I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

One more week to submit!

A little snippet of what we get up to on tiktok. Here is ep 1 of our Pop Girlies and the Monstrous Feminine - Sabrina Carpenter

I'm doing a talk in Bath! Come and join me at Komedia on the 4th November 2025 for a whistlestop tour of women in the Gothic across four delirious centuries! It will be fast, furious, and hair raising! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gothic-fic...

WHY I LOVE HORROR: Essays on Horror Literature by @raforall.bsky.social Becky Spratford is out today! This book will stand the test of time as the eternal response to the question of why we love horror. A special gift. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ it deserves all the awards! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Rescued the Northanger Abbey "horrid novels" from the basement of the uni library and my mission is to read them all during my sabbatical...might start with a short one 🤣

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

Hey, @natewolff.bsky.social - I guess they ARE fish…! “Now the Lord had prepared a great FISH to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the FISH three days and three nights.” -Jonah 1:17

I want to be clear about what I'm saying here. I'm not denying the danger. I'm not denying the threat. I AM saying that we live in a geographically huge country where the vast majority oppose this administration. They don't have the power to work on that scale. Tho they want us to believe they do

The next round of the Best Gothic Novel Ever competition is here! 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson Vs 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde Vote in the comments!

Check out the new Open Graves, Open Minds Project page on @manchesterup.bsky.social Gothic MUP site. It gives an overview of the project, our publications & our forthcoming book on Gothic Fairies @hertsresearch.bsky.social ttps://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/the-open-graves-open-minds-project/

“Keeper of the Flame” (1942) - Tracy/Hepburn film out of circulation for years, but it has suddenly popped up on HBO/Max. I rewatched it for the first time in decades; wow - oddly prescient. Consider this my political post for September. youtu.be/K2gKSP3yBOA?...

A reminder that you can come study the Gothic online with me via the University of Liverpool in October! Join us for the princely sum of £150 (£80 concessions) for a 10 week course with weekly classes, library access, and oodles of resources! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

My n my mutuals hanging out on my bsky page.

Even more interesting once you start noticing the patterns

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Come join us and spread the word, please! (Feel free to share with your networks elsewhere too!)

As always, the answer is Dracula.

Heads up, English Literature types. The newly formed School of English at MMU is looking to appoint a new Head of School, ideally someone who already holds a professorial Chair. Further details here: manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

I've put up the new call for papers for the 2026 Romancing the Gothic programme! Come join us! (I welcome feedback) romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...

Bay of Biscay sunset

It's decorative gourd season motherfuckers!!

Part of a scene in the Spreuer Bridge, Lucerne, Switzerland, a medieval covered bridge which had 67 scenes from the Danse Macabre painted in its rafters between 1626 and 1635. This would show travellers that death comes for everyone.

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September

We are excited to reveal that Sea Changes @britishlibrary is full to capacity re: in person tickets. Those still wanting to join us can attend online on Saturday for talks, flash fiction & keynotes (Scottish mermaids & Selkie fictions) #GothicMermaids Online ticket option below

Strayed across this. Didn’t realise there was a summer special. What a treat! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I feel like this job (horror scholarship!) would be a great fit for a load of people I know or that follow me on here! Pass it on! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM520/r...

Sitting in the front row of the Aimee Mann concert (Skyline Stage, Navy Pier, Chicago) in 2002 or 2003; she was promoting her “Lost in Space” album, and afterwards asked for encore requests. Most shouted old song titles - but I loudly (stage voice) shouted “It’s Not,” and that’s what they played.

The Best Gothic Novel Ever competition continues! 'Our Wives Under the Sea' - Julia Armfield Vs 'Beloved' - Toni Morrison Vote in the comments! #LGGbestgothicnovel

What's your favorite folk horror movie from the US? Doesn't have to be one that's fully in the genre; could be a film with some folk horror themes or elements.

This. Thread.

You can now view the brackets for the past 'Best Gothic ... Ever' competitions at your leisure. Have a topic in mind for future competitions? Let us know! 👻👻👻 lincolngothicgroup.wordpress.com/best-gothic-...

“I am living through authoritarianism for the first time like so many of you, and I got a lot of things wrong. I am trying to do better. I didn’t know normal sits right alongside the abnormal.”

Crossroads is seeking article proposals and art samples for our first issue! Theme: The 1970s Deadline: October 1, 2025 Who: US-based writers and artists What: Well-researched but approachable non-fiction about US folklore, pop culture, and history with connections to folk horror themes

As a child, my parents subjected me to slide-show “travelogues” typically presented in high school auditoriums by well-meaning travelers. I vaguely remember one on St. Augustine, Florida. @raynewman.bsky.social’s periodic photo threads have a similar flavor, but far more interesting and artistic.

“Have YOU had ‘the talk’ with your child?” 🧵

On this day in 1957, Hammer’s gripping and often overlooked The Abominable Snowman was released 🖤

IN THE COMPANY OF #WOLVES explores the representation of the #wolf in fairy tales & gothic texts through a collection of essays. It includes the research I did over many years into the myth of wolf children or children raised by wolves & the literature associated with them #FairyTaleTuesday

It me! I'll be doing a panel about the @blpublishing.bsky.social Tales of the Weird series with Zara-Louise Stubbs, editor of 'The Uncanny Gastronomic', at Nottingham Waterstone's on Halloween 🖤 Especially fun as I used to work at this branch, many moons ago...

In other news, one of the greatest albums of the Noughties gets curiously unheralded vinyl reissue.

Share some of the best eyes in movies. I KNOW I’m banging the same drum over and over, but this is a hill I’ll die on.

If you liked yesterday's connection between Robert Downey Sr. and LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH, I have another one for ya:

Forget spooky decorations in retail outlets. This is the true sign that the Halloween season is upon us. youtu.be/03iBgkXb1EE?...

Sartre’s “No Exit” multiverse.

I’ll delete my answer, but I’m disappointed people haven’t gotten this yet. (I’m sure @janiceflux.bsky.social and @irishgothichorror.bsky.social know this one. And if they don’t…they will).

Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (2009).

Call for Proposals and Art Samples! Our first issue is focused on US folk horror in the 1970s. Below you will find a list of topics we'd love to see tackled, but feel free to pitch your own if you have ideas. For topics related to marginalized cultures, we will only consider Own Voices.

Please consider submitting a proposal. The deadline is October 1st.

A photo you took that brings you inner peace. My youngest, probably around 2009.