Get the MONOLITHS bundle featuring A YEAR IN A FIELD with a set of 4 ceramic standing stone coasters, designed by Sight Study Art & Design with pics taken by @kierlajanisse.bsky.social ! Limited edition and exclusively available at @severinfilms.bsky.social here: severinfilms.com/en-ca/collec...

My first blu ray release! Watch the trailer for all the disc specs, extras, packaging and perks for the brilliant "A YEAR IN A FIELD" - then order the disc from our distribution partners @severinfilms.bsky.social or in Canada from spectacularoptical.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjBb...

In case you missed them, I wrote some books

These movies are SO FUN - I worked on the packaging with Luke Insect and chose all the stills for the back covers, also went down a rabbit hole looking up all the music

JOB: early modern global history jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Turns out that my new book is out. It's about this docudrama's skilful techniques, its re-enactments of Doctor Who scenes, paratexts (such as trails and idents), historiography and school teaching of history in the 1960s... and it celebrates Hartnell's Doctor and Who's ambitious early years.

GET OUUUUUUT. "Horror House Film" explores the malevolent homes of literature and cinema, from the old 'n dark to the Usher to the Amityville. Released today from @livunipress.bsky.social and author Evert Jan van Leeuwen. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Three days to go till our FREE Folk Horror show at Whitby! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will be onstage at 9pm - see you there!

The blogpost which fell to earth: the story of a great film poster (and find out the secret link between Bowie and Iron Maiden) www.bfi.org.uk/inside-the-a...

Omg, this is so cool. I <3<3 watching fencing but it can be a *smidgen* hard to follow in the epee especially.

And for those wanting to really dig in, those books would be @tobyhadoke.bsky.social’s The Quatermass Experiment (@tenacrebooks.bsky.social) tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/the-... & @drdjohnston.bsky.social’s Nigel Kneale & Horror www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Here's @spectacularoptical.bsky.social founder @kierlajanisse.bsky.social talking a bit about why the label branched out into film distribution and more about the films chosen to kick off the initiative, including a very special partnership with @severinfilms.bsky.social !

*Very* excited that vol.1 of New Directions in the Ghost Story, edited by myself, @henrybartholomew.bsky.social & @joanpassey.bsky.social is out! Well done to all the contributors, and thanks for bearing with us! :) Please recommend to your academic libraries! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

A piece on Gandalf’s fireworks, long in the making. Look out for linguistic puzzles, contemporary materialities, and biographical resonances. Warning: contains highly explosive materials! 🧨 dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/the-slow-l... @uofgfantasy.bsky.social @tolkiensociety.org

Today is UK publication day for STORIES OF THE STONES!

Sunrise this morning in Glastonbury. Like heaven on earth.

Very excited to tuck into these excellent new collections in the International Gothic @manchesterup.bsky.social series! #gothic #gothicstudies

A YEAR IN A FIELD - now streaming on-demand on Youtube Premium (US & Canada) and Amazon Prime, Hoopla and Google Play (US), with more to come! Also screening on the BIG screen tonight at the Roxy Theatre in Saskatoon for Earth Day! Get in touch if you'd like to book it for your cinema or film club!

Reaktion Books is seeking an Editor to work 3-4 days per week. Find out more: buff.ly/ABNDwFe

It's another BFI blog, this time on a Lean theme... www.bfi.org.uk/inside-the-a...

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!

From Bookshop.org; the eBook of The Authentic William James, 2.99

If you'll be near Sheffield on 18th June, check out this free lecture and film screening hosted by @radcliffecup.bsky.social! Tickets and more info on their Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-w...

For anyone with outstanding Audible credits (cough, hint)

Did you miss yesterday's fab talk on bodily transformation and horror in British and Irish traditional songs? Watch it here! youtu.be/Yfw6wvTFvLI

We’re busy planning series two of our podcast, Folklore Matters, but @dianearodgers.bsky.social and Sophie found some time to do a quick ‘best bits’ of series one. You can listen here: folklore-matters.captivate.fm/episode/seri...

Today at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social in Calgary 4:00pm co-presented by Calgary Underground FF! I'll be talking about our Robert Downey Sr. book w/ some clips + reading from my book COCKFIGHT. The store will have these and other books in stock, like SATANIC PANIC, HOPW + YULETIDE TERROR!

Have you got your free tickets for this week's online talk yet? (Donations welcome!)

I never thought the first film I ever release on my own label would be a documentary about a rock. But that should tell you something about how good it is.

Did you miss this weekend's talk on Well Folklore and horror? Worry not, here it is! youtu.be/LPxeK2DAAXQ

For anyone wanting to get in to film/TV, I’ve put together a series of lunchtime talks from Wednesday to Sunday next week on directing, design, composing, producing & locations with fantastic guests. Free for under 25s. Do share! Part of From Page to Screen festival. @bridportarts.bsky.social

Made another little animation to lure poor innocent people to my articles 😉 If you want to know more, read my article here; fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/02/02/d... Or here; fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/drinking-w...

The new episode of Telefantasy Time Jump is out now, free wherever you get your podcasts. It's 1968, and @lizbethmyles.bsky.social and I are watching ITC's superspy show The Champions! www.patreon.com/posts/telefa...

SPECTACULAR OPTICAL LAUNCHES FILM DISTRIBUTION BRANCH - First Slate of Titles Includes new restorations of Waris Hussein’s MELODY (1971), Bert Deling’s PURE SHIT (1975) and Andrew Horn’s DOOMED LOVE (1984), plus BAFTA Award Winning Documentarian Christopher Morris’ A YEAR IN A FIELD (2023) and more

The Jeremy Brett-starring Sherlock Holmes series is now being uploaded to ITV's Drama YouTube channel #SherlockHolmes www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWd0...

Our co-designed Career Boost Programme @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social supports students who are neurodivergent, have additional learning needs / health conditions, have caring responsibilities, or are seeking to change career direction, to develop employability skills. www.qub.ac.uk/sites/StaffG...

A non-academic related thing - last month I published a collection of short stories. They're a mix of speculative and contemporary fiction, and if you know anyone who is interested, send them here: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GTSG9B6...

We are open for applications to the MA Victorian Gothic: History, Literature and Culture for Sept 2026. Tutors include @c19thceleb.bsky.social @christopherpittard.bsky.social @bradbeaven.bsky.social @karlbell.bsky.social For info on our distance learning course see 👇 www.port.ac.uk/study/course...

Fancy joining me and @bobfischer.bsky.social in Colchester on Friday 30 July? The Scarred For Life Folk Horror show is coming, and there'll be ancient rituals and cursed eyebrows...

I'll be in Calgary next week for the Calgary Underground Film Festival and while I'm there I'm doing a reading + signing at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social to plug my two most recent books TRUTH & SOUL and COCKFIGHT (although I'll sign whatever you have!) spectacularoptical.com/events/kier-...

I'm running some more interactive workshops next week. We'll exploring the difficulties and possibilities of constructing queer histories and looking at early queer writing by Byron. Come join us! www.eventbrite.com/cc/byron-que...

Fingers crossed (and if enough people sign up) I should be running two separate romance fiction courses at the University of Liverpool in Continuing Education next year and like... what a dream come true!

New @severinfilms.bsky.social video series of genre celebs taking you through the cinemas of their lives: youtu.be/JRJO7pAF6J4?...

*Three Year Post-Doc opportunity*: 'The Horror of Place-Based Harms’ Details here: tinyurl.com/5cfr8xnb Deadline: 05/07/2026, 11:59 PM #horrorNU

The Hammer Horror Omnibus. Out of print for decades, for release in January 2027 and available for preorder, prose adaptations that warped a generation. Volumes 1 and 2 with intros by me and Stephen Laws; afterwords from Ramsey Campbell and Stephen Volk. Cover art by - who else - Graham Humphreys

Very pleased to tell you that I will be appearing in human form as part of the Fiends In The Furrows folk horror film festival panel discussion, here in Edinburgh. I’ll be joined by the illustrious Drs Catherine Lester and Jonny Murray with host Morvern Cunningham. Full programme and tix linked 👇

11th April at 10am and 7pm BST we're joined by Scarlette-Electra LeBlanc to talk weird wells! Eerie Tales of Wells and Springs: Changelings, Creatures, and Curses! 10 - buytickets.at/romancingthe... 7 - buytickets.at/romancingthe...