Genuine pleasure presenting our reading of Cry To Heaven at @hauntedshores.bsky.social this morning! Seeing and hearing the wonderful presentations on Stephen King and Dion Fortune + the myriad ways I have pronounced 'castration' in the space of 20 minutes was great fun! 🎶🌊🏛🏳️‍🌈

Maddy has coined the phrase 'metronome of corpses' leading to an 'acoustics of death' - a grotesque abundance of potential band names

Maddy Potter on wet ecologies and tertium aliquid in Mariner! Landlocked perspectives made impossible! Nonhuman entanglements allow for imagining new ways of being!

Next panel!!! Boats!!!!

Elsa Bouet on The Beach House! Thick water! So many taps! Water invading domestic spaces via taps!

Jamie Gorrod with more seals!! This time from 'Song to the Seals' by Granville Bantock (1930). So many engineers become folklorists and antiquaries! Well. Two that I know of - him and Robert Hunt.

This is a treat just for me!!! Karin Murray-Bergquist talking about maybe my favourite thing in the world - GHOST SHIPS

Poetics of steamship travel writing! Musicality of the rolling motion of the ship!

Monica Germana on selkies and seals in our second panel of the day at 'Unquiet Shores'!

Closing this panel is Cecile Rose's paper on Genderless Voices: The Androgynous Sirens of Victorian Arts #UnquietShores

Next up, Otilla Veres presents 'Nobody Underneath a Big Wave': Sedimentary Remnants in Alice Oswald's Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea #UnquietShores

Now on "genderless voices: the androgynous sirens of Victorian arts" by Cecilia Rose... The siren was a parallel to victorian sex workers for whom men were catching sti/ syphilis from (sex followed by death) #unquietshores session 1a

Wonderful! Send us photos of all your #UnquietShores pets! 🐾

Luna (currently cat sitting) is listening quietly to Veres Ottilia presenting "nobody underneath a big wave: sedimentary remnants in Alice Oswald's Nobody: a hymn to the sea" #unquietshores session 1a @hauntedshores.bsky.social @macabredanse.bsky.social

Day 1 of #unquietshores conference is now underway. In session 1 - echoes from antiquity (parallel sessions) I've been learning about the death of Pan in literature around the 1910 period. #gothicConference @hauntedshores.bsky.social @macabredanse.bsky.social

Welcome to day 1 of #UnquietShores. Some technical challenges having been overcome, session 1a Echoes from Antiquity in underway. Billie Gavuron joins us remotely with a paper titled "A cry from thr shore: litter all voices & the primordial in Plutarch and Alfernon Blackwood

Unquiet Shores conference is now underway! We are so excited to listen to so many exciting papers — and attend so many fun workshops! #UnquietShores

Attending this conference today and for the next two days. Really looking forward to it. #Folklore 🌊🐚👻

Check out the programme for Unquiet Shores here haunted-shores.com/unquiet-shor... You can join us online or in person. Register by 2 June 🌊👻

Unquiet Shores CFP is staying open until Mon 17 February 🌊🎶💃

If you’ve been wanting to send us an abstract but worried about time, good news! We’ve extended the deadline for ‘Unquiet Shores’ until 17 February. Send us your abstracts: haunted-shores.com/unquiet-shor...

We’re pleased to publish Dr Curtis Runstedler’s review of ‘Ocean Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of the World Under the Sea’ by Julia Rothman and John Niekrasz on our blog. Read it here: haunted-shores.com/2025/01/30/o...

We're thrilled to share the CFP for our 2025 hybrid conference, 'Unquiet Shores', in collaboration with @macabredanse.bsky.social 🌊Send us your abstracts on the spooky acoustics of the coast, and please share widely. Details: haunted-shores.com/unquiet-shor...