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Dave Jeffery @davebjeffery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

13th October…

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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New blog post now up! Read on for some thoughts on Anna Bogutskaya's emotion-led portrait of post-2014 horror. horror.glasgow.ac.uk/review-feedi... @drgavinmiller.bsky.social

Book cover with a dark background and the title 'Feeding the Monster' in large red font. The font is stylised so that it looks like blood is dripping from it and there are silhouettes of flies surrounding in. Below this there are endorsements in white text that read, 'A worthy successor to Stephen King's Danse Macabre.' (Esquire) and 'Timely and deeply empathetic' (Observer). At the bottom, the book's subtitle 'Why horror has a hold on us?' is in white text with the author name 'Anna Bogutskaya' in red below.

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Dave Jeffery @davebjeffery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My contributor copy of Still Floating: 40 Years of Pennywise (edited by Tom Deady) has arrived, and it looks gorgeous. Art: Francois Vaillancourt Released worldwide on 15th September 2026. Have a great day, everyone xxx

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So here we go then: the result of many years thinking about how dinosaurs make science and the imagination work together. It's written for both literary critics and scientists and my dearest hope is that it will help foster an academy where we talk to each other more

Photo of a copy of 'The Social Dinosaur', out now from Bloomsbury omg

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Christine Ferguson @cferguson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My edition of Conan Doyle's The Land of Mist and Other Spiritualist Writings is now available for pre-order with a 30% discount! Thanks to @edinburghup.bsky.social and Douglas Kerr, @theprofrog.bsky.social, @jamesmachin.bsky.social, and @profdarryljones.bsky.social for their guidance in the project!

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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My new minigraph Penguins on the Couch Penguin Books and the Psychologization of Britain, c.1945–c.1980 is FREE TO DOWNLOAD until 25 August www.cambridge.org/core/element... My thanks to @britishacademy.bsky.social for the Small Grant and @bristolunilib.bsky.social for Penguin Archive access

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Penguins on the Couch

Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - Penguins on the Couch

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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

New blog post on Jack Clayton's beautiful and disturbing adaptation of The Turn of the Screw, The Innocents. Read on for reflections on how the film fits in with the broader psychologisation of British Horror in the 60s 👻 @drgavinmiller.bsky.social horror.glasgow.ac.uk/the-innocent...

A screenshot of film titles for The Innocents. The image is black and white, mainly dark with hands clasped in prayer faintly visible to the left. The words, The Innocents are in italicised font across the image.

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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Great to see my UFOs at Newhailes House project now in situ, and running from 20 July to 20 August. @dmcmenemy.bsky.social @davidwclarke.bsky.social @gegh.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk more on Facebook www.facebook.com/NTSNewhailes...

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Max Long @maxlong.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🚨📘 Book Alert! 📘🚨 My first monograph, 'A Science for Everyday Life' is now available for pre-order! Published by @upittpress.bsky.social & released mid-December 2026. US/North America: upittpress.org/books/978082... UK/Europe: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Book cover for 'A Science for Everyday Life: Mass media, natural history and the environment in Britain, 1900-1945'. Image on the cover shows a class of children watching a film about a frog.

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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Picked up today 3 roller banners for display at NTS Newhailes House, near Musselburgh. The banners explain the property's connection to Scottish UFO history - and there's a UFO hunt in the grounds. We expect to be running from around 20 July for about a month. @glasgow.ac.uk

A roller banner headed 'UFOs at Newhailes House. 1. The tattie howkers' sighting.' The rest of the roller banner has images and text explaining the property's connection to UFOs.

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Oliver K. Langmead @oliverklangmead.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

COVER REVEAL! OUR GLORIOUS PROGENY An anthology of reproductive futures, coming March 2027 from @lunapress.bsky.social Featuring 12 short stories from:

The cover of OUR GLORIOUS PROGENY, edited by Oliver K. Langmead and Anna McFarlane

The cover features an image of plastic babies contained in a gumball machine

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 20/06/2026

New review at C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings / @c21literature.bsky.social: “Review Essay: Capitalism, Exceptionalist Nationalism, and Alternative Communities in Contemporary Fiction” by Yian Zhu: doi.org/10.16995/c21...

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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The cryptic (cryptid) connection between Loch Ness and Scottish UFOs is so often overlooked. Saucers in the air over the Loch. Men in Black roaming the shores. And Nessie herself -- was she just a leftover dinosaur, or was she an interdimensional trickster entity?

An A4 image. In the left half a monochrome flying saucer passes above Loch Ness while Nessie looks up and exclaims 'Jings, crivens, help ma boab!'. In the right half, text explains that in 1974, a Loch Ness monster investigator, Frank Searle, photographed a flying saucer moving at 'the speed of a jet' over the loch. However, many people believed Searle was a hoaxer, since the saucer looked a lot like a ladies' hat thrown in the air. Searle later claimed to have seen two baby Loch Ness monsters playing in a stream at the edge of the loch ... but they swam away before he could catch one. The text references the Daily Record newspaper, 2 December 1974.

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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I bet Foucault didn't spend his afternoon drawing Scottish flying saucers on A4 paper. Your loss, Michel.

An A4 sheet. In the left hand is the image of a circular object against a background of stars in the night sky. On the right, text explains that in 1954, eighty-two-year-old Mrs Mary Wilde of Dundee looked out of her window and saw a circular 'moon-shaped' UFO gliding high above the River Tay. It was two o'clock in the morning, and Mrs Wilde had heard a jet plane fly past about 10 minutes before. Other people in the area saw the object as well. The Air Ministry said it was a weather balloon launched from RAF Leuchars airbase in Fife. The story comes from the Dundee Courier, 27th October 1954.

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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Great to see this volume getting the recognition it deserves. @mutualfascination.bsky.social

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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Our new issue—13.1 (Summer 2026)—has just opened! Featuring Tommaso Villa on the contemporary sports novel, Frankie Hines on waste and _White Teeth_, and review essays by Yian Zhu and Mortada Haidar c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1941/i...

Cover depicting an aerial photograph of a crossroad in Mexico for Vol 13, No. 1 (Summer 2026) of C21 Literature

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 29/05/2026

Read @c21literature.bsky.social special issue “The Century at 25”, guest edited by Denise Wong, Arin Keeble, alice and Dr. Melissa Schuh: c21.openlibhums.org/...

Cover poster for the C21 Literature: Journal of 21st Century Writings Volume 12 Issue 3 2025-26 special issue: The Century at 25.

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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

For anyone in Dundee on the evening of Thur 28 May, I'll be speaking on 'UFOs in Scotland' in the Central Library at 6pm - tickets free via Eventbrite. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ufos-in-sc...

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UFOs in Scotland: A Down-to-Earth History

Did you know? Scotland has a long and surprising history with flying saucers and UFOs, stretching back to the early 1950s.

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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

✍️ Looking to get your academic work published? Earlier this month, one of our Commissioning Editors @emilysharp.bsky.social joined a panel of fellow industry experts sharing tips on finding a publisher, writing proposals and more!

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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Find our British Horror and Psychologization project here in the Leverhulme 2025 Annual Review. We're 'revolting reading for slime observants' p.60 ... @mutualfascination.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk @uofgartshums.bsky.social

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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Great reflections here on the little known 70s Brit horror, Killer's Moon

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 06/05/2026

Narratives of Illness & Dis/ability in Scottish Literature I Holly Faith Nelson & Graham Morgan 15 May, free online This @iassl.bsky.social webinar series encourages critical engagement with narratives of illness & dis/ability in Scottish literature & culture scotlit-iassl.org/2026/04/27/n...

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Narratives of Illness and Dis/ability in Scottish Literature I: Holly Faith Nelson & Graham Morgan

The Dis/ability and Scottish Studies Working Group has formed to encourage critical engagement with narratives of illness and dis/ability in cross-period Scottish literature and culture. It aims to…

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Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Horror and Disability: Representations of Disability in Twenty-First-Century Film and Television, by Darren Gray, is scheduled for publication this September. It will be volume #28 in the Horror Studies book series at @uniwalespress.bsky.social. #horror #horrorstudies www.uwp.co.uk/book/horror-...

Cover of Horror and Disability: An abstract picture with criss-crossing colour lines.

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Kevin Wood @theautistichaddock.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I really enjoyed it. My friend @apstrange.bsky.social put me onto it. There's a rich history of UFO encounters in Scotland. These accounts should be preserved for cultural and historical purposes. There's so many other people in different countries doing similar things.

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Kevin Wood @theautistichaddock.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Well worth checking out if you're into Scottish ufology.

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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I really enjoyed this recording this podcast episode on Scottish UFOs: the host, Rick Palmer, had lots of thoughtful questions for me, and he also has a great backlist of previous conversations with academics studying paranormal culture @davidwclarke.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The new 'Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray and the Arts' @edinburghup.bsky.social, edited by Marie Hedon, Camille Manfredi, and Kirsten Stirling, is now available for pre-order!

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The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray and the Arts

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Some Other Sphere Podcast @sphericalpod.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Episode 149 is out this week! My guest is @drgavinmiller.bsky.social who joined me to talk about his research on the history of UFOs in Scotland. We discuss how UFO interest developed in the country, along with some the people, practices and organisations involved. Out on Wednesday! #Podcast #UFOs

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Dave Jeffery @davebjeffery.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Lee Murray and I have an interview with Georgia Walton from @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social British Horror and Psychologization Project. This is a follow up conversation after our recent article in @psychmag.bsky.social Here’s the link: horror.glasgow.ac.uk/bonus-interv...

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BONUS: Interview with Dave Jeffery and Lee Murray – British Horror and Psychologization

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Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Worse than limited opening hours, it's the withdrawal of 2/3 of the archive for curiosity-driven research that is the real scandal for what is supposed to be a public-service organization.

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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

A great interview here between George Walton and two horror authors in the BPS magazine, The Psychologist (also to appear in the print issue in due course)

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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Some reflections here from Georgia Walton on the somewhat obscure(d) figure of Freddie Francis, whose movies we've recently been enjoying as part of the project.

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Oh my god it is actually out - like actually now. Over a week early! They snuck it out without telling me! lol. Well, here it is people, and you can download the whole thing for free - thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social Fill your boots: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

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The Politics of Personal Experience | Writing a History of Munchausen

How should a historian with personal experience of their topics write about them? Exploring the author’s own experiences with Munchausen Syndrome and Munchausen

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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

'And, if we become gripped by this type of fear, our minds are opened wide to the psychological suggestion that we too are at risk of invasion by similar powers of evil.' - A pamphlet distributed by campaigners at screenings of The Exorcist (Ban this Filth! Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive)

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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This week I’ve been chatting with Dave Jeffrey and Lee Murray, whose recent collection This Way Lies Madness has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social. Congratulations to them! 🎉🎉🎉Read more about the collection over on our blog horror.glasgow.ac.uk/this-way-lie...

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This Way Lies Madness – British Horror and Psychologization

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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

New post now live on the project blog. Follow this link (horror.glasgow.ac.uk/herbert-read...) to learn more about how art critic Sir Herbert Read thought about the horror comics controversy of the 1950s

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

GenX Brits, get ready to revisit your night terrors, secret softcore, and video nasties. @ilovethatfilm.bsky.social's "Unsuitable Film & Video Audiences" revisits the memories of the first generation to grow up with home video. @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-unsuita...

The cover of the book "Unsuitable Film and Video Audiences: Underage Viewing Memories and Practices in 1980s United Kingdom" with an image from the movie POLTERGEIST of a girl sitting in front of a large TV, her hands both on the screen.

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Dr Ailsa Boyd @ailsaboyd.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The Turkish sauna in the Arlington Baths Club, Glasgow is 150 years old, and I'm giving a lecture on the history and context of the baths on 13 March 2026 at 7pm.

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Lecture at Arlington Baths Club, 13 March 2026

The Turkish sauna in the Arlington Baths Club is 150 years old, and I'm giving a lecture on the history and context of the baths on 13 March 2026 at 7pm.

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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Typeset in InDesign by my own hand, with cover slide (courtesy of A. Gray, who sent it in the post) scanned at UoE's King's Buildings so I could drop it into Photoshop. Mercifully, publishers do that kind of thing for us now. No more laboriously etching each page into half a potato, like we used to.

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

This looks like a cracking issue of @c21literature.bsky.social - especially interested in the pieces on stuckness, technology and Wikipedia.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 18/02/2026

A really interesting article on Wikipedia and fiction by Kiron Ward in @c21literature.bsky.social, published by @openlibhums.org. Complements nicely the article on Wikipedia and the Novel by Ryan Ruby in the current issue of New Left Review. c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

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Fictions of the Wikipedian Fact: Facticity, Authority, and 21st-century Fiction

This article considers the effect that Wikipedia has had on fiction of the 21st-century, and proposes that one distinctive feature of Wikipedia’s influence on this period has been the tension it has p...

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 16/02/2026

New C21Literature @c21literature.bsky.social special issue: “The Century at 25”, guest edited by Alice Bennett, Arin Keeble, Melissa Schuh and Denise Wong: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i...

Cover of C21 Literature, Volume 12, Issue 3 (2026), titled The Century at 25.

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Some Other Sphere Podcast @sphericalpod.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Some Other Sphere returns next week with the first episode of 2026! My guest is author and academic Alice Vernon, who joined me to discuss her new book 'Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting and Why We Keep Looking'. Available next Wednesday! @alicevernon10.bsky.social #Podcast #Paranormal #Ghosts

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This is a very good piece on the policy changes at the BBC Written Archives at Caversham, which have closed off most of the archive even to established researchers. It may seem a small thing, but it’s indicative of the wider assault on public institutions. Do read & sign the petition.

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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Today's pick for my paperbacks of the year is @oliverklangmead.bsky.social's Calypso: epic space scifi... as an epic poem! It's so unusual and creative: a tale of a character awakening from cryosleep on a colonising spaceship, but the narrators & style make this something really special. 📚💙🪐

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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Great to see our project well underway. Our thanks as ever to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this Research Project Grant.

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