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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Kieran Strand-Leeds explores the ignored sci-fi side of Dungeons & Dragons. 🐉 By analyzing Spelljammer: Beyond the Moons, he shows how explaining science through magic turns "space fantasy" into a brilliant meta-commentary on the genre itself. Check it out here: muse.jhu.edu/article/986106

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Kevin Spencer reviews On Edge, a study of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett. Discover how these "doubly disadvantaged" authors challenged 1950s prestige to expand our understanding of the American landscape. 📖✍️ Read: muse.jhu.edu/article/986108 #Women #Gender #1950s

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Discover how Hollywood uses the female body and disability to create our most terrifying movie monsters. Through analyzing The Brood and Immaculate, Katherine Lucia Prentice explores how teratology and physiognomy underpin the development of Hollywood monsters.🧌🏆 Read: muse.jhu.edu/pub/235/arti...

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Can psychoanalysis decode speculative fiction?🧐 Jess Gallerie explores Jan Carson’s The Fire Starters, examining how Belfast parents face their children’s "monstrous" nature while blurring fact and fiction through Northern Ireland’s "gritty speculative lens." Read more: muse.jhu.edu/article/986102

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

How do legends move from belief into fiction? Jennifer Eastman Attebery explores the "legend webs" in Andy Duncan’s speculative stories. From UFO sightings to Southern tall tales, discover how Duncan uses folklore to perform vital cultural work. 👽🤔 Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/article/986104

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Dylan Lee Henderson explores H.P. Lovecraft’s short story "He" as a critique of 20th-century urbanism. See how this "weird tale" uses a haunting vision of a future New York to critique alienation and the loss of history in modern cities.🏙️ Read more: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56627

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

What is the "Black horror" theory? Joseph Lewis explores Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s "The Finkelstein 5" to provide insight into the existential implications of Black speculative fiction. Check it out: muse.jhu.edu/article/986103

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Indigenous voices have long been silenced throughout Australian cinema, but Tracey Moffatt’s beDevil turned this around. Erica Tortolani explores how these ghost stories subvert racist histories to pave new ground for the future of filmmaking.🎬 Check it out: muse.jhu.edu/pub/235/arti...

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

“What happens when we reimagine black spiritual and sexual excess as the sound of ‘making music so true’?” Brenton Boyd explores the "slippery, supernatural" Blackness of Sinners and how it uses the blues to bridge the past and future. 🎷🧛 Read more here: utampapress.org/music-so-tru... #Sinners

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

NEW ISSUE ALERT!🚨 The latest Studies in the Fantastic is here! Explore Black horror, Indigenous cinema, and gender in genre. Featuring Lovecraft , pregnancy horror, and cover art by Antoine Williams. Read now: utampapress.org/product/stud... #Gender #NewIssue #Read #SpecFic #speculativefiction

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 13/03/2026

The market at night, painted in 1840 by Petrus van Schendel (1806–1870). Isn't it amazing how the artist managed to create light with oil paint? I mean those lights look so real! And so many wonderful details, you feel like you're there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_...

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GIFCon @gifcon.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

You can now find the information for all of this year’s keynote speakers on our blog! Check out the link below: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20... #GIFCon #GIFCon2026 #FantasyConference #KeynoteSpeakers #Fantasy

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Have you read or watched Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children? 🪨🕰️ What does this quote mean to you? 🤔 #Fantasy #Books #Movies #MPHFPC

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The most chilling book I’ve ever read is… 1️⃣ A psychological mind-bender. 🧠 2️⃣ A gritty, true-crime style. ⚖️ 3️⃣ Haunted house/Gothic horror. 🏚️ 4️⃣ A bleak, dystopian future. ☢️ 📊 Show results

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I’ll never forget the moment a film made me look away because… 1️⃣ The body horror was too much. 🦴 2️⃣ The tension was unbearable. 😬 3️⃣ It felt too real to watch. 🙈 4️⃣ Something was behind them. 👻 📊 Show results

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The last time I felt true dread in fiction was during… 1️⃣ A slow, silent realization. 🌑 2️⃣ The "final girl" chase. 🔪 3️⃣ An ending with no hope. 🕳️ 4️⃣ A sudden, uncanny twist. 👁️ 📊 Show results

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Have you read Pierce Brown's "Red Rising" book yet? 🌌✨🩸 Purchase it here: www.amazon.com/Red-Rising-P... @piercebrown.bsky.social #SciFi #Books #TBR #Dystopian

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

What about this visual (and even the game 'Elden Ring' itself) sits with you the most? 🏰🩸 #EldenRing #Videogame

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Evangeline Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I’m wrapping up a few projects next week so I will be available for new work! Book covers or other things (posters, ttrpgs, drawings of that mysterious entity that visited you in your dreams…) Hit me up evangelinemgallagher@gmail.com

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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

With necromancy, knights and a great botanical magic system, @jennlyons.bsky.social brand new Green and Deadly Things is a fast-paced standalone fantasy read with dark vibes and excellent monsters. Out now! 🪐📚💙

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” - Animal Farm What does this quote mean to you? 🧐 #AnimalFarm #Quote

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The line between science fiction and horror disappears when… 1️⃣ We find out we’re the "prey" species. 🛸 2️⃣ Experimentation goes horribly wrong 🧪 3️⃣ When the virus doesn't just kill🧟 4️⃣ The unknown becomes a threat👽 📊 Show results

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

If I could live in one fictional world, it would be… 1️⃣ J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth💍 2️⃣ J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World🪄 3️⃣ Star Wars galaxy🌌 4️⃣ C.S. Lewis’s Narnia🦁 📊 Show results

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The game that redefined storytelling for me was… 1️⃣ Outer Wilds. 🛰️ 2️⃣ Disco Elysium. 👔 3️⃣ BioShock. 🗽 4️⃣ The Last of Us. 🍄 📊 Show results

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The most haunting piece of art I’ve ever seen is… 1️⃣ Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son. 🍴 2️⃣ Anything by Zdzisław Beksiński. 🏰 3️⃣ Bacon’s Study after Velázquez. 😱 4️⃣ The empty space in a Rothko. ⬛ 📊 Show results

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

What is your favorite version of Wuthering Heights? 💨🌧️🏰 - the book? - the movies? #WutheringHeights #movie #book #wuthering

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

What are strategies you use for writing characters and dialogue? Are you influenced by people you know? Characters? 📖🎭 #Writing #Actors #Friends

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

It’s wild to think that 400 centuries ago, someone felt the same urge we do to leave a mark and be heard. If you could leave one message for people 40,000 years from now, what would you say?✍️🤔 #Writing #artifact #History

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biomespec.bsky.social @biomespec.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Let the Biome engulf you Fill you with strange life Submit your best scifi and fantasy stories at biomespec.wordpress.com #writingCommunity #writeSky #amWriting #scifi #fantasy #fiction #amwriting #podcast #biology

Poster for Biome speculative fiction magazine: Paying market. Fast responses: biomespec.wordpress.com

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Pamela Delupio @pameladelupio.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

#CurrentlyReading The Poet Empress by Shen Tao To save those she loves, Wei Yin offers herself to the Azalea House―where poetry magic is power, but women are forbidden to read. She must survive the dangers of court, learn to read in secret, and compose the most powerful spell of all. #booksky

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.” — Blade Runner (1982) ⛈️💧 #BladeRunner

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.” — Bram Stoker 🏰🩸⚰️ #Dracula #Horror #GothicHorror

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The most underrated horror film of all time is… 1️⃣ The Ritual 🌲 2️⃣ As Above, So Below 🔦 3️⃣ Lake Mungo 📹 4️⃣ Possessor 🧠 📊 Show results

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The book/game/movie that made me question reality was… 1️⃣ Inception (the spinning top). 🌀 2️⃣ The Matrix (the red pill). 🕶️ 3️⃣ BioShock (the twist). ⚓ 4️⃣ Dark Matter (the choices). 🚪 📊 Show results

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I knew I loved speculative fiction when… 1️⃣ Reality started feeling too small. 🌌 2️⃣ I understood its hidden meanings🪐 3️⃣ the first dragon took flight🐉 4️⃣ I finally asked, "What if?" 🔮 📊 Show results

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Read more about how Brenton Boyd breaks down the hidden layers of Hoodoo and Black queer history in the movie 'Sinners.' ⚰️🩸 Check it out now! utampapress.org/music-so-tru... #Sinners #Movie #review

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Who is your favorite character from a 'Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' so Far??🩸🎠⚔️ #KOTSK #GOT #GameOfThrones

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

What kind of Fantasy to you write, read, watch? ⚔️🧚🏰 #Fantasy

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

What a lovely garden this was to sit in and sketch! (maybe I overdid the twiddly bits). There were two friendly white poodles wandering around and if you zoom in you'll see one of them sitting on the circular seat along with another sketcher. #watercolour #Indianink #poodle #garden #enpleinair

Watercolour drawing in a splendid Victorian garden in Cambridge 2013. One of the two resident poodles has joined Rosemary, another artist, on the wrought iron garden seat encircling a tree. The sun shone all day.

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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Blood and Fire is the start of an epic fantasy series by @ryancahill.bsky.social perfect for fans of Tolkien, GoT, & John Gwynne, packed with action, magic, monsters and heroes ⚔️🐉 We currently have this beautiful new exclusive edition from Broken Binding Publishing in stock, if you're quick! 💙📚🪐

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Wuthering Heights (1847) 💔🏰 #WutheringHeights

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Are monsters born from culture or commerce? 1️⃣ Culture: Our deepest societal fears. 👹 2️⃣ Commerce: Built for "toy-etic" appeal. 🧸 3️⃣ Culture: Folklore evolved into modern legends. 📜 4️⃣ Commerce: Brand priority over real horror. 💰 📊 Show results

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Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The most unsettling silence in a film happens when… 1️⃣ The music cuts before a scare. 🔇 2️⃣ You realize you aren’t alone. 👤 3️⃣ Outer space swallows all sound. 🌌 4️⃣ The dialogue stops before a betrayal. 🗡️ 📊 Show results

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