Violet Hunt and her amazing cat. #caturday

📚 Now available! 📚 THE TIGER SKIN AND OTHER TALES OF THE UNEASY, published by @blpublishing.bsky.social I’ve wanted to bring Violet Hunt’s supernatural fiction back for a while now, so am happy to see these stories reach a wide audience again. Please share!

From ancient mystery rituals to Renaissance magic and folk practices, seekers have long regarded mirrors as a portal to communicate with spirits or to catch a glimpse of the future. 🪞✨Pre-orders for The Mirror Issue are now open worldwide on helleborezine.com

Heads up @igagoths.bsky.social - delighted to announce the CFP for IGA 2026: 'Gothic Selves/Artificial Others' hosted at the University of Hull 28-31 July! hullgothic.wordpress.com

Violet Hunt is out in the world! And look at those extra goodies that accompany the book. 💛👻📚

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Violet Hunt is here! Many thanks to @blpublishing.bsky.social for the lovely complimentary copies. THE TIGER SKIN AND OTHER TALES OF THE UNEASY will be published later this month.

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“…my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee…” @profdanielcook.bsky.social examines why Scotland mattered so much to Mary Shelley, & considers Shelley’s position in the Scottish Gothic tradition #FrankensteinDay #Frankenstein www.nls.uk/papercut/mar...

Violet will be here soon! And I share the love for that frontispiece. 🖤

My contributor’s copy just arrived! 👻

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Welcome to #MLfest2025! The day on which I celebrate the life and work of Margery Lawrence, born #OTD in 1889. Gothic queen. Lifelong Spiritualist. Superb writer of supernatural fiction. 🧵

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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "The Hall Bedroom" (1905) tells of a mysterious room in a boarding house. Within the room is a smaller, hidden room that may lead to another dimension. #WyrdWednesday wilkinsfreeman.info/Short/HallBe...

New on our bookshelf: Thrills Untapped 2: More Discoveries for Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Movie Fans, 1928–1936 By Michael R. Pitts mcfarlandbooks.com/product/Thri...

Contributor’s copy has arrived for The Weird: A Companion.

Simone and the clam shell #caturday

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New on our bookshelf: American Women Writers of the 19th Century: A Literary Companion By Heidi M. Hanrahan mcfarlandbooks.com/product/Amer...

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I often teach Pauline Hopkins’s work. Her novels have recently been republished by @broadviewpress.bsky.social so hopefully they will reach even wider audiences. She also wrote a ghost story!

Signs of Spring at the stone circle. 🌼 🪨

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A Friday #shelfie of some new arrivals, including Rhoda!

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The latest entry in the British Library Tales Of The Weird series joins the library, this time a novella by Marjorie Bowen - whose ‘Bishop Of Hell’ appeared in Queens of the Abyss - here writing as Robert Paye, one of her many pseudonyms. #TalesOfTheWeird #Weird #Fiction #BritishLibrary

First of 3 Call for Proposals for an in-person session at MLA 2026 in Toronto. This is a Gothic Studies forum session, although not our guaranteed session, and participants need to be MLA members by April. Minority-Language Sustainability and the Folk Gothic mla.confex.com/mla/2026/web...

Simone and her Valentine’s Day carrot. #caturday

What a great cover! I have a chapter in this so can’t wait to get a copy. 👻📚

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...

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New arrival! Emma Frances Dawson’s An Itinerant House and Other Stories (1897).

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A supernatural shelfie because I love weird books and so do you:) Post your own wonderful shelfies!:)

The Cush gears up for his second turn as Van Helsing in Hammer’s The Brides to Dracula, which began principal photography on this day in 1960 🖤

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New $2.99 Kindle deals are up worldwide! WORLD HORROR STORIES volume 2 contains great horror stories from around the world, translated to English for the first time, and Michael Talbot's THE BOG is a fun '80s horror read that Paperbacks from Hell fans will love. On sale through 1/31.

TAAQTUMI (2019) is a collection of stories from Indigenous writers incorporating traditional Inuit legends, including Thomas Anguti Johnston’s “Revenge” which features the Nanurluk, a giant polar bear. #BookWormSat

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Some Margery Lawrence for a Friday #shelfie

Simone and the snowball. #caturday

Some classic ghost story collections for a Friday #shelfie

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New arrival! Alice Brown’s The Flying Teuton (1918) in its rare dust jacket. The title story reimagines the tale of the Flying Dutchman in a WWI setting. This collection also includes the fantasy/horror story “The Empire of Death” and the ghost story “The Tryst.”

Happy Hogmanay from the team at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies! 🎆 Wherever you are we are sure you will be singing Auld Lang Syne along with us tonight. Visit our blog to read about the origins of the iconic Scottish anthem: www.gla.ac.uk/news/archive... #hogmanay #auldlangsyne

A full day of online Gothic-themed events, all for a good cause.