Very excited to be a part of this amazing issue with such fantastic scholars! I discuss the similarities of Jackson and Stephen King’s folkloric characters, the Daemon Lover and the Man in Black, and how they contribute to a neo-folklore for New England 👻

CFP Alert: “Mothers, Mothering, Horror and Terror in Television, Film, and Literature” The editors are looking for 2 or 3 contributions that address black, Chicanx/Latinx and/or migrant/migrating/borderland mother/hoods within the volumes’s theme of horror and/or terror. #SSAG #CFP

Very excited to receive my contributor copy of Entering the Multiverse this morning (also the first physical copy of my published work I’ve ever held!!) - thanks to @pbooth81.bsky.social for all his hard work and support as editor!

Exciting mail today - this makes it official! 🎉

Pssssst! 🦇💀👻😈🧟‍♀️🧛‍♂️🎃 The @gothicstudies.bsky.social / International Gothic Association Early-Career Essay Prize 2024-25 is open to submissions! Deadline is 1st March 2025 More details at 👇👇👇 www.globalgoth.org/blog/the-int...

An exciting start to the week! I just signed and returned my contract to Lexington Press for my first book "The Eight Archetypes of the Double in Culture and Literature"! Now I just have to write it...

There’s still time to get tickets for the ‘Collins and Dickens’ conference held at the University of Buckingham! We have an amazing range of speakers, an exhibition and a staged reading of ‘No Thoroughfare’ - come along and join us (student prices available too!) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collins-an...

I’ve officially joined Bluesky, so it’s a good time to introduce myself. I’m currently researching into the female double across literature from nineteenth century to modern day and how they subvert the common archetypes