Amazing free 19th C event you can join online! Always recommend listening to @drclaireocall.bsky.social, a great speaker & wonderful person.

You still have time to get your abstracts in for 'Placing the Nineteenth Century', hosted by EHUNineteen's PhD students!

Looking back at the 5 best #videogames I played last year & they're dominated by the games shared with others. 1. #Grounded by @obsidian.net - the setting & narrative of this one set it above other 'crafting' games. 2. #SniperElite4 - not a title I thought I'd love, but so great in co-op.

I have written a Blog Post for @vpfa.bsky.social about my time at @chawtonhouse.bsky.social as a Visiting Fellow! To read about the value of organisations like Chawton House to scholarly associations like VPFA, and an amusing snippet from a woman's diary: victorianpopularfiction.org/in-which-i-s...

🚨Call for Papers! ❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day 🗺️Loughborough University 📅27 March 2026 💷 FREE For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for... Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at [email protected] for more information

THE QUATERMASS EVENT takes over QUAD in Derby on Saturday 6 December 2025 from 12pm. All three Hammer films plus full supporting programme and guests. Booking and details available at derbyquad.co.uk

This evening’s meeting of the Ghoul Guides Association is Lauren’s thought on Wednesday season 2 so far, as well as some recommending reading if you’re looking for some more dark academia, mystery or weirdness. Spotify link (or find us on other platofrms!) open.spotify.com/episode/6IkC...

Please allow me to recommend some summer reading, followed with an invitation to join our book discussion. Everybody is welcome so please share widely (this poster has the correct start time of 5.30pm!) The text and audiobook are available on Internet Archive/Gutenberg. @vpfa.bsky.social

Ghouls, what does the sublime, the British Empire and custard creams all have in common? Pteridomania, baby! On this meeting of The Ghoul Guides Association, Lauren deep dives the Victorian cult of the fern - and its Gothic influences. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/30WD... #GothsAssemble

I came home last night to find this waiting for me: my first academic monograph. The Gothic at War is developed from my PhD research, with new work on Clara Reeve & Charlotte Smith, exploring the Gothic as a literature of conflict. Thank you to @uniwalespress.bsky.social for being great publishers!

Happy to share some events I will be doing upon publication of ‘The Roma’. Thank you to my wonderful publicist Jessie for this lovely design. We will update and share further details soon, and hope to see many of you there. Some signup links below 👇

navsa.org/2025/03/18/c... Please spread the word about this lovely conference: Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global Nineteenth Century University of St. Andrews 28-29 August 2025

Myself & Maddy Potter are putting together a proposed new companion to #Dracula. We want to engage much more with new areas & the novel's multimedia afterlife to show the value of the text today. Feel free to message any questions. Full CFP here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/01/...

Revenant journal wades hip-deep into "Post-Apocalyptic Waste" in new issue #10, incl. essays from Mark Fryers on sensationalist ecohorror in the UK series DOOMWATCH + Ann-Gee Lee & Bradley Wiggins on sustainable zombies in THE WALKING DEAD. @mattcrofts.bsky.social #horror www.revenantjournal.com

New issue of Revenant Journal, Post-Apocalyptic Waste, is out now! It's a fantastic issue that bridges #waste studies, #Gothic, and #apocalyptic fiction across its 12 articles & even includes amazing creative pieces, such as Olivia Steen's artwork 'The Impossible Heap' www.revenantjournal.com

One from the vaults: my 2018 article 'Tim Burton's Pop-Victorian Gothic Aesthetic' is free to read on the Gothic Studies website until the end of January! Even better - so is the complete back catalogue of GS & other EUP journals: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.7...

A great part of researching is referencing things you love. My latest publication on #Blade for @baconetti.bsky.social's #Vampire handbook not only quotes the iconic #Community line about Blade not giving vampires 'a square inch of leeway' but also #VentureBros 'Blacula' hunter, Jefferson Twilight ⚔️

I have a new piece on The Conversation on how Hammer's Dracula films became a key influence on early #Castlevania games. It's a small part of the story of how the world's most famous #vampire travelled the globe & continues to be influential today theconversation.com/castlevania-...