my story 'Descartes' Daughter' (about an automaton owned by the philosopher and thrown overboard by a ship's captain on suspicion of witchcraft) is available in the first anthology by Wandering Words Media: www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0GC...

now up on @thecollectorx.bsky.social , a sally through Wordsworth's life and works: www.thecollector.com/william-word...

wrote about realism in my most recently published piece on @thecollectorx.bsky.social : www.thecollector.com/victorian-re...

wrote about some of my favourite Austen bangers for @thecollectorx.bsky.social : www.thecollector.com/jane-austen-...

Lamp Lit Issue 1.2 is out, featuring a short story I wrote called 'Pierrot disparu'! lamplit.net/q-issue-numb...

🛋️ Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall 2025 is Live at LampLit.net! 🛋️ Thank you to Lamp Lit 1.2 Contributors: ⬇️ #poetry #shortstories #art #essay #litmags #lamplitmag

my latest for @thecollectorx.bsky.social : www.thecollector.com/grand-tour-e...

🛋️Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall '25 Cover and Contributor Reveal! Cover art by Mirjana M. @ cyanide_cherries on insta Our sophomore issue will be released to Lamplit.net on Thursday, November 13th! 🛋️ #coverreaveal #poetry #shortstories #art #essay #litmags #lamplitmag 1/4

also new on @thecollectorx.bsky.social, my article on the enigmatic Ludwig II of Bavaria: www.thecollector.com/ludwig-ii-fa...

latest by me for @thecollectorx.bsky.social on some seasonal spooky reads: www.thecollector.com/defining-wor...

my story 'Friends of Dorothy' has just been published in The Literary Hatchet magazine! It's about Oscar Wilde's niece Dolly, wit, Paris, fur coats, etc etc, you get the gist: lizzieandrewborden.com/literaryhatc...

my latest for @thecollectorx.bsky.social www.thecollector.com/catherine-ar...

you can read my story 'The Mylar Chamber' in volume 8 of Tales of the Unreal, out now! It is based on a true story: poet Ira Cohen's inadvertent discovery of the photographic technique he used to create his Mylar images. unrealpress.substack.com/api/v1/file/8db65c28-735d-4244-8748-cf02302a50a1.pdf

you can read my story 'The Mylar Chamber' in volume 8 of Tales of the Unreal, out now! It is based on a true story: poet Ira Cohen's inadvertent discovery of the photographic technique he used to create his Mylar images. unrealpress.substack.com/api/v1/file/8db65c28-735d-4244-8748-cf02302a50a1.pdf

moonlighting as a historian in my latest for @thecollectorx.bsky.social : www.thecollector.com/henry-viii-r...

my latest for @thecollectorx.bsky.social : www.thecollector.com/richard-wagn...

my first published article for @thecollectorx.bsky.social is about one of my favourite subjects: www.thecollector.com/uncanny-sigm...

as an eerily well-timed sequel to my recent talk on The Doors, my story 'Morrison Motel' has just been published - it's about untoward goings-on at the Alta Cienega motel, where Jim Morrison lived while recording multiple Doors albums: exquisitedeathezine.com/morrison-hotel

my story 'The Baptism of the Petit Comte' has just been published in The Literary Fantasy Magazine - archive.thearcanist.net/posts/2507ba...

of limited interest to many but me, but a) why is there a discogs entry for Stenbock's 'True Story of a Vampire' and b) why does it depict Tadzio from Death In Venice running away from the vampire?

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great news! my talk on 'The Gothic and The Doors' is on youtube, for all and sundry to enjoy my dulcet tones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVir...

If you missed this week's talk on The Gothic and The Doors, you can find it here! youtu.be/uVirA1joteA

update: the talk now has an accompanying playlist (i may or may not have got carried away adding goth songs not actually referenced in the talk) open.spotify.com/playlist/0Y7...

tomorrow! 10am and 7pm on zoom (and subsequently on youtube in perpetuity): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-gothic...

out today: 'Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences: Popular Music Autobiographies', ed. Tom Attah, @profkirsty.bsky.social, & Christian Lloyd. featuring my chapter on Lady Gaga as pop's greatest Wildean since Bowie - 'Lady Gaga's Wildean Self-Representations'! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rereading...

much like the adage about waiting for a bus, two of my stories have come along at once this week- 'Corvo's John', now available to read on House of Long Shadows, is based on the mysterious, beguiling, inscrutable literary enigma that was Baron Corvo: houseoflongshadows.substack.com/p/hls-no-19-...

my story 'Swan Song' is out now on @fictionontheweb! it is a fictionalised retelling of expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka's commissioning of a life-sized doll of his former lover, Alma Mahler. you can read it here: www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/2025/05/swan...

without giving too much away, i would like to announce that a talk I'm doing this summer includes this slide which I regard as the pinnacle of my academic work thus far