Join us on 25th February at 7 pm Irish Time for the first of our discussions with Irish podcasters! We'll be talking to folks from Petrified & Scream Queens about their work, the genre, and the practice of podcasting. This online event is free & open to all (registration necessary). bit.ly/4qufUTv

Friday 8pm UK 📺 twitch.tv/VirtualGothNight

This week's obsessions at Virtual Goth Night 🦇 🦇 Faderhead - Dark Water 🦇 Gary Numan - The Fall 🦇 Santa Hates You - Raise The Devil 🦇 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Arabian Knights + Corlyx, Ministry, Rob Zombie, Bad Omens, Filter, Gesaffelstein, KMFDM, Nine Inch Nails, Poppy, Prong

We are delighted to announce the next event in our Tuesday Nights Live! series. Mentoring Panel – Online Event 🟥 Free event. Registration is required via 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

www.bigissue.com/culture/film... I've done quite a few interviews in the lead up to the release of Wuthering Heights. I really enjoyed the Big Issue's focus on Heathcliff as Landlord (yet another thing that goes missing if you chop out the second half of the book in adaptation!)

Hannah's Bookshelf Imbolc Special is now available for 'listen again' on Mixcloud; including a flash fiction story by yours truely www.mixcloud.com/Hannahs_Book...

Government consultation on proposed changes to immigration & settlement in the UK Take the time to complete: ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Government consultation on proposed changes to immigration & settlement in the UK Take the time to complete: ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Hannah's Bookshelf Imbolc Special is now available for 'listen again' on Mixcloud; including a flash fiction story by yours truely www.mixcloud.com/Hannahs_Book...

Take A Bite - female vampires in literature & folklore books.apple.com/gb/book/take... #vampires #nonfiction

Pleased to be part of this year's Hannah's Imbolc Special on North Manchester FM. The show will be going out on Saturday 31st January, 2-4pm, and the broadcast details (including the link to listen online) are here: hannahkate.net/north-manche...

Goths for Breakfast will take place on February 28th today. Everyone gets a one hour slot (tight) and we welcome all sorts of talks or workshops. On the Gothic, horror, the supernatural, folklore, spooky histories, pitch me anything! Email is sam at romancingthegothic dot com!

I'm planning the annual charity teach-athon for Romancing the Gothic. GOTHS FOR BREAKFAST is a full day of classes and workshops (more or less related to the Gothic) raising money for @magicbreakfastuk.bsky.social to feed hungry kids! Looking for volunteer speakers! Get in touch!

JOIN ME on Thursday 12 February for THE BONEHOUSE - a live-streamed ghost story. Tickets are Pay What You Decide and are available at the link in the image. Book now!

My short story "The Cold Moon Crown" will be appearing in the Winter edition of WAXEN, which goes on sale February 1. If you're into Christmas stories involving weird old-money families with skeletons in the closet, I daresay you might enjoy it.

Pleased to be part of this year's Hannah's Imbolc Special on North Manchester FM. The show will be going out on Saturday 31st January, 2-4pm, and the broadcast details (including the link to listen online) are here: hannahkate.net/north-manche...

💕 Valentines Walk in the Woods 💕 On Sunday 15th February at 1pm, I'm leading a gentle, social walk in Bailey's Wood, Blackley, with stories & folklore about the origins of Valentine's Day. It's free, and it's perfect for people who don't like Valentine's Day! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/valentines...

Just out in the Horror Studies book series! www.uwp.co.uk/book/urban-l... #horror #horrorstudies #newbook #urbanlegends @uniwalespress.bsky.social

Last week's Romancing the Gothic with Ishan Tripathi explored The Monstrous Feminine to Trans Vampires: Horror as Counter-Archive A great talk on transnational cinema! Come look youtu.be/Kq9HYS-tWpE

Have you got your ticket for tomorrow's online talks? All on horror as a 'counter archive', from the monstrous feminine to trans vampires! A look at transnational cinema!

'Theology & Vampires,' edited by @madelinepotter.bsky.social What can vampires teach us about God?Through an analysis of the relationship between theology & vampires,this book provides a glimpse into the versatility of the vampire as a tool for theological enquiry www.bloomsbury.com/us/theology-...

How did Wuthering Heights go from a 'tale of hate' (1920 adaptation) to the 'Greatest Love Story' (2026)? Come find out with me Drawing on the hundreds of hours of research I've done on Wuthering Heights adaptations! #WutheringHeights February 13th at 7pm or February 12th at 2pm GMT (see below)

A murderer is on the loose. With hundreds of carefree partiers celebrating Murder Night, can Cecil and Tamika find the murderer before the killer gets them all? Ticket and tour information: www.welcometonightvale.com/live

“Covid is over” might be the biggest lie sold to us in a staggering decade of lies

Really pleased that the lecture I gave on disability in history for @histassoc.bsky.social is now live and #openaccess #DisabilityHistoryMonth #CriptheCurriculum #18C #WilliamHay #LifeWriting Link: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Early birds save $$! 🐦 Presenter registration: ✅ $250 by 12/31/25 ✅ $290 by 02/15/26 ✅ $325 after 02/15/26 Presenters must register by 02/15, 2026, or they will be removed from the program.

Wessen saublöde Idee war es die gesamte Adventszeit überall Live Mucke zu haben?!?

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

1 billion people are on the move today. Let’s commit to ensuring that every migrant can access timely, affordable and dignified healthcare. Learn more about WHO action to promote health of migrants: bit.ly/4je2uYP #HealthForAll

It’s #InternationalMigrantsDay Migration has always been a part of human history, with people moving to seek better opportunities and escape conflicts, violence and climate-related impacts.

It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

New work from the Haunted Shores network!

Tomorrow! Only £4 per ticket. www.noisyghost.co.uk/event-detail...

Last chance for tickets! I'm very excited for this show and hope to drum up an enthusiastic crowd. Edinburgh folks: 'Horror Films as Therapy' workshop, Saturday 8:15pm at Banshee Labyrinth. See you there! @madelinepotter.bsky.social @gnofhorror.com www.noisyghost.co.uk/event-detail...

This year, we paid out an incredible £47.5 million to our members, the highest ever amount in a single year! We hope to keep up our momentum in 2026. #ALCSAdvent 🎁

Liverpool graduate Sam Leonard aims to get Christmas number one for his band Idle Lies with their track 'Next Christmas You'll Be Home'. Every download helps raise funds for The Walton Centre - alumni.liv.ac.uk/news/stories...

New publication: Over one in four UK children face food insecurity: what can paediatricians do? authors: Rosalyn Arnold, Rosalie Cattermole, David Taylor-Robinson, Dougal Hargreaves, Rachel Loopstra Read the full paper online: tinyurl.com/2zv88j56

I don’t think I’ve heard Percy Shelley described as “serial eloper” before… 🙂 #SeedTalks #GothicWriters

A good time to repost this: open.substack.com/pub/dorkatam...

Received my review copy of Maggie Nelson’s book on #SylviaPlath and #TaylorSwift. This is my kind of book ❤️ Look out for my chapter on Plath and pop music, American identity, TS, and Lana del Rey in the forthcoming The Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath.

Join us on Friday, December 12 at 12:00pm for this month’s edition of Membership Matters where we will discuss publishing your pop culture scholarship. Sign up at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This week's Romancing the Gothic 'Blast from the Past' is this talk introducting the Gothic author Sheridan Le Fanu (most famous, perhaps, as the author of 'Carmilla'!) Want to know more about the author famous for his sapphic vampires? Check it out! youtu.be/HIwgqyuY1nA

JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics

so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?

Intrigued to learn more about the world of the gothic and horror? Discover more now with our gothic paperbacks now only £25! 📚 universityofwalescart.glassboxx.com/product-cate...

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