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Early modern/19th-cent. English literature, science and literature, landscape in literature, fantasy, horror and weird fiction.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Meme with the text  “Motivational speaker: Unleash the lion inside you!” followed by "The lion inside me:" above two medieval drawings of weird looking lions.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Whilst out and about and cake-bothering booksellers, I saw my first Hookland sticker out in the wild.
A Hookland sticker on a pipe covering up some fascistic filth. The sticker reads: HERNE THE HUNTER HATES YOUR RACIST BOLLOCKS
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Tolkien Seminar DTG @tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Schaut euch unser Programm an! 🔽🔽🔽 📢 Programm zum Seminar der @germantolksoc.bsky.social 📜Umwelt, Um-Welt und Mit-Welt in Tolkien 📅16.10.-18.10.2026, Umweltbildungszentrum Augsburg 🌐Teilnahme vor Ort oder online ist kostenlos #Tolkien #envhum 💙📚 #lit #litwiss #fantasy #bluehumanities #envhist
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Tolkien Seminar DTG @tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Noch bis zum 4. Oktober könnt ihr euch registrieren, wenn ihr vor Ort an der Konferenz teilnehmen wollt: tolkien-seminar.de. Falls Ihr lieber online teilnehmen wollt: die Registrierung ist bis zur Veranstaltung selbst offen.
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Tolkien Seminar 2026: Umwelt, Um-Welt und Mit-Welt in Tolkiens Werk
Das 22. Tolkien Seminar der Deutschen Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V. vom 16. bis 18. Oktober 2026 im Umweltbildungszentrum Augsburg – vor Ort und online. Die Teilnahme ist kostenfrei.
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Tolkien Seminar DTG @tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Have a look at our programme! 🔽🔽🔽 📢 22nd Seminar of the @germantolksoc.bsky.social 📜Environment, the World around us, and Shared Spaces in Tolkien 📅16.10.-18.10 2026, Environmental Education Centre in Augsburg 🌐Attendance in-person or online is free #Tolkien #envhum 💙📚 #lit #litwiss #fantasy
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Tolkien Seminar DTG @tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Don't forget you can still register until 4 October if you want to attend in person: tolkien-seminar.com. If you'd like to attend online, the registration is open until the event.
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Tolkien Seminar 2026: Environment, Ecosphere, Community: Tolkien and Enworldment
The 22nd Tolkien Seminar of the Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V., 16–18 October 2026 at the Umweltbildungszentrum Augsburg, Germany – in person and online. Participation is free of charge.
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German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is either: 1) a 1920 Thuringian advert for Bockbier, designed by Georg Fanner, or 2) a group of satanic locals worshipping their half-goat, half-beer glass overlord
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Robert Edgar @robertedgar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Tom Stanger @tomasstanger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You may have seen me sharing posts from The Gothic Revival, but not know what it is. The Gothic Revival is a magazine exploring Literature, film, folklore, paranormal, music, photography and anything else we can cram in! There's a FREE issue; you can download it here: thegothicrevival.com/shop
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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve just discovered the existence of “Coffin Paths” (or “Corpse Roads”), down which people were carried to be buried in the nearest Parish Church. They could be miles long. Down to the C19th, they were believed to be heavily haunted and often crossed rivers, because spirits were stopped by water
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🕸️👻 Dr Evilyn K🎃ch 👻🕸️ @evelynkoch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Went to see The Uprising (with no great expectations) because it's already in cinemas over here. Now this is a very silly film. Please don't show medieval people grubbing through the soil post-Monty Python. Yes, it's THAT kind of film...
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Karl Bell @karlbell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is World Maritime Day, so here's a timely reminder of The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic @reaktionbooks.bsky.social 'Bell ... brings exemplary scholarship as well as storytelling flair to the lightless depths of the “supernatural and monstrous Atlantic”.
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Alan van Beek @thiliel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Might be a necessary read for all medievalists
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
CATTE VERSIOUN (speculatyve! not based on real attested textes!) • OLD ENGLISH: Miæow • MIDDLE ENGLISH: Myeaue • EARLY MODERN ENGLISH: Meowe
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚
A shelf of books by JRR Tolkien
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EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
CFP: Conference ‘Fantastic Spaces and Places' Karlstad, Sweden 15-17 June, 2027 Deadline for abstracts: 1 November, 2026 Info: www.kau.se/kufo/aktivit... #speculativefiction #ecocriticism #ecopoetics
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Fantastic Spaces and Places | Karlstads universitet
The second European Conference on the Fantastic Karlstad, Sweden 15-17 June, 2027
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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The new @blpublishing.bsky.social Tales of the Weird collection is one it’s surprising we’ve not seen already, given the inherent spookiness of cats. Some classics here, like Lovecraft’s ‘The Cats of Ulthar’ but also some deeper cuts for feline fanatics. #TalesOfTheWeird #Horror #Fiction #Cats
The front cover of a paperback book, with yellow design on a black background. In the top right corner a small cat is silhouetted against a window and its shadow is cast down to the bottom left corner. The shadow is a more menacing, spiky iteration of the original cat with glowing yellow eyes. In the top left, stark text says FIENDISH FELINES: Twisted Tales of Uncanny Cats, edited by Janette Leaf
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Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This excellent book by Andrew Sneddon on witchcraft accusations and disability is free to view and download until 15th October - it’s in the CUP Elements in Magic series that I used to edit: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World
Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New book - Images of the Plant Humanities: Theory, Art and the Botanic Gaze, edited by Danielle Sands & Daniel Whistler "...examines how vegetal life has been theorised both in the contemporary plant humanities...and in Western modernity more generally." www.bloomsbury.com/us/images-of...
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Brian Weaver @brianitguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"I am in fact a Hobbit" Various depictions of Gollum on film. From the #RalphBakshi #LOTR, Soviet #TheHobbit, Rankin Bass Hobbit & #PeterJackson Lord of the Rings @timbolton.bsky.social
Ralph BakshiSoviet film GollumRankin Bass GollumPeter Jackson Gollum
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"I offer you immortality, my child." Creepy twins abound in Pamela Bedore & Anita Duneer's new book, "New Approaches to the Doppelganger." See Margaret Owens' chapter on uncanny doubles in MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933). @routledgebooks.bsky.social www.routledge.com/New-Approach...
On the left, the cover of the book "New Approaches to the Doppelganger in Literature & Culture" with a generic cover of a multicolored triangle design.On the right, a black and white image from the 1933 film MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM in which a hideously disfigured man reveals his face to a woman, her back turned to the camera.
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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Coming soon...
Front cover for New Directions in the Ghost  Story Vol. 2, the image is a c19th illustration of a group gathered around the fire while an "old wife" tells them a story.
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Steve Mentz @stevementz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So exciting to see this big blue fish come closer into view!
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 16/09/2026
CFP: Hogg’s Worlds Now 2–4 July 2027 @glasgow.ac.uk Paper proposals are invited that engage with any aspect of James Hogg’s life & writing, & with the broader community of authors associated with Scottish #Romanticism. Abstracts due by 31 Dec. studiesinhoggandhisworld.blogspot.com/2026/05/fort...
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Forthcoming James Hogg Conference
Hogg’s Worlds Now The James Hogg Society is delighted to announce that we will be holding a conference at the University of Glasgow on July ...
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Nik Gunn @nikgunn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reading Middlemarch and it got me thinking about Tolkien's non-medieval reading habits. The main pub is the Green Dragon, Mr Featherstone battling off family from his inheritance, Casaubon working away on a book of myth...
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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It was a real pleasure to contribute a piece to this fantastically interdisciplinary volume organized by Danielle Sands & Daniel Whistler, in collaboration with colleagues in the Library & Archives at @rbgkew.bsky.social 🌿 #envhist #histsci #plants www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
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🕸️👻 Dr Evilyn K🎃ch 👻🕸️ @evelynkoch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Looked up some book editions by Algernon Blackwood and came across this gem of an inappropriate cover. 😆
Completely inappropriate cover of a e-book edition of Algernon Blackwood's The Garden of Survival featuring an apparently LLM-generated image of a person wearing a straw hat bending down amongst unnecessarily uncanny carrot greens to harvest some carrots.
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Found in 1856 during the cutting of a grave for Martha Brown (whose sad tale inspired Thomas Hardy to write Tess of the d’Urbervilles) this Roman mosaic belonged to a 4th century townhouse Lifted and set into Dorchester prison chapel the mosaic now resides in Dorset Museum 📷 Sep 2026 #MosaicMonday
The centre of a geometric polychrome Roman mosaic floor with two heart shaped leaves surrounded by intersecting black squares and red triangles
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🕸️👻 Dr Evilyn K🎃ch 👻🕸️ @evelynkoch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
For #RomanSiteSaturday, parts of the Mithraeum III of Nida, a Roman town which today is Frankfurt-Heddernheim. As seen in the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt. 🏺
Various statues and reliefs of Mithras as well as of a hybrid lion-human creature.
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🕸️👻 Dr Evilyn K🎃ch 👻🕸️ @evelynkoch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
For #RomanSiteSaturday, parts of the Mithraeum III of Nida, a Roman town which today is Frankfurt-Heddernheim. As seen in the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt. 🏺
Various statues and reliefs of Mithras as well as of a hybrid lion-human creature.
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BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
CFP: ‘Occult Science’ – BSLS 2026/27 Winter Symposium (29 January 2027 – Online) Abstract deadline: 31 October 2026 buff.ly/B1opCOJ
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CFP: ‘Occult Science’ – BSLS 2026/27 Winter Symposium
Occult Science: Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment, and the Persistence of Wonder 29 January 2027 – Online Despite enduring narratives that cast modern science as the agent of rationalisation, the rela…
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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ is published today! Seven years in the writing, many more in the planning, and - here it is!
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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Great theme for the BSLS Winter Symposium!
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🕸️👻 Dr Evilyn K🎃ch 👻🕸️ @evelynkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Maybe we can speculate which part of alchemy will be showcased in season 2 - The "true mandrake" hatched from an egg as described by Agrippa von Nettesheim, for example?
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Who's behind the masks? Pieter Bruegel's enigmatic and unsettling drawing of a team of beekeepers from 1568. Today is his day.
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🕸️👻 Dr Evilyn K🎃ch 👻🕸️ @evelynkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still one of my favourite quotes on the Danish settlers in early medieval England: "They were wont, after the fashion of their country, to comb their hair every day, to bathe every Saturday, to change their garments often, and set off their persons by many such frivolous devices." #WyrdWednesday
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 08/09/2026
Interesting 📰 @theguardian.com by @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social on non-neural cognition: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... Confronted with this polarizing debate, @philosobio.bsky.social & I wrote a balanced take on basal #cognition from an #evobio lens 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #HPS
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‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence
The long read: Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world – and our own place...
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 08/09/2026
And if you are interested in slime molds, Matt's Cambridge Element is essential reading for learning more about their life cycle, unique physiology, morphology, and behavior, and why this organism is so fascinating for philosophers too! 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Book cover of “Slime Mould and Philosophy” by Matthew Sims in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A great read 👇 And, yes, go slime moulds!
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Amanda Mason @amandajanemason.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Northerners and the northern-curious! Just three weeks before we launch #TheDark at King's Manor in York. I'll be chatting with @robertedgar.bsky.social, come and join us, details here... @manillapress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amanda-mas...
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Amanda Mason’s, The Dark - Book Launch Event
Join us at King's Manor where The Hauntology & Spectrality Group are pleased to be hosting the launch of Amanda Mason’s latest novel!
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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Absolutely essential viewing, if you've not already experienced Penda's Fen then you'll soon have the chance to.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Datinge app for megalith enthuasistes Henge
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Spooky Sunday @spookysunday.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A representation of one of the many Black Dogs of UK #folklore - this one all the way down in Cornwall. #SpookySunday #Cornwall
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🕸️👻 Dr Evilyn K🎃ch 👻🕸️ @evelynkoch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Well hello.
Painting of Der Nachtmahr by Henry Fuseli (Heinrich Füssli). A woman lies on the bed in an unnatural position with her head and arms hanging down. On her stomach sits a kind of Kobold/imp. In the background, a ghostly white horse stares onto the scene.
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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
mūs-fealu, adj: mouse-coloured. (MOOS-FEH-ah-luh / ˈmuːs-ˌfɛa-lʌ) Image: Ormesby Psalter; England (East Anglia), 1250-1330; @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Douce 366, f. 131r. #OldEnglish #WOTD
Medieval manuscript marginalia of a fat cat staring at a large brown mouse that is peeking out of a hole.
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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
CFP for the Brontes and the Supernatural symposium for next September in Haworth - deadline New Year’s Eve
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Haunt me, then! - The Brontës and the Supernatural Symposium | The Brontë Parsonage Museum
CALL FOR PAPERSThe Brontë Parsonage Museum’s 2027 special exhibition will focus on the Brontës’ fascination with the supernatural, and we invite proposals
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
2/2 The owl of Malle Babbe, as so brilliantly executed by Frans Hals. This is real painterly sprezzatura! And in such an unexpected context, which makes it extra cool.
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🕸️👻 Dr Evilyn K🎃ch 👻🕸️ @evelynkoch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Gwithti an Pystri - A Cabinet of Folklore and Magic in Falmouth hosts this recreation of Black Shuck. #WyrdWednesday 📸 2023
A life-sized model of Black Shuck featuring grey fur and a single giant eye on its forehead.
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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We're saddened by the loss of #DollyParton - icon of music & film, supporter of children's literacy & science & so much more💔 Here's a rare book (only 1 other in German libraries!) from 1985 retelling her life for young readers: "Dolly Parton - Country Goin' to Town" by Susan Saunders & Rodney Pate
Holding the book "Dolly Parton - Country Goin' to Town" by Susan Saunders
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🕸️👻 Dr Evilyn K🎃ch 👻🕸️ @evelynkoch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Some fabulous early modern woodcuts of fierce dogs. Repost for #WyrdWednesday
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