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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

A long forgotten vampire comedy by my grandad has been adapted into a tv series for the BBC. Very surreal, and incredible cast. Perhaps it’s not so strange after all that I ended up with a PhD in the Gothic! (I need to lobby them to include a psychic vampire for S2) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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The Reluctant Vampire - First Look: Series 1

Coming soon. Lenny Rush stars in Eric Morecambe's spooky story with bite (or not)

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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 08/06/2026

*New Magazine Alert* A WEIRD OCCASIONAL is "an occasional publication devoted to the weird, particularly the older and unknown stuff" - I have contributed a 14 page lead essay on the many crimes of M.P. Dare, cover art and a lost vampire story. Link: tinyurl.com/7c28rmdd

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Final chapter! @janetteleaf.bsky.social shows how the sub-genre of spectral insects in Golden Age ghost stories inspire fear of what was once fleshly and is now transformed into the insubstantial and the exoskeletal. Bugs that go “Boo!” make the skin crawl like nothing else can. #NewDirections👻 🐜🕷🪳🐛

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

@jenniferschell16.bsky.social's chapter examines spectral whale tales circulating in contemporary print/visual culture of “ghost nets” & “ghost gear,” lost, abandoned, or discarded at sea; two different, yet viable, approaches to dealing with the precarity of life in the Necrocene 🐋 #NewDirections👻

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Nick Freeman's chapter looks at critically neglected short stories by A.M. Burrage from 1920s/30s, arguing that he made a distinctive contribution to the ghost story genre through his use of humdrum settings & deliberately “ordinary” protagonists. #NewDirections👻

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Ch10. Edmund Cueva examines inscriptions at eerie places that the Greeks and Romans may have visited for the thrill of encountering the supernatural and considers the parallels with this type of travel and the modern subindustry known as “dark tourism" #NewDirections👻

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Ch9. @drbeard79.bsky.social positions BBC sitcom Ghosts (❤️) as ridiculous, theorising 'the ridiculous' as an alternative aesthetic experience to the sublime, eschewing its emphasis on individual magnificence in favour of collective laughter in which ghosts are silly, low, vulnerable #NewDirections👻

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Ch6. Jayson Althofer examines Marx & Engels’s solidaristic observation and remembrance of the vocal, insistent afterlife of proletarian ghosts; the overlooked latent Gothic connotation—“the monstrous majority” of a monstrous collective of ghosts in their context and intertexts #NewDirections👻

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Ch.5 @henrybartholomew.bsky.social brings ontography into contact with theoretical work on the spectral, to lay foundations for an ontographic hauntology/hauntography. He uses ontography to reconsider the aesthetics of time, space, eidos & essence in the literary ghost story. #NewDirections👻

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Dr Janette Leaf @janetteleaf.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Huge excitement! I've written a chapter on 'Bugs that go "Boo!", and my contributing author's copy of New Directions in the Ghost story arrived today. Thanks to fabulous editors & fellow writers @jendeavour.bsky.social @joanpassey.bsky.social @henrybartholomew.bsky.social (@19birkbeck.bsky.social)

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Delighted to be in this talking about ridiculousness in BBC’s Ghosts and excited to see the rest of this first volume of new directions in the ghost story! Congrats all 🥳👻🥳

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

1. My opening ramble, 'At the Borderlands: A Haunted Introduction' grapples with the history of ghost story taxonomies & the complexities of terminology, before briefly surveying & sketching out key works of influential scholarship. Hopefully a good primer chapter for teaching 👻📚 #NewDirections

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Jennifer Schell @jenniferschell16.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

So grateful to have an essay in New Directions in the Ghost Story: "Ghost Gear and Cetacean Bodies: Stories of Spectral and Material Entanglement in the Necrocene" 👻💙🐋💙👻 Thanks @joanpassey.bsky.social, @henrybartholomew.bsky.social, @jendeavour.bsky.social! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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New Directions in the Ghost Story, Volume I

Discover New Directions in the Ghost Story, Volume 1, a landmark collection of essays exploring haunted narratives and Gothic fiction.

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Happy birthday to the one and only Algernon Blackwood #BOTD

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Calling all Thomas Hardy scholars - I bought a book for an obscure Algernon Blackwood story only to discover that it appears to be inscribed by Hardy. Can anyone confirm? And who is Caroline (‘Sammy’)? 🧐

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The latest issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social's Gothic Studies features articles by our own Dr Nick Freeman and doctoral researcher Milly Harrison, on 'Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic':

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Edinburgh University Press Journals - Cookie Absent

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

ICYMI - the latest issue of Gothic Studies journal is devoted to the author, mystic, and media star Algernon Blackwood. The Intro asks how we can understand Blackwood as an author both in and beyond the Gothic tradition and how his work reshapes the genre. doi.org/10.3366/goth...

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Publication day! My special issue on Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic is officially out: www.euppublishing.com/toc/gothic/c... My heartfelt thanks to all the contributors. So much in here - will cover in future posts. The issue positions B as a major force in C20th British Gothic.

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Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - gothic: Vol 27, No 3

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The cover of my upcoming special issue of @gothicstudies.bsky.social - 'Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic' - is here! Eight essays on Blackwood's fiction, delving into questions of genre, war, empathy, occultism, and much more. Full issue out soon! @edinburghup.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social

Proof image of the front and back covers of Volume 27 Issue 3 of Gothic Studies Journal. The back cover lists the contents.

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Something cosmic this way comes... the special issue of Gothic Studies I have been working on - Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic - is now in production ready for its November publication. Thrilled with the depth and breadth of insight and expertise from the contributors. More updates soon!

Three large stacks of first edition copies of Algernon Blackwood books

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The wondrous Algernon Blackwood was born on this day in 1869! Excited to say that I am currently editing a special issue of Gothic Studies on ‘Blackwood and the Gothic’ due Nov. Features a truly fantastic line-up of contributors. I can’t wait for people to read it.

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The most uncanny thing I've learnt from @henrybartholomew.bsky.social's excellent Handheld Press edition of Algernon Blackwood's writings is that—before turning to weird fiction—he tried to open something called 'the Hub'. Presumably bean bags, open plan desks, big lamps, Starbucks, no microwave.

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Some fantastic prices here. You can pick up a copy of my books ‘The Unknown’ and ‘The Living Stone’ for £5 each! Last chance to support a small publisher before they close 👻

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Algernon Blackwood’s “The Woman’s Ghost Story” republished in the Picture Post on Christmas Eve 1949 as “The Story the Woman Told”. Wonderful illustration by a 27-year old Susan Einzig (who would go on to illustrate Tom’s Midnight Garden)

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A small book filled with extraordinary ideas. I think aesthetic empathy is due a comeback. #VernonLee

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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

My first post over here! In case you don’t know, my biography of M. R. James, ‘For the Dead Remember’, will be coming your way next year from Oxford University Press.

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

First paperback colonial edition of Algernon Blackwood’s ‘Pan’s Garden’ (1912).

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A discovery! Lovely little clipping-bookmark…

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Beth Gaskell @bethgaskell.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Thought I’d make my first post both positive and useful-so here’s a list of all of the free-to-view titles now available on the British Newspaper Archive: blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...

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List of Free to View Pages | British Newspaper Archive

Working in partnership with the British Library, here we present a list of all newspaper pages included in our free to view newspaper collection.

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Dr Eleanor Hopkins @drejhopkins.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Sunshine (or last of) and autumn leaves in St James Park this afternoon. The appearance seemed too exciting not to note after weeks of grey …

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

👋🏻 so many new people about! Follow if you want extremely intermittent posting about ghosts, weird fiction, and Algernon Blackwood 🧐 Also shelfies from time to time…

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a black and white drawing of a ghost with the word booo written below it

ALT: a black and white drawing of a ghost with the word booo written below it

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Calling all Gothic Studies scholars! This is a tiny start on a list of folks working in the #Gothic to help us find each other. Halfway through compiling I thought it might be better to opt-in to make sure you all want to be here, so please comment below if you want to join! go.bsky.app/Si2MduA

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

A year ago! Copies can still be purchased from the press 👻 Happy Halloween

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Robert Edgar @robertedgar.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

We are very pleased to announce a new Bloomsbury Academic series. Spectres, Hauntings and Horrors The series editors are Dawn Keetley, Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social and myself. More information below. Logo & illustrations by the fantastic Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social

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Dr Eleanor Hopkins @drejhopkins.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

We've published the findings of the first phase of SHAPE research careers, synthesising a range of engagement with SHAPE researchers to better understand what a good, sustainable, and meaningful career does or can look like for SHAPE researchers. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

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Being a SHAPE Researcher: synthesis report

Synthesis report setting out findings and themes emerging from engagement activities undertaken to-date as part of the SHAPE Research Careers project.

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

Yesterday’s book shop find. A lovely 19th C copy. Cat stole focus, as she tends to do..

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,318,578!

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Went to see Alien: Romulus in an IMAX in China last night. It was so loud, making the soundless ‘vacuum’ moments very effective. Felt like I was in space. Not sure re the ethics of revivifying Ian Holm, but it was effective, story-wise. Next question: how much gore was cut for the Chinese release?

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

My new book The Living Stone: Stories of Uncanny Sculpture, 1858-1943 is officially out! You can get it most places, but if you want to support the small press that published it, purchase it directly: www.handheldpress.co.uk/shop/fantasy... Halloween may be over, but fear lives forever…..

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Henry Bartholomew (ed), The Living Stone - Handheld Press

The Living Stone collects classic supernatural stories of uncanny stones, rocks and carvings, doing what they ought not to do, with terrifying effect.

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

My timeline consists almost entirely of Neil Gaiman and the Pope.

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

“Archeology expands from sorting out the time of antiquity to openly working with the sorting that is itself the antiquity of time” - Witmore. What are people’s thoughts on semantic inversions as rhetorical technique? I often do it in my own writing (perhaps too much) - something compelling about it

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Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

First book I’ve read purely for pleasure in a long while. Enjoyed it a lot - the prose is astonishing and doesn’t dip in quality as it progresses. I’m not sure about the ending, but I loved the whole conceit of the under/over story. Plus I learned a whole load of facts about trees.

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