A weary traveller enters a warm cottage- yet one look at his eyes turns comfort to dread. There’s something not quite human in that “ghastly fair” face…& all are glad when he hides it again. #AScareADay Read Emily Brontë’s ‘And now the house dog stretched once more’ en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Com...

Deep below, the Kraken sleeps 🌊 vast, ancient, and dreaming of the world’s end. Alfred Tennyson’s sea monster still stirs. #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social poets.org/poem/kraken

Today’s #AScareADay, got me reading The Buried Alive by John Galt (1821) ⚰️ A beautiful story about everyone’s worst nightmare- to be conscious while dead. It ends on an electrifying note ⚡️ Read it here: romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/19/t...

Health allowing, I am planning an M. R. James post from 1st December every evening to Christmas Eve. This will include items and artefacts from my own collection, some of them extremely rare #Book #ghosts #DeadDecember 👻📚

“But what we children detested most of all was his big coarse hairy hands…he delighted to touch [our food] until bright tears stood in our eyes.” 🍰💀 Today’s #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Sandman (1816) brings terror to the table, where even sweets turn uncanny.

The Elopement Sometimes you don’t need to get thee to a nunnery because the nuns will try to get to thee…persistently! What a great story for @romgothsam.bsky.social #AScareADay en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Lit...

👻 Thrilled that #AScareADay is back with @romgothsam.bsky.social! Each day we get to creep into a different eerie tale or poem from the challenge list and share our thoughts. 🕷️ October 1st - Robert Herrick, The Hag (1648)

In this bonus episode of Fear Feasts presents @serveitforthfest.bsky.social I share how I found my way into food history and why I’m curious about the foods people make and the meanings behind them. 🍞📖🍇 Listen on all podcast platforms 🎧 #ServeItForthFest podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

Feast yourselves! (darkly, or lightly)

My work on dark food has been published in The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Memory Studies. Very pleased to finally hold a physical copy @panmacmillan.bsky.social It’s a privilege to have my work on dark food included in this volume alongside such excellent scholarship.

The latest issue of Haunted Magazine is here in my witchy hands! I explore ghosts in the theatre – from 18th-c. spirits to 2:22 A Ghost Story @dannyrobins.bsky.social & the return of the actor-ghost 🎭 ✨Plus my interview with @adamzed.bsky.social Don’t miss it! 👉 hauntedmag.com

Loving the Sounds and Senses Panel at Romancing the Gothic's #WarningToTheCurious conference: Kendra Leonard on Sound and Music, Alessandra Pino on Dark Memory and Dark Food, and now Sam Hirst on Listening for Ghosts and Radcliffe's 'Supernatural Explained.' All fantastic.

Adding on for anthros & archaeologists of food looking for humanities work expanding Sidney Mintz’s work that there’s none better that I’ve read/heard than @alessandrapino.bsky.social ‘s work on Dark Memory & Dark Food.

Haunted Magazine #47 is out! I explore how fear is crafted on stage, from high-tech effects to candlelit performances, spotlighting @adamzed.bsky.social’s 10 years of haunting theatre, writing, and online ghost story magic.

👻 Haunted Magazine Issue 47 is here! 🎭 10 years of The Book of Darkness & Light @adamzed.bsky.social 😱 Haunted theatres, cursed books & mirror terrors 🥮 Even malt loaf becomes a superstition… Out Sept 1 👉 Order now: hauntedmag.com

@serveitforthfest.bsky.social is a new online food history festival happening on Saturday 18 October 2025. Early bird tickets are now on sale with 25% off. Be there or be square! #serveitforthfest #foodhistory @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social @neilbuttery.bsky.social @alessandrapino.bsky.social

Check out the @serveitforthfest.bsky.social agenda and grab your early bird tickets!

Talks, ghosts, recipes, and tasty history online from your kitchen.

🎉 Something delicious is coming… I’m @alessandrapino.bsky.social & proud to host the first Serve It Forth: A Food History Festival on 18 Oct 2025 wt @neilbuttery.bsky.social @mrssbilton.bsky.social & @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social 🍽️ Tickets in bio 🎟️@serveitforthfest.bsky.social #ServeItForth 👻📚🥖

Get your tickets!!!

Can’t wait for this!!

I’m thrilled to be part of Serve It Forth: Food History Festival, happening online on 18 October 2025! 🍽️✨ It’s a day full of curiosities and culinary storytelling. 🎟️ Come along! Tickets are available here: www.eventbrite.com/e/serve-it-f...

Serve It Forth is a new festival devoted to food & drink history curated by @alessandrapino.bsky.social @mrssbilton.bsky.social , @neilbuttery.bsky.social @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social

I had the absolute pleasure of joining @mrssbilton.bsky.social on her award-winning Comfortably Hungry podcast to talk all things food & fiction. From subversive cake in Jane Eyre to tangerines in Rebecca, we explore how Gothic novels feed our hunger, desire & dread… Listen if you dare🎧

🌿 B is for Bay Leaves is live! @mrssbilton.bsky.social joins @neilbuttery.bsky.social & @alessandrapino.bsky.social on @aisforapplepod.bsky.social to unpack the misunderstood magic of bay. From stews to sweet puddings, you’ll never look at it the same way again. Got a clever use? Tell us! 🍮✨

Things are heating up at @aisforapplepod.bsky.social ! 🔥 In the latest ep, @neilbuttery.bsky.social dives into B is for Boiling- from bubbling pots to boiling as execution (👀 @alessandrapino.bsky.social couldn’t resist). It’s steamy, strange & seriously delicious #AisForApplePodcast #BoilingPoint

Couldn't stay away from A Gothic Cookbook for long @alessandrapino.bsky.social, so this is red devilled eggs from The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter. The colour is very striking, but if I make them again, the filling will be a better consistency; my piped swirls didn't really make it. You live and learn.

Here we are! I'm doing this off my own bat right now, but I'll rope in more if required 😂 thehistorypress.co.uk

New @aisforapplepod.bsky.social bonus episode out today! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

An excellent turn from Ale @alessandrapino.bsky.social at this morning's session at @horrorstudies.bsky.social Ingestive/culinary horrors!

@alessandrapino.bsky.social - Hugely entertaining, insightful- and ngl - she made me green with envy when she casually talked about discussing raisin tarts...iykyn. Buy her book! You know you want to...brilliant session :) @horrorstudies.bsky.social

I didn't even frighten the horses!* *I may have frightened the horses.

Neon in horror. Neon is the future. @kjudgemental.bsky.social @horrorstudies.bsky.social

@kjudgemental.bsky.social is glowing at @horrorstudies.bsky.social

A brilliant talk by @thatneilmartin.bsky.social on (HOW) CAN WE STUDY HORROR BETTER? #horrornow

Mina's paprika hendl, from the Dracula section of A Gothic Cookbook. Served to Jonathan Harker at the Hôtel Royale on his journey to Castle Dracula. It tastes delicious! Now, onwards to that big castle on the hill, i have some paperwork for the Count to sign...🦇 @alessandrapino.bsky.social

The next ep of @aisforapplepod.bsky.social will be Listeners' Choice so we need your suggestions by 21 May. Foods, drinks, writers, books, food culture...beginning with B. If you can, say a few words about why it would make a good topic. Leave a comment or email [email protected]

Series 2, Episode 6: B is for Beef Wellington, Brains & Bovril This one’s not for the faint-hearted… @mrssbilton.bsky.social unpacks the regal layers of Beef Wellington, @neilbuttery.bsky.social gets into the nitty-gritty of brains as food, & @alessandrapino.bsky.social dives into Bovril.

ICYMI: a new episode of @aisforapplepod.bsky.social landed with the theme "BLUE". A tricky one! What did @alessandrapino.bsky.social , @mrssbilton.bsky.social and I choose? What would you have chosen? Available on all podcast platforms inc this one: open.spotify.com/episode/1ifa...

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Have you caught up with the latest @aisforapplepod.bsky.social episode? B is for Blue & it was a tricky one! @neilbuttery.bsky.social talked with Joe Schneider of Stichelton Dairy @alessandrapino.bsky.social looked at blue corn @mrssbilton.bsky.social focused on borage Available on all apps🎧

Absolutely loved recording with @neilbuttery.bsky.social & chatting about ‘Monsters & their Meals’ 🩸 Check out the video 👀

Back from an amazing time in York for the Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions! A beautiful day filled with fascinating talks, plus a fun ghost walk the night before and a visit to the Castle Museum and historic prison. #York #FoodHistory #LeedsSymposium#GhostWalk #CulinaryHistory

My latest for @nighttidemag.bsky.social is live! Pretty proud of this one as I actually reached out to directors for quotes and it came together really well! Check it out! #GastroHorror #HorrorSky #FilmSky