udolpho

Tomorrow I am also starting a week w/ the undergrads on Northanger Abbey & so I get to make once again the joke I first stole from, I think, @ecourtem.bsky.social-- about John Thorpe being the Austen character most likely to own a Cybertruck.

As we are still in the thrall of winter, JOIN ME at the Viktor Wynd museum (online) with The Last Tuesday Society THIS Friday (27th Feb) at 8pm (GMT) where I will be chatting about child ghosts. A ticket gets you a (time limted) recording if you can't make it on the evening! url-shortener.me/E818

Did you miss this weekend's excellent talk on Robert Aickman and the Artifice Short Story? @bronteschiltz.bsky.social gives us a deep dive into what's so very unsettling about Aickman's work! youtu.be/xcJ7yf72kpQ

Islands Matter: #Faroese & #Shetlandic #Folklore 26 Feb, free online via @insuhi.bsky.social Prof Jóan Pauli Joensen: “Water Beings in Faroese Folklore – Tradition & Change” & Prof Andrew Jennings: “From Fetlar to Foula – Norse Roots of Shetland Folklore” www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...

I'm just not sure what questions to ask. #Homunculus #SmallProphets

18 Feb 1559: b. Isaac Casuabon scholar and historian #otd in #Geneva contemporaries regarded him as one of the most learned people in #Europe (NPG) Gave George Eliot the name of one of her most memorable characters?