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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
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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
I guess nothing says "chemical death rain" like a new data centre.
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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
Ah: that's so nice of you to say -- I'm really glad you enjoyed it, and hopefully found it helpful. And best of luck with the funding bid, too!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The longer I've looked at this (I should stop looking at this) the queasier 'bursting' seems as a way to describe flavour. Oozing with flavour! Leaking taste!
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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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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
Sladja Blažan, Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America (UVP, physical copy)
Cover image for Sladja Blažan, Ghosts and Their Hosts.
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Kaja Franck, The Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature: Wolves, Woods and Wilderness (Bloomsbury, physical copy)
Cover image for Kaja Franck, The Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature: Wolves, Woods and Wilderness.
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Ruth Heholt and Joanne Ella Parsons (eds), Ghosts and the Gothic (MUP, ebook)
Cover image for Ruth Heholt and Joanne Ella Parsons (eds), Ghosts and the Gothic.
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Madeline Potter, Theological Monsters: Religion and Irish Gothic (UWP, ebook)
Cover image for Madeline Potter, Theological Monsters.
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Timothy Rideout, Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction (UWP, ebook)
Cover image for Timothy Rideout, Gothic Precarity.
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Natasha Rebry Coulthard, Gothic Mētis: Cunning Monstrosity, Shapeshifting and Subversion linking the Nineteenth Century to the Present (UWP, ebook)
Cover image for Natasha Rebry Coulthard, Gothic Mētis.
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Keith McDonald and Wayne Johnson, The Spectral West: Super-Nature and the Gothic in the Western Film (Anthem, ebook)
Cover image for Keith McDonald and Wayne Johnson, The Spectral West.
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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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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I am very pleased we're not the only ones haunted in this way: this guy - or his extended family - at moments I'm not working when I should be... Goading me back to the desk...
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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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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Thanks for checking it out: hope there’s enough there of interest!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I’m happy to send it your way if you just missed the free download!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Thank you! Hope you enjoy it!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
glad to oblige! and/or blame a surfeit of Christmas crackers.
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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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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
with all those errors, it's more like Guy de Faux-pas-sant, amirite!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
these are the worst! not just the measly turn-around time, but the impossibility of actually doing anything to footnotes in that software!
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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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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Thanks, @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social! Seatangled and all the other recent great work on literary coasts has been so formative to this work!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
For sure: it's something I'd definitely be keen to write more on (and Carson, too – those sea texts are just the best). I appreciate the kind words!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
ha! it is one of my pet *things* (and one that I'm conscious is not terribly widely shared...). It was also just a nice excuse to quote that amazing passage from Carson.
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
thank you – that's extremely kind – and thanks for the support!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
thank you!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Thanks, Hannah – and you! Amazing news on the permanent role: so glad something has come through. Hope it makes for a lovely start to 2026.
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Thanks @aksagal.bsky.social! As am I to work my way through that excellent looking 18C Studies special issue on coastal life and living!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Thanks @earlymodlancs.bsky.social – very kind!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Thanks, Jen! I hope there's something in it that you enjoy!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Thank you @factorygothic.bsky.social!
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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
Thanks, Dale! Hope any festive readers find something to like in it!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Thanks, Angela! By the way, @tsjharling.bsky.social – you should be able to see the contents for the Element now!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Thanks also to the (now expansive!) @hauntedshores.bsky.social network for the kind, lively environment where so many of the ideas in here were first tested out. Huge thanks in particular to @emilyalder.bsky.social, @giuliachampion.bsky.social, @joanpassey.bsky.social, @madelinepotter.bsky.social!
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I'm extremely grateful for a heap of support in getting this project together, especially from series editors @angelawright1794.bsky.social and @dalegothic96.bsky.social, who have been brilliant to work with.
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Authors I discuss include: Daniel Defoe (whose Robinson Crusoe is, I suggest, foundational to this mode of writing/thinking), Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith, Susan Hill, Hugh Walpole, Gaskell, Riddell, Stoker, Aickman, MR James, Adrian Ross, Frances Burney, Conrad, Oyeyemi, Alice Thompson – & others!
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