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Jimmy Packham

@jfpackham.bsky.social
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Researching and writing about literature of the sea and the gothic: mostly coastly, the seabed and deep ocean, blue hums, and gothic voices. Co-runs the Haunted Shores network. Senior Lecturer at University of Birmingham.

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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Term has begun, emails and powerpoints a-poppin'. But I picked this up at the weekend, and it is a very welcome distraction (and James is an excellent psychopomp to take us back into the semester). Congratulations @profdarryljones.bsky.social!
Image show a copy of Darryl Jones' new biography of MR James, For the Dead Remember.
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm not totally convinced this edition has a terribly high opinion of its readers...
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Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
VPFA are now accepting abstracts for our 19th Annual Conference "Beaches and Borders in Victorian Popular Fiction and Culture". To read the full CfP and submission guidelines, head to: victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa-annual-...
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The utter horror that would be accidentally buying a copy of Silent Spring that has AI generated cover artslop...
An edition of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring book with AI generated cover artwork.
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The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Next week: join us for a brilliant first online talk of our autumn programme: Tabitha Stanmore @magicnotwitches.bsky.social, 'Storytelling in the Fens'. Tuesday 8 September, 19:00-20:30 BST on Zoom. Tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/storytelli...
Photograph of the Fens © Tabitha Stanmore
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Haunted Shores in Spaaace.
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
New #coastalstudies special issue just published – on 'Haunted Space, Story and Place'! My piece on container shipping sits alongside some excellent looking essays - lots open access. Many thanks to @karlbell.bsky.social & Brad Beaven for overseeing all this! journals.sagepub.com/toc/CLS/curr....
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Coming up this Thursday The 2026 Malcolm Dick Lecture in Midlands History 'Warwick Castle During the English Civil War' by Prof. Andrew Hopper Details below 👇
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Join us online this Wednesday for a celebration of some of the work being done by the wonderful members of Haunted Shores! – programme and registration info linked below.
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
**Call for book reviewers** As the Gothic Nature journal gears up for Issue VI (cfp linked), we're on the look out for people to undertake book reviews for the issue (draft deadline Nov 2026). If any of the titles listed below sound intriguing, get in touch!
gothicnaturejournal.com
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
So nice to see copies of this out in the world: A perfect winter beach read... should you prefer your beaches gloomy, chilly, and possibly haunted.
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Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Delighted to receive the hard copy of Jimmy Packham’s fabulous Coastal Gothic, 1719-2020 from our Cambridge Elements in the Gothic @dalegothic96.bsky.social @jfpackham.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
Coastal Gothic, 1719-2020 by Jimmy Packham
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Really looking forward to visiting @gihnyu.bsky.social on March 12 to talk about new book #IrishRomanticism @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Brontë Schiltz @bronteschiltz.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I’m very excited to teach a free online class on Robert Aickman and the art of the artifice ghost story as part of @romgothsam.bsky.social’s brilliant Romancing the Gothic series on 21 February! Join me: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...
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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Check out Walk Midlands latest newsletter for walks on the English midlands boundaries and borderlands; plus get to know The Derwent Press and learn about the lost Lapal Canal Tunnel 👇
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Walk Midlands Newsletter | Substack
Walk Midland's monthly round-up of new day walks in the English Midlands accessible without a car, for walkers interested in all aspects of the region’s people, landscape and history and other content...
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Christiane Kroebel @whitbyhistory.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Just the thing for @whitbynats.bsky.social and @whitbymuseum.bsky.social and has a section on Stoker, the seaside and lighthouses. Looking forward to reading it over the weekend holidays.
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Lnuonhorror @lnuonhorror.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I'm delighted to announce that I'll be co-editing a special issue of Gothic Studies: Arctic Gothic with Monica Germanà and Sara Wasson. Check out the CFP here: www.globalgoth.org/blog/arctic-...
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Arctic Gothic: A new cfp for a Special Issue of Gothic Studies - Gothic Association
An exciting new issue of Gothic Studies is in the making!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A Q. for detective fiction scholars! Do people have an opinion on whether or not discussions should refrain from revealing twists/whodunnit, if they can? I am writing about a Christie book and discussing the character who turns out to be the murderer (a fact irrelevant to my discussion!). Thanks!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Sound but unnerving advice from the evil looking toy in our eldest’s latest party bag.
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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Exciting update! ‘Summoned to the Séance’ is out next Thursday 12th December! 👻 Find it at @britishlibrary.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social @whsmithofficial.bsky.social and many more: shop.bl.uk/products/sum...
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
2 days until our online seminar with Dr Isabelle Gapp: join us on Zoom at 3pm (UK) this Thursday – details below!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Hi everybody: I’m excited to be able to share a new special issue from the Midland History journal on the ‘Haunted Midlands’ – all articles open access! Thanks to all involved! Please share with anyone who might enjoy spooky Midlands! www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/4...
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Midland History
Haunted Midlands. Volume 49, Issue 3 of Midland History
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Please share, as Haunted Shores hasn’t quite made it to the new place yet! The next Haunted Shores online seminar with Dr Isabelle Gapp — on reindeer, Sámi herders, & shipboard transportation in Canada — on Thursday 5 December, 3pm (UK). Info/registration here! haunted-shores.com/2024/11/26/h...
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Haunted Shores online seminar: Dr Isabelle Gapp, 5 December 2024
Haunted Shores online seminar series 3pm (UK time) 5 December 2024 Online (Zoom): link to be circulated ahead of seminar to registered attendees. We are delighted to invite you to the Haunted Shore…
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Project Servator — seemingly run by the animorphs
A yellow sign that reads: PROJECT
SERVATOR. Together we've got security covered. To help keep this area safe, we run regular
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
When you’re trying to feed the angry robo-dog from A Close Shave.
A tin of dog food whose label reads “adult dog with beef”
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The painting of this Barbara Steele-a-like at the top of the stairs at this b&b is definitely haunted, right…
A kitschy painting, hanging in a b&b stairwell, of a woman with dark hair, behind some foliage.
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Turns out you can produce a frantic panic in the eyes of your students if you start reciting Carly Rae Jepsen lyrics in an effort to analyse “Call me Ishmael…” “We thought you might start singing.”
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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
VERY exciting news! I’m joining the @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesOfTheWeird series this December with ‘Summoned to the Séance: Spirit Tales from Beyond the Veil’!👻 Join hands around the séance table for 14 classics & lost gems of fiction inspired by the spiritualism movement🕯️
Image of book cover of seance with hands around a table with candles and figure in cloak
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I always suspected this of sport...
Text from David A. Ibidson's article on MR James and golf: "It is the playing of sport which takes Parkins out of the safety of the university, and makes him vulnerable to gothic encroachments."
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A crisp misty morning as backdrop for a writing day about hazy and lazy gothic beaches: looking forward to getting all these stories talking to each other today.
A pile of books by Hugh Walpole, Agatha Christie, Florence Marryat, Robert Hickman, MR James, Sheila Armstrong, and Lucie McKnight Hardy
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
While I'm bumping into new people here, an intro 🧵! I work across gothic studies and blue humanities. My first book, Gothic Utterance (UWP), thought about the voices of the dead and their ethical imperatives in 19C US writing. www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...
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Gothic Utterance | UWP
Gothic Utterance explores the vital role played by haunted and haunting voices in American Gothic literature produced between the Revolutionary War and the close of the nineteenth century, discussing ...
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hello everybody! Having spent much of this week traipsing across the local fields to make the most of the November sunshine... I have finally traipsed into these other sunlit uploads! Will slowly get round to finding everybody again!
A photograph of a field and woodland on a sunny November evening.
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