not talking to anyone except this caterpillar from the Florentine Codex (book 11, 103r) right now

Call for Contributions: Victorian Infrastructures & their Environmental Legacies We're still looking for articles to be included in our @openlibhums.org special issue! Abstracts are due 31 October, full texts 31 March '26. @bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social

Day 3 of #31days31books is Violet Tweedale’s Phantoms of the Dawn, originally published in 1924.

Happy Satan with similarly happy crotch-critter (1561) 😊

Hwæt! 🐉 Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English? #NationalPoetryDay

Free online seminar: Arda's Entangled Bodies and Environments, featuring analyses across Tolkien's works. October 18, sponsored by the Tolkien Society and the Uni. of Glasgow's Centre for Fantasy & the Fantastic. Details in the link or go to the Tolkien Society Events page. wp.me/p2vwHX-2gZ

Ch 3 of Voices of Thunder tells the story of the self-proclaimed prophet Elizabeth Poole, one of the only women of her era to intervene in political debate at the highest level. Just weeks before Charles I’s execution, Poole demanded an audience with Cromwell and the council of officers. 1/2

I just received the first copies of my book and I have to say it’s looking gorgeous! 😍 Thank you @reaktionbooks.bsky.social for making such a beautiful book #earlymodern

My book, 'Violence and the Brontës: Language, Reception, Afterlives', is out now with @edinburghup.bsky.social! It's the first major study of violence in the Brontës' fiction and afterlives, and I'd be thrilled if you ordered a copy for your library: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-violenc...

I directed Toby Jones when we recorded this series of readings of poems (& a bit of prose) by John Clare. Toby's readings lifted them off the page in ways I'd never experienced. & chief among all of them, is this, his reading of Clare's "Remembrances" (1832): open.spotify.com/episode/45Ib...

Dr Dee ushering in spooky season. An early modern woodcut featuring Dr Dee and a "swift, sharpe, poysonable tongued monster of many heads" that "devoureth men". #FolkloreThursday

Dr Dee ushering in spooky season. An early modern woodcut featuring Dr Dee and a "swift, sharpe, poysonable tongued monster of many heads" that "devoureth men". #FolkloreThursday

I have a lot of books about ghosts and hauntings on my shelves. So, as we countdown to Halloween 2025, I'm going to pick a book and a ghost/haunting from that book and post a little bluesky sized summary of that on here. #DailyGhost

Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.

If you’re working on any area of fantasy and the fantastic, come and join us at Glasgow in June 2026 and do consider presenting or running a workshop! All the info you need and the full CFP is here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20... @uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social

Publication day is October 2nd tomorrow. Launch tonight for the first day of the London Month of the Dead at Highgate Cemetery!

On this week's undead theme for #WyrdWednesday: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (14thC) mentions a story of a monster begotten by the dead that comes to haunt a vile rapist. (The full story's quote is in the Alt-Text.) The undead monster as depicted in a 1582-edition.

The new issue of the open access @plantperspectives.bsky.social Plant Perspectives interdisciplinary plant studies journal (Vol 2, Issue 2) is available for free download online with the theme Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities. Many articles and items of interest! www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/

Who said it, Emily Brontë or Werner Herzog?

Deadline today!

BIS 24.10. ANMELDEN: Interdisziplinäre Tolkien-Konferenz zum Thema "Tolkiens Werk auf dem Buchmarkt" vom 31.10.-2.11.2025 - auf Einladung der Deutschen #Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V. in Kooperation mit der #Buchwissenschaft der #UniMainz & Walking Tree Publishers 👉 download.uni-mainz.de/veranstaltun...

📢 21st Seminar of the @germantolksoc.bsky.social 📜Tolkien’s Works on the Book Market 📅31 October-02 November 2025, @unimainz.bsky.social 🌐Attendance in-person or online is free #Tolkien #bookstudies 💙📚 #lit #litwiss #fantasy #bookhistory #booksky

📢 Programm zum Seminar der @germantolksoc.bsky.social 📜Tolkiens Werk auf dem Buchmarkt 📅31.10.-02.11.2025, @unimainz.bsky.social 🌐Teilnahme vor Ort oder online ist kostenlos #Tolkien #bookstudies 💙📚 #lit #litwiss #fantasy #bookhistory #booksky

Exciting to see my publication with @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social in #JCLS 4(1)! It's been such a great journey discovering #DomesticSpace in 19th-Century #English-language #fiction and presenting our results at #CCLS2025. 🏡🚢🏙️🌉

Wow! Brilliant for writers!

Water damaged copy of “Alice's Adventures In Wonderland” which grew fungi.⁠ ⁠(Photo by Igor Siwanowicz).⁠ 🍄

@johnpower.bsky.social gave me a look at the newest issue of Wyrd Science, which includes a kind and thoughtful review of the academic collection Nigel Kneale and Horror which I edited. As far as I’m aware, this is the first published review; anyone wanting to review it can contact LUP!

1824: Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemd so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbd existance it hurt me to see it was...

gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old whitethorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & Herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its...

memory is forgotten.

A super interesting #CallForPapers #CfP for #entomology #insects fans in #LiteraryStudies #MediaStudies #FilmStudies #CulturalStudies #folklore #ComicsStudies 🦋🐛🐝🐞🪲🦗

If you live in the UK, you can now pre-order 'Stories of the Stones' directly from Reaktion Books or your favourite bookseller. Publication date is 1 February, 2026! Pre-order here: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/stories...

At this time last year, I was enjoying this view.

Proposals for our Biannual conference in Salem, MA, "American Nightmares II: Return to Salem" are due Oct. 1st, 2025. Please check our website for details: americangothicsociety.com/symposium/ #SSAG #CFP #Conference #GothicLiterature

wamm-sceaþa, m.n: evil-doer, sinner, criminal. (WAHM-SHEH-ah-tha / ˈwam-ˌʃɛa-θa) Image: Silos Apocalypse; N Spain (Santo Domingo de Silos), 1091-1109; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 11695, f. 40r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

At the southern edge of Dorchester (DVRNOVARIA) in #Dorset lies Maumbury Rings, a #Roman amphitheatre, constructed from the remains of a late #Neolithic henge Built around 2400 BC, the henge was older to the Romans than the Romans are to us 🤯 📷 Sept 2025 #RomanSiteSaturday (also #HengeWednesday)

Final a reminder for anyone who would like to be on a round table at the NeMLA 2026!

Welcoming the weekend like... #earlymodern #17thC

The dragon from the 1958 Mugnaini-illustrated edition of 'Beowulf'. #BookologyThursday #dragon #monster #folklore #legend

Behold this 18th-century cure for both excessive tea drinking AND enthusiastic teenage masturbation ... Also, childbirth and "grief", because why not 🫖🍆😭

The episode "Hans My Hedgehog" from Jim Henson's The Storyteller freaked me out as a small child, but at the same time has a lot to answer for in terms of my appreciation of horror. #WyrdWednesday

Peek under the sheet of "Ghosts & the Gothic" (Eds. @ruthheholt.bsky.social @joparsons.bsky.social) w/chapters by Katarzyna Ancuta on Asian spirits + Ardel Haefele-Thomas on specters of Black oppression in MASTER & DESCENDENT. @manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/

It's a big year for #Austen fans - not only #JaneAusten250 but BOTH major #PrideAndPrejudice #adaptations got jubilees: the 1995 BBC series (w the famous wet shirt scene!) turns 30 years #OTD & the 2005 film turns 20, too! Head to our catalogue to find these & more secondary sources to celebrate!🎂

Monthly Link Dump: September 2025: Arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

Looks great! But this is gutting: we have a major edition of the Chapman poems discussed here currently in proof, too late to cite this ☹️ Really unlucky timing both ways.

Join me, Leah Gordon and Stephen Ellcock at Bristol's Bookhaus on November 4th. They'll be talking about their vitally relevant new book exploring art, enclosure and common land. Personally I can't wait to get my hands on a copy. Please share! www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e135...

It was a beautiful day for welcoming the new cohort of MA Folklore Studies students to campus at the University of Hertfordshire AND for publishing a folklore book with @manchesterup.bsky.social - which you can buy now! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180377/

Its here! The first ever Ancient Times, our new zine covering everything stone related and beyond. This issue contains French Megaliths, Daniel Gumb, Flint, Stonehenge, Druids and more! 40 pages of stone-mania. Copies will be shipped in October. stoneclub.bigcartel.com/product/anci...

The Thomas Hardy Society is now on Bluesky. 💙📚 #C19th