In October, the upcoming PGR-led conference, Dark Enchantments: Gothic Folklore and the Monstrous Fairy-Tale, will be held at the University of Sheffield. Interested in getting involved? Follow the QR code and send us your abstracts by the end of July! 🦇👻
(Risen from the🪦 with a new QR code).
See, a proper book, (little book, but a proper one) with an ISBN number and everything. Cover reveal and ordering details coming soon-ish. And yes, there is an-anti piracy, anti LLM curse embedded in the text. It is Hookland – you'd expect nothing less.
Dr Evelyn Koch
‘Fear is my name, and I am Death’s messenger and the reminder of Death; and I have come before him to warn you of his coming.’
Killer description of Hell in this!
A heads-up that my online talk on the Cranford adaptations on Wednesday is the start of a #Cranford summer season of online @eilzabethgaskellsh.bsky.social talks. More info 👇
It's a good day when you get to bust out a sentence like this. #18C
Making a rare appearance on here to ask for thoughts on an embroidery from 1668. Do you have any idea what Old Testament story/stories these panels represent? Previously labeled as Abraham and Isaac but I’m not convinced. I think they may be the same figures in both. Thank you for your ideas!
Ellesse Patterson 🐝
Simon Davies
Isabella Rosner
Chris Louttit
Dr Adam James Smith
In a world that moves too fast, pour a cup of tea and enjoy our new summer online talks on #Cranford
👒 Cranford – A TV Classic | 3 June @drchrislouttit.bsky.social
🌺 Step into the Garden: Language of Flowers | 17 June
☕ Cranford for Beginners | 24 June
elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/welcome-to-t...
I am after your top children's (/family) British Folk Horror / Folk Gothic / Just Bloody Weird and Unsettling for Kids.
Preferably books ir audio drama over film/tv series. E.g. Dark Is Rising, The Owl Service etc
rād-wērig, adj: weary with riding or journeying. (RAWD-WAY-rih / ˈraːd-ˌweː-rɪj)
Image: Arthurian romances; France, 1290-1300; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Beinecke MS 229, f. 233r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Savage House’s filth and farce are closer to the real bawdiness of the 18th century
theconversation.com/savage-house... #18C #SavageHouse
The Complete Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. Coming this Autumn from @selfmadehero.bsky.social
www.moorereppion.com/complete-gho...
Elizabeth Gaskell's House
Dirt, sex and faeces abound in 18-century ilterature.
theconversation.com
From selfmadehero.com/news : Ghost Stories of an Antiquary: The Compendium, adapted byLeah Moore and John Reppion, illustrated byAneke, Kit Buss, Al Davison, Meghan Hetrick, George Kambadais, Abigail ...
🐺📚 Now available as a pdf!
Translating The Witcher: Publishing Fantasy Fiction in Europe @universitypress.cambridge.org
Download it before June 15!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - Translating <i>The Witcher</i>
NEW TOLKIEN JUST OUT: delighted to see “JRR #Tolkien’s Soul’s Ward: A critical edition of his unpublished translation of the early Middle English homily Sawles Warde” edited by Andoni Cossio and Nelson Goering: academic.oup.com/res/advance-...
Chuffed to have played a minor role in this 1/3
