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International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Join the @gothicstudies.bsky.social editorial team! Gothic Studies is pleased to announce a number of editorial positions: 2 associate editors and 1 North American reviews editor. Click here for more information and to apply: www.globalgoth.org/blog/join-th...

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Join the Gothic Studies editorial team - Gothic Association

Gothic Studies is pleased to announce a number of editorial positions.

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

📣 Symposium on the life & writings of MR James w/ adaptations of 'Lost Hearts' & 'A Warning to the Curious' by @nunkie.bsky.social 📍Drayton Arms Theatre, London 🕰️ 8 November 2026 Full details 👉 tinyurl.com/m7p89yx4 @bavs-uk.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social #AcademicSky

Foreground: "Pleasing Terrors: The 2026 MR James Festival"
Background: The Drowned Man's Ghost Tries Claim a New Victim for the Sea by Thorvald Niss (a skeletal figure is dragging a human deeper into the water, behind them an empty beach and sand dunes stretch into the distance...)

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THE MOURNING PAPER @themourningpaper.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

At this year’s IGA, we saw presentations on everything from dolls to trad wives, horror to classic Gothic literature.💀 @igagoths.bsky.social We rounded up some attendees to tell us about themselves and their papers. 🖊️ #academia #internationalgothicassociation #goth #alt #gothic #gothicacademia

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THE MOURNING PAPER @themourningpaper.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

At this year’s IGA, we saw presentations on everything from vampires to social media, TADC to The Portrait of Dorian Gray💀 @igagoths.bsky.social We rounded up some attendees to tell us about their papers 🖊️ #academia #internationalgothicassociation #goth #alt #gothic

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GossamerWight Literary Magazine @gossamerwight.com · 15/08/2026

News from the @igagoths.bsky.social (IGA): Join Mike Muncer, host of The Evolution of Horror, the UK’s #1 horror podcast, for horror film screenings across the UK! bit.ly/45vl7S0 The Exorcist: bit.ly/4g4rqkc (Oct 1) An American Werewolf in London + The Fly: bit.ly/4wqFsmt (Oct 3)

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The Evolution of Horror

The Official Website for The Evolution Of Horror podcast.

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🏆️📚️ WINNER 📚️🏆️ Congratulations to Dale Townshend whose book 'Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Gothic and Romantic Literary Culture' has won the Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for Best Monograph at the @igagoths.bsky.social conference! Discover more about this fascinating book: uwp.celfapps.com/book/matthew...

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Absolutely thrilled that our @ogomproject.bsky.social book won the Justin D. Edwards award @igagoths.bsky.social conference. Big thankyou to the IGA and all those on the awarding panel. This really does mean a lot!!!

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Rebecca Greef @rebeccabrenna.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A massive congratulations to @coffinboffin.bsky.social and @billbloodyhughes.bsky.social on being awarded the @igagoths.bsky.social Justin D. Edward’s prize for an edited collection!! So proud of you both for Polidori’s justice! 🧛

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We are thrilled to be attending @igagoths.bsky.social's conference in Hull this week! Make sure to stop by to browse our exciting range of Gothic and Horror studies titles, all at special conference discounts 📚️ Unable to attend in person? Browse our online stand! www.uwp.co.uk/gothic-and-h...

Up to 50% off entire Gothic and Horror series!

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Hello to everyone attending #IGA2026 👋 Don't forget to visit the MUP stand to explore our latest #Gothic and #Horror books, discover our new series, and chat with Senior Commissioning Editor @mlhouston.bsky.social about your book proposal ideas 📚 See you there! @igagoths.bsky.social #GothicStudies

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

📢Delighted to reveal that The Legacy of John Polidori has been shortlisted for a Justin D. Edwards prize for advancing the field of gothic studies. Join us for a Gothic Graveyard Tour in London on 18 July to celebrate & get 30% discount off the paperback @igagoths.bsky.social. Ticket link below!!

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We are so looking forward to attending the @igagoths.bsky.social at the University of Hull later this month! Take a sneak peak at some of the books we will be bringing with our £25 Gothic and Horror Studies paperbacks📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/gothic-and-h...

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International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We are delighted to announce the shortlists for this year’s two IGA Book Prizes: the Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for the monograph and the Justin D. Edwards Prize for the edited collection best advancing the field of Gothic studies: www.globalgoth.org/blog/iga-boo...

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IGA Book Prizes 2026: Shortlists Announced - Gothic Association

We are delighted to announce the shortlists for this year’s two IGA Book Prizes: the Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for the monograph best advancing the field of Gothic studies, and the Justin D. Edwards Pri...

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Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Blown away that my book, Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film, has been longlisted for the Allan Lloyd Smith Prize by the International Gothic Association (@igagoths.bsky.social). Honoured to be amongst such brilliant colleagues. A big thank you to my wonderful gothic peers! @uclselcs.bsky.social

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It's up! You can book! My new course with the University of Liverpool starts in May! 'Transformations of the Gothic' Online. Open to all. You can join from anywhere. No previous experience necessary. Just bring a love of the subject! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

A Queen of Spades by Pushkin
Mythic Delerium
The Old Nurse's Story
Skin Thief by Suzan Palumbo
Wuthering Heights
Uncanny
An image of two women in a forest from Carmilla
Dark Matter magazine
Carnivorine by Lucy Hopkins
William Hodgson
Jamaica Inn
Dragonwyck
Sing, Unburied, Sing
A Rose for Emily
The Monster of Elendhaven
I am Stone by Robert Murray Gilchrist
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
The New Mother by Lucy Clifford

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Helen Pinsent @heleninwords.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Arrived home to find this beauty waiting for me! Thanks to the editors and to @uniwalespress.bsky.social for making my first scholarly publication experience so rewarding. @dal-english.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social

Photo of the edited collection Urban Legends and the Cultural Geography of Horror, whose cover features a darkened alleyway with lots of stairs.

First page of the table of contents, showing my chapter “‘The Family Business’: Mobility and Patriarchy in the CW’s Supernatural” in the #5 slot. They even spelled my name right!

My wee bio: “Helen Pinsent is a PhD candidate at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her research areas include American literature, popular culture, Gothic fiction, and mobility studies. Her dissertation focuses on connections between automobility and the American dream in American Gothic fiction after the Second World War.”

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

✨️ 📚️ International Gothic Association Book Prize Longlist 📚️ ✨️ We are delighted to have two books nominated for @igagoths.bsky.social 2026 prizes! Congratulations to @dalegothic96.bsky.social, @barbarachamberlin.bsky.social, Kom Kunyosying, and @hypnojoo.bsky.social!

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The Book of Darkness & Light @tbodal.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

TONIGHT: Join us for 11 Newstead Grove: A Very Dark Tale. Places are Pay What You Decide. Every donation is so gratefully received. It's a real horrid tale... TONIGHT: Tues 24 March 7.30pm. Book your place: newsteadgrove.eventbrite.co.uk

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`11 Newstead Grove: a very dark tale

A ghost story, live-streamed

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

We’re thrilled to announce that six of our books are included in the longlist for this year’s International Gothic Association Book Prizes @igagoths.bsky.social Congratulations to all our nominated authors, it’s a fantastic recognition of their work! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/03...

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Heading to the IGA this summer! Some much needed time with the goths in these dark times! 🖤 @igagoths.bsky.social

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International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The deadline for IGA Hull 2026 has now closed: we're delighted to have received a large number of submissions, and will be informing potential delegates as soon as possible. Don't forget to register for IGA membership if you'd like to join us there: www.globalgoth.org/join/

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Join - Gothic Association

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Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Essaka Joshua’s wonderful study Disability and the Gothic has just been published! Even better, it’s free online from today until the 3rd March 2026: www.cambridge.org/core/element... @dalegothic96.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @igagoths.bsky.social

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Disability and the Gothic

Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic

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General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine @generalwitch.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

ONE WEEK to go. Submissions close 20 February for stories and articles in our next zine. Got something strange, scary, or splendidly unsettling hiding in your drafts folder? Send it our way: tinyurl.com/zinemay26 Illustrators, we need you too

Bold graphic with large red text reading “One Week.” Below, it says the deadline for stories and articles for the next zine is 20 February, includes the submission link tinyurl.com/zinemay26, and invites illustrators to get in touch. Purple background with red, white, black, and mint green text.

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International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The call for nominations for The Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for a Monograph of Gothic Criticism 2026 and The Justin D. Edwards Memorial Prize for an Edited Collection of Gothic Criticism 2026 is now open! Submit by March 2nd: www.globalgoth.org/blog/call-fo...

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Call for nominations for the IGA Book Prizes - Gothic Association

Call for nominations by March 2nd for The Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for a Monograph of Gothic Criticism, 2026 and The Justin D. Edwards Memorial Prize for an Edited Collection of Gothic Critici...

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Gwenthalyn Engélibert @gweneng.cpesr.fr · 30/01/2026

#GothicStudies

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Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Looking forward to speaking at the 'Trans-scriptions: Cultural Codings and the Poetics of the Body' in a couple of weeks. And what a gorgeous poster their team has come up with! #bodyhorror #conference wordpre150.wordpress.com

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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Hi everyone, I'm organising a conference in Leuven, 4-5 June, and you're all invited*! It's called 'Performing evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000' and here is the call for papers (get in touch if you'd like a pdf!). Please share widely! *to submit an abstract before 21/3

CALL FOR PAPERS: PERFORMING EVIL: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres, 1700-2000'. 4 & 5 June 2026, Leuven.

This conference explores the tangled histories of supernatural, diabolic evil and all kinds of spectral apparitions in the last three centuries – Walter Scott’s ‘malignant and unhappy beings’. Specifically, it is interested in how and why ghosts, spirits and related apparitional phenomena were framed as diabolic, demonic or malign manifestations from the afterlife.

Diabolic connotations of ghosts and spirits did meaningful cultural work. They were mobilised to discredit ghost beliefs and spiritual practices, to delegitimise competing beliefs, or to invest doctrinal arguments with occult authority. They could also function as tools of scepticism and ridicule as well as triggers of wonder, fear and religiosity. Put differently, the nexus of ghosts and evil is deeply historical. And it was often articulated through performative means: in gestures and expressions of (dis)belief, in visual and textual representations, in séance rooms, on the stage and on the page. Emerging from this nexus are theatrical spirits of evil, staged, embodied, and made legible through mediation and display. In this sense, every ghost is a theatrical ghost. Through the focus on the construction and staging of diabolic spirits, this conference aims to develop a methodological framework for studying historical forms of occultism and demonology more broadly in terms of performance.

Exploring how the relationship of spectrality and evil has shifted in shape over time and across different cultures, the conference invites contributions that can consider a wide range of historical actors – clerics, mediums, ghost-hunters, debunkers, necromancers, stage
performers, eyewitnesses.

This conference aims to study cultural intersections and interactions to arrive at a more granular understanding of discursive, practical and material connections between spirits and evil. At the same time this lens zooms out, making visible broader dynamics of knowledge construction in specific historical moments. How, for instance, did hauntings and possessions shape communities and audiences? How did religious or folkloric ideas about the devil inform spectral encounters?

We hope to bring together historians, art historians, theatre and literary scholars, folklorists and anthropologists from every stage in their career around the above questions. We welcome 20-minute papers on topics that include but are by no means limited to:
- making spectral evil visible: performance, arts, media, technologies, popular cultures
- making spectral evil invisible: popular and occult knowledge circulation
- performing (un)belief: practices and rhetoric, summoning and debunking on the stage (from popular stages to the lecture hall and the laboratory)
- materiality of spectres: the function of bodies and objects
- diabolic spirits and (intellectual, vernacular, theological, folkloric) ideas about morality, mortality and temporality
- occult performance and ‘cultural scripts’ of ghost encounters (from necromancy to poltergeists)
- affect and emotions: fear, grief, trauma… and hope

Send abstracts (c.250 words) and bios (c.100 words) to kristof.smeyers@kuleuven.be before 21 March 2026. Please do get in touch if you have any questions.

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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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Gothic Studies @gothicstudies.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Gothic Studies is recruiting! We seek a new assistant editor 🧛‍♂️

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International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Planning to attend our conference in July? Don’t forget that you need an active IGA membership! Members get a monthly newsletter, listing on our interactive Goth Map, subscription to @gothicstudies.bsky.social and more, with prices starting at just £6! Join us: www.globalgoth.org/join/

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International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Tomorrow’s the final day to get your abstract in for this year’s IGA, ‘Gothic Selves/Artificial Others’, to be held at the @universityofhull.bsky.social, UK from 28-31 July. You can find more details at hullgothic.wordpress.com/cfp/

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Join @gothicstudies.bsky.social as our new Assistant Editor! Deadline Monday 9th March. Annual honorarium of £200. More information in attached image, via the @igagoths.bsky.social newsletter or you can message me and I can send you the text if preferred.

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Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Just out in the Horror Studies book series! www.uwp.co.uk/book/urban-l... #horror #horrorstudies #newbook #urbanlegends @uniwalespress.bsky.social

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Lnuonhorror @lnuonhorror.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I'm excited to share that you can now pre-order your copy of this forthcoming intervention in the Gothic. I have a piece on the Windigo in it! @universitypress.cambridge.org @msvuenglish.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/se/universit...

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The Cambridge Companion to World-Gothic Literature | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Deadline for abstracts is 30 January 2026 #CallforPapers #CfP #GothicStudies #Gothic

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Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The plenary speakers have just been announced! And a reminder that the CfP for the 18th biennial conference of the International #Gothic Association closes on the 31st of January. hullgothic.wordpress.com @igagoths.bsky.social @gothicstudies.bsky.social

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Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The new paperback for Graveyard Gothic is 40% off at @ManchesterUP until 31 January. #gothic #gothicstudies #newbook manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/gothic-studi...

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Discover new paperback editions of some of our bestselling #GothicStudies books, and save *40%* in the BIG January Sale! Don't miss out! Shop now manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/gothic-studi... #Gothic #GothicLiterature #GothicCinema #FilmStudies @mlhouston.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Abstracts due in 10 days! Reposting partially to remind myself!

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Kevin Corstorphine @drkevcorstorphine.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

There are two weeks to get your abstracts in for the International Gothic Association's 18th Biennial Conference at Hull! 28th-31st July 2026 🦇 hullgothic.wordpress.com/cfp/

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Call for Papers

‘Gothic Selves/Artificial Others’, University of Hull, UK (28-31 July, 2026) Once speculative, artificial intelligence now haunts contemporary society, with public discourse around its application …

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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

9 years ago we lost Mark Fisher, whose work offers perhaps the best diagnosis of the situation we find ourselves in. In his memory, we've tasked authors with using Fisher's ideas as a jumping off point for all-new horror fictions. 📘THE MONSTER, CAPITAL (Feb 26) commapress.co.uk/books/monste...

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International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The deadline for applications to the role of Secretary to The Allan Lloyd Smith and Justin D. Edwards Memorial Book Prizes has been extended to 19 January! The successful applicant will receive a fee of £300. More information and application details: www.globalgoth.org/blog/applica...

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Applications open: Secretary to The Allan Lloyd Smith and Justin D. Edwards Memorial Book Prizes - Gothic Association

The International Gothic Association (IGA) is delighted to invite applications for the role of Secretary to The Allan Lloyd Smith and Justin D. Edwards Memorial Book Prizes. This position provides a u...

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Adam Z. Robinson @adamzed.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

*TEN PLACES LEFT* Join me for this six-workshop online Ghost Story Writing Course, starting this January. Beginners and experienced writers alike will explore this thrilling, chilling genre and pen their own ghostly tales. Find out more... ghoststorycourse.eventbrite.co.uk

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Ghost Story Writing Course

An online six-session Ghost Story Writing Course where you'll learn to pen your own ghostly tales.

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