We all love houseplants, but what does that mean it a time of climate precarity?🌱🪴🌵 makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/2024/09/18/f...

A little snippet of what we get up to on tiktok. Here is ep 1 of our Pop Girlies and the Monstrous Feminine - Sabrina Carpenter

My PhD thesis is due 15 weeks today 😰 so, if anyone sees any jobs lying around in the lecturing, research, proofreading, or copywriting sphere, I am soon available! Research interests inc. gothic, folk horror, ecocritcism, cultural materialism, post-war British theatre, David rudkin, toxic nostalgia

Film International Special Issue Calls for Papers: ‘Transnational Horror Culture in Cinema’ This themed issue of Film International will explore the complex relationship between horror culture per se and cinematic expression. Deadline: 30 Nov 2025 👉ow.ly/XRiK50WZfAf

The next IGA conference will be at the University of Hull, England on 28-31 July 2026! You can find the CFP and more information at hullgothic.wordpress.com

It's time to add some new texts to our nonfiction rec list! Books, articles, blog posts - have you written something gothic you think should be on here? Have we missed your favourite? Let us know! 👻👻👻 makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/non-fiction/

What connects these works? Correct guesses get a warm feeling of a job well done 👻👻👻

There's something creepy about Love Island...💔🖤 We have a blog post about it: makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/2024/08/09/s...

Did we mention we are on TikTok? vm.tiktok.com/ZNdgb7KMj/

The next round of the Best Gothic Novel Ever competition is here! 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson Vs 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde Vote in the comments!

All this Wuthering Heights talk has us thinking about adaptation. What is the purpose of an adaptation? Can (or should) we expect adaptations to be faithful to the original work? 🤔

With spooky season coming up, what better time to read about 2:22 A Ghost Story...👻👻👻 makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/2024/07/31/2...

We've had some new followers, so let's take a stroll back through our blog posts. Fans of Taylor Swift, Female Rage, monstrous feminity: this one's for you 👻 makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/2024/07/11/g...

We are now on Tiktok! Follow us @makingitwyrd 👻👻👻

Who has spotted our new header? Tag yourself - are you disco ghost, book ghost or movie ghost? 👻👻👻

Did someone say rebrand? 👻👻👻 Check out our fresh blog: makingitwyrd.wordpress.com

Summer's ending and the spooky season approaches. That's not the only thing changing around here... Something wicked this way comes 👻👻👻

The Best Gothic Novel Ever competition continues! 'Our Wives Under the Sea' - Julia Armfield Vs 'Beloved' - Toni Morrison Vote in the comments! #LGGbestgothicnovel

You can now view the brackets for the past 'Best Gothic ... Ever' competitions at your leisure. Have a topic in mind for future competitions? Let us know! 👻👻👻 lincolngothicgroup.wordpress.com/best-gothic-...

It has been so lovely seeing such positive feedback for this course! Do let me know if you'll be joining us so I can say hi!

My next blog post for Lincoln Gothic Group is up! This one is about one of my favourite films this year.

👻New blog post alert!👻 this one is an informal chat about The Ballad of Wallis Island and all the ways it seems gothic but actually isn't... lincolngothicgroup.wordpress.com/2025/08/21/t...

Best Gothic Novel Ever is back! Picnic at Hanging Rock Vs The Turn of the Screw Vote in the comments! #LGGBestgothicnovel

This episode of @americanhysteria.bsky.social has got me thinking about the role of the babysitter in horror. She is a figure of dichotomy: the virgin/temptress, domestic/public, precarious employee/authority figure. She is seen through the male gaze with often violent consequences

What is your favourite gothic fiction from Asia? lincolngothicgroup.wordpress.com/fiction/

Current read:

It's so hot I could fall asleep in the Australian wilderness only to wake up and find my schoolmates and teacher have disappeared in unusual circumstances

The UK is sweltering right now and I need more immersion. What gothic stories involve extreme heat? 💀☠️🥵👻

The Ballad of Wallace Island includes multiple gothic tropes: obsession, toxic nostalgia, isolated location, old Manor house, dead wife, 'backward' rural community. But its positive undertone keeps it from falling into gothic depair. It is almost anti-gothic

Some new additions have been made to our film rec list and the accompanying letterboxd list 👻👻👻 What are we missing? boxd.it/x1R0o Lincolngothicgroup.wordpress.com/films/

Anyone here going to the Falmouth 'Haunted Modernities' conference in July? #folklore #falmouth #myth www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/dar...

First day back PhDing after a 6 week break and immediately identified the problem that had been tripping me up. Breaks really do help, folks 😅

The International Gothic Association is a large family of academic researchers, students, artists and writers with a shared interest in all things Gothic. www.globalgoth.org

The next Best Gothic Novel Ever Battle is: The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman Vs Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë Vote in the comments! #LGGbestgothicnovel

Happy 400 followers to us! 👻👻👻

I think it's time to update our Non-Fiction rec list 🤔 What gothic books, articles, blogs have you been loving recently? Self-promotion is always welcome! 👻👻👻 lincolngothicgroup.wordpress.com/non-fiction/

I think it's time to update our Non-Fiction rec list 🤔 What gothic books, articles, blogs have you been loving recently? Self-promotion is always welcome! 👻👻👻 lincolngothicgroup.wordpress.com/non-fiction/

Today's Best Gothic Novel Ever Battle is going to be bloody... Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Vs. Dracula - Bram Stoker Vote in the comments! #LGGbestgothicnovel

Up next in our Best Gothic Novel Ever competition we have: Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu Vs The Secret History - Donna Tartt Vote in the comments! #LGGBestgothicnovel

We're thinking about cosy gothic today. Our top pick is Howl's Moving Castle. What's yours? 👻👻👻

Thanks for coming @garydrawnsley.bsky.social good subject matter for a Lincoln talk @lin-conservation.bsky.social @lincolngothic1.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social @isochesh.bsky.social @uolconservation.bsky.social

After an Easter hiatus, we are back on our spooky nonsense! 👻👻👻 Keep your eyes peeled for the next Best Gothic Novel Ever round...

So excited for this tomorrow! "Children's Gothic Horror" will investigate the overlooked topic of children as audiences of the horror genre🩸 DM @gothicauob.bsky.social to join!

New Post Alert! 👻👻👻 Lydia explores the relationship between Folklore and Landscape in English fiction! lincolngothicgroup.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/f...

Let's get out of the shadows. What are some of your sunny gothic picks? Books, films, plays - anything! Mine is, of course, Picnic at Hanging Rock.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tennyson-a... Free lecture on May Bank Holiday Monday for anyone interested in Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites @lincolngothic1.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social @lin-conservation.bsky.social

The Essex Serpent moves on! Up next: The Italian - Ann Radcliffe Vs We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson Vote in the comments! #LGGbestgothicnovel

Following an extremely close battle across X and Bluesky, The Woman in Black advances! Up next, we have a Sarah Perry-off: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry Vs Melmoth by Sarah Perry Vote in the comments! #LGGbestgothicnovel

A reminder that we have a blog with short essays and recommendation lists! Why not give them a read and let us know what you think? lincolngothicgroup.wordpress.com