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 …

The next round of the Best Gothic Novel Ever competition is here! The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry Vs We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Vote in the comments!

The next round of the Best Gothic Novel Ever competition is here! The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry Vs We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Vote in the comments!

After being mildly waylaid by little things like PhD submission and viva completion, we finally have some new stuff coming to the blog very soon! In the meantime, why don't you make sure you're all caught up? makingitwyrd.wordpress.com

The Society for the Study of the American Gothic CFP for PAMLA in Seattle Nov. 12-17, 2026: GOTHIC: culture, power, conflict. 250-word abstracts and CVs to [email protected] by March 24th. Indicate any A/V requirements. Additional info here www.pamla.org/conference/2...

Have you got a wyrd take on pop culture you are desperate to share? We are now open for guest blog posts! Any length, as informal as you like (just cite your sources). Dm or email us your proposed posts or any questions 👻 Check out our past posts here: makingitwyrd.wordpress.com

Announcing a BIG 2-day ONLINE magical history conference supporting @folklorelibrary.bsky.social Dianne Purkiss, Mark Stoyle, Marion Gibson, Jeremy Harte and more... Day tickets just £10, £15 for the whole event. Ticket holders get recordings if they can't be there live Book at bit.ly/flaevents

After being mildly waylaid by little things like PhD submission and viva completion, we finally have some new stuff coming to the blog very soon! In the meantime, why don't you make sure you're all caught up? makingitwyrd.wordpress.com

Up next in our Best Gothic Novel Ever competition.... The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson Vs The Woman in Black - Susan Hill Vote in the comments!

Up next in our Best Gothic Novel Ever competition.... The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson Vs The Woman in Black - Susan Hill Vote in the comments!

Just watched I Know What You Did Last Summer and feel myself slipping into a fisherman horror rabbit hole. The violent instruments of fishing, the uncanniness of humans being at sea, the gross plastic outfits 😰

My new book has a cover!!

Just watched I Know What You Did Last Summer and feel myself slipping into a fisherman horror rabbit hole. The violent instruments of fishing, the uncanniness of humans being at sea, the gross plastic outfits 😰

I passed my viva with minor corrections! 💫 now to do absolutely nothing for a few days

1 week today until my viva! Any little bits of advice from people who have been there? 😅

Happy Valentine's Day! May you enjoy the eerie splendour of the Yorkshire moors while you and your offspring play out versions of the same love affair and the memory of you drives your lover to madness 🧡🩷❤️👻

Fine. We'll make a gothic music rec list 👻🎵🎶 What should be on it? Gothic references, creatures, characters and vibes all welcome. Think Wuthering Heights, Vampire, Everybody Scream

Did you miss this week's fantastic talk? Worry not! You can catch Dr Lauren Stephenson talking here about 'Revolting Women: Final Girls as Anti-Capitalist Symbols' in Modern Horror here! youtu.be/Youv3TENe2A

Have you got a wyrd take on pop culture you are desperate to share? We are now open for guest blog posts! Any length, as informal as you like (just cite your sources). Dm or email us your proposed posts or any questions 👻 Check out our past posts here: makingitwyrd.wordpress.com

I am launching a new blog and short fiction site UncannyCornwall.com in February. Exploring the mysterious, the fortean and unexplained in the land of myths and legend.

The second heat of the Best Gothic Novel Ever competition is here! Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier Vs Nights as the Circus - Angela Carter Vote in the comments!

On our blog you'll find posts on all sorts of gothic topics including Taylor Swift’s monstrous women and the uncanny double in Love Island. We also have plenty of rec lists covering gothic fiction, nonfiction, film, podcasts and video games! lincolngothicgroup.wordpress.com

Getting an academic job following our PhDs is looking scarily slim right now in the UK. So, in the spirit of our rec lists, let's put together a resource list of non-uni based jobs where a Gothic, arts or humanities PhD is still desired! Leave your suggestions below and share this post!

Our journey to find the best gothic novel ever continues... The Monk - Matthew Gregory Lewis Vs Icarus Girl - Helen Oyeyemi Vote in the comments!

Our journey to find the best gothic novel ever continues... The Monk - Matthew Gregory Lewis Vs Icarus Girl - Helen Oyeyemi Vote in the comments!

A recent addition to our fiction rec list, Bunny is a surreal and gruesome exploration of loneliness, creativity and femininity. It asks how can women do wrong when they are so cute? makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/fiction/

A recent addition to our fiction rec list, Bunny is a surreal and gruesome exploration of loneliness, creativity and femininity. It asks how can women do wrong when they are so cute? makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/fiction/

What work of gothic fiction is on your TBR this year? Check out our recommendations and suggest your own in the comments! makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/fiction/

What work of gothic fiction is on your TBR this year? Check out our recommendations and suggest your own in the comments! makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/fiction/

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

It's 2026 and we're so back! What have been your gothic/wyrd faves while we've been away? Films, TV, books, music, games - leave them in the comments! 👻👻👻

It's 2026 and we're so back! What have been your gothic/wyrd faves while we've been away? Films, TV, books, music, games - leave them in the comments! 👻👻👻

Just submitted my phd thesis on the prescient ecologies of David Rudkin. Someone get me a mince pie, pronto! 🎈🥳🎉

Christmas is a time for cheer and disgusting homicidal monsters. We have a blog post for that: makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/2024/12/16/t...

Christmas is a time for cheer and disgusting homicidal monsters. We have a blog post for that: makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/2024/12/16/t...

We may be a bit quiet on here for a few weeks while our social media person (@scarlettbutchers1.bsky.social) is busy prepping for PhD submission. Spooky things to come soon though 👻👻👻👀

If you missed this week's talk on powerful and vulnerable women in supernatural k-dramas... you can find it here youtu.be/sBnTwqRdX3Q

I'm getting through the last months of my phd by making teaser trailers for it. I would urge you all to do the same

Excited to finally be able to share my book with the world! Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga 💀⭐️ The book explores the relationship between celebrity culture and the Gothic in literature, media and popular culture. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gothic-ce...

Do you enjoy k-dramas? Do you enjoy the Gothic? Do you enjoy powerful supernatural women? Do we have the talk for you! This Saturday at 10am and 4pm British time. Online and free to access! 10 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman... 4 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

Finally beginning to get ideas for research I want to pursue after my PhD is over. Taylor Swift studies, the ecology of His Dark Materials, and ecophobia in Lorde's Solar Power need to watch their back 👀👀👀

Been thinking about temporal pandemonium and gothic repetition in video games recently. What game does it best (and why is it @undertale.com)?

Pumpkins on every corner, maybe a skeleton, if you're lucky. But something's wrong. It's Halloween, but you don't FEEL it. But then, tears of joy in your eyes, you remember makingitwyrd have rec lists with all kinds of spooky media. Halloween is saved! 👻👻👻 makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/recommendati...

An old tradition ... Fine Folk or Follow Friday #FF: @treadwells-books.bsky.social @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social @sebbyb.bsky.social @philh.bsky.social @odavies9.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social @julianneregan.bsky.social @mjpcuervo.bsky.social @lazaruscorporation.co.uk @edkarshner.bsky.social

Pumpkins on every corner, maybe a skeleton, if you're lucky. But something's wrong. It's Halloween, but you don't FEEL it. But then, tears of joy in your eyes, you remember makingitwyrd have rec lists with all kinds of spooky media. Halloween is saved! 👻👻👻 makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/recommendati...

Happy #BlackCatDay #BlackCatAppreciationDay all!🐈‍⬛ "A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere" ~ Groucho Marx

Horror Scholarship for Halloween www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/G/Glob...

The next Best Gothic Novel Ever battle is here! We are firmly in the 21st century with this one... The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón Vs If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio 👻👻👻 Vote in the comments