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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Wrapping up #31days31books with Margery Lawrence's MASTER OF SHADOWS (1959). One of the best djs out there, designed by Val Biro. Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻

Dust jacket to Margery Lawrence's MASTER OF SHADOWS (1959). It shows a moon to the left, a bat, and a skull.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

For day 30 of #31days31books, here is Rosemary Timperley’s Child in the Dark (1956). Jacket design by Biro.

Dust jacket to Rosemary Timperley’s Child in the Dark: Three Haunting Novelettes (1956).

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 29/10/2025

#WritingCommunity! Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct! Submit free via Submittable 👇 nws.submittable.com/submit

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New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

(1/2) 🦇 A group of bats can be called a colony, a cauldron, a cloud or even a camp but with 1,500 bat species worldwide (and 18 right here in the UK!), we think it’s time to get a little more imaginative. Surely our brilliant bat species deserve some names as unique as they are? #NameThatBat

Comical illustrations of three different options to describe a group of noctules. Option 1: a chorus of noctules showing three bats dressed in a traditional white choir dress. Option 2: a screech of noctules showing two bats ‘shouting’ and one covering its ears. Option 3: a thunder of noctules, showing three bats and a dark cloud with thunder lightning.

Comical illustrations of three different options to describe a group of common pipistrelles. Option 1: a reliance of common pipistrelles showing three bats, one of which has a ‘bat spotting’ checklist with ‘common pipistrelle’ ticked off. Option 2: a flicker of common pipistrelles showing three bats around a lit candle. Option 3: a shimmer of common pipistrelles, showing three bats with a flick of light on their wings.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My students always find this story interesting when we discuss the painting at the beginning of my Polar Gothic course. 🐻‍❄️

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Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Coming very, very soon… Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!

The cover image of Victoriographies journal volume 15, number 3, 2025, titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. The image of an ornate’V’ is paired with a collage picture that includes an image of Marie Corelli with representations of ancient Egypt, mesmerism, provincial newspaper mastheads, Japanese text, and subtle references to twins.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

For #WyrdWednesday here's a thread of demon lovers! Elizabeth Bowen’s “The Demon Lover,” from The Demon Lover and Other Stories (1945). During WWII, a woman is haunted by a former love from WWI who keeps his promise to come back for her...

Black and white photo of Elizabeth Bowen.

Front cover of The Demon Lover and Other Stories.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Day 29 of #31days31books brings Louisa Baldwin's THE SHADOW ON THE BLIND (1895).

Front cover to Louisa Baldwin's THE SHADOW ON THE BLIND (1895). It shows a woman holding a book.

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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Wyrdlings! With Halloween looming large over us this week, it's time for our annual #WyrdWednesday Spooky Spectacular! Bring us ghosts, goblins, and ghouls; witches, werewolves, and will-o'-the-wisps!👻🧙‍♀️🧟‍♂️👿

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

For days 26, 27, and 28 of #31days31books here’s a trio of Margaret Irwin. 📘 Madame Fears the Dark (1935) 📙 Still She Wished for Company (1924) 📕 Bloodstock (1953)

Three books by Margaret Irwin.

Left: Madame Fears the Dark (1935)
Center: Still She Wished for Company (1924)
Right: Bloodstock (1953), a blue dust jacket featuring a man in a red coat riding a white horse.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

It’s #caturday and less than a week until Halloween, so here’s Simone perusing some shelves of supernatural fiction. 👻🐈‍⬛🎃

A black cat with a super curly tail looking at shelves of old books.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

For day 25 of #31days31books we have Cynthia Asquith’s THIS MORTAL COIL (1947).

Dust jacket to This Mortal Coil (1947). A man’s face looks from behind the title.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

For this spectral #BookWormSat here’s a thread of ghostly revenge stories! Cynthia Asquith's "The Playfellow" first appeared in SHUDDERS (1929). A family inherits an ancestral house, and the malevolent ghostly child who comes with it.

Black and white photo of Cynthia Asquith.

Orange cover with black bats of Shudders.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

A pair of Margery Lawrence books for days 23 and 24 of #31days31books. To the left is Ferry Over Jordan, published by Robert Hale in 1944. To the right is the two volume paper edition published by the Psychic Book Club (1944).

To the left is the blue and white dust jacket for Ferry Over Jordan, published by Robert Hale in 1944. To the right is the tan two volume paper edition published by the Psychic Book Club (1944).

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

For days 20, 21, and 22 of #31days31books here’s a trio of books by Helen Simpson. The Baseless Fabric (1925) The Woman on the Beast (1933) Cups, Wands and Swords (1927)

Three books by Helen Simpson.

Left: The Baseless Fabric
Middle: The Woman on the Beast
Right: Cups, Wands and Swords

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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

This week in #WyrdWednesday we invite you to our Wyrd Masquerade ball. Let's explore lore and history behind masks, costumes and disguises!

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a person wearing a mask with horns on their head .

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

For day 19 of #31days31books we have Margery Lawrence's THE MADONNA OF SEVEN MOONS, published in 1931. Here’s her presentation copy to Norah C. James and Margaret L. Goldsmith. This book shows how inscribed copies can take you down some wonderful literary and cultural rabbit holes. Thread/

Inscription from Lawrence to James and Goldsmith.

Title page to The Madonna of Seven Moons.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

For day 18 of #31days31books we have Mary E. Wilkins’s The Wind in the Rose-Bush (1903). The book is extra special because it includes illustrations for the supernatural stories.

The front cover to Mary E. Wilkins’s The Wind in the Rose-Bush (1903). The cover is light green with a winding rose bush pattern at the top under the title.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Day 17 of #31days31books is L. Adams Beck’s collection of occult stories, The Openers of the Gate (1930).

Dust jacket for L. Adams Beck’s The Openers of the Gate (1928). A white swan in the foreground with a snowy mountain range in the back. Shades of pink and purple.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

So glad to see these reviews find a new home.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Days 15 and 16 of #31days31books brings two collections by D. K. Broster.

To the left is the tan cloth cover of Broster’s A Fire of Driftwood.

To the right is the blue cover of Couching at the Door.

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

We are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm. Free! Online! All welcome! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This is a sneak preview of our poster image as we finalise details - it’s a coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson after G M Woodward from 1801 called ‘The Quack Doctor’s Prayer’ with a kneeling doctor praying over a box with a duck drawn on it. In the background there’s a candelabra and pink hangings.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Icelandic books on witchcraft and magic at The National Museum of Iceland and The Culture House, Reykjavík. #WyrdWednesday

An open book with ink writing. Icelandic books on witchcraft and magic at The National Museum of Iceland and The Culture House, Reykjavík.

An open book with ink writing and drawings. Icelandic books on witchcraft and magic at The National Museum of Iceland and The Culture House, Reykjavík.

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live! 1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

Image of 'The Empress' tarot card by Pamela Coleman Smith, depicting a figure with long hair, crown, and sceptre. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK.

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Broadview Press @broadviewpress.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The contextual materials in our NEW edition of A Room with a View include... ✅ Selected letters by Forster ✅ Contemporary reviews ✅ Images of Forster and key places in his novel & more! Take a closer look: buff.ly/i3MI7xt

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

For days 12, 13, and 14 of #31days31books here’s a trio of Clotilde Graves/“Richard Dehan” books. #spooktober 👻🎃

Three books by Clotilde Graves.

Left: The Eve of Pascua
Middle: The Man with the Mask
Right: The Third Graft

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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Harriet Prescott Spofford image below. For those who would like to read her #mystery stories: -- "In a Cellar": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/510 -- "Mr. Furbush": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/407 -- "In the Maguerriwock": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/521

Image of author Harriet Prescott Spofford in black, with a black veil on her head.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Day 11 of #31days31books brings us Edith Wharton’s GHOSTS (1937). #spooktober 👻🎃

Front cover of Edith Wharton’s Ghosts (1937). The cover is a lovely shade of deep blue.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I look forward to this conference every year! It’s an especially nice treat at the end of a semester teaching my Polar Gothic course. Highly recommend for polar fans and those who want to learn more about the polar regions. ❄️❄️❄️

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

British folk horror and occult characters to be on Halloween, a thread. 1. Mr Fisher from Robin Redbreast (1970). Catchphrase: “The study of religions is one of my many interests.” You’ll need: - Tweed trilby - Mutton chops - Cracked spectacles - A copy of The Golden Bough

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Elizabeth Gaskell’s "The Old Nurse's Story," one of the finest Victorian ghost stories ever written, originally appeared in the Extra Christmas Number of Household Words in 1852. #BookWormSat

Black and white portrait of Elizabeth Gaskell.

Front cover to the Penguin edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s collected Gothic Tales.

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

'See! Sweet and sound she sleeps in granny's bed, between the paws of the tender wolf.' -Angela Carter @signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat 's celebration of the short story! :-) 🎨Lucy Campbell

Artwork of a girl with long black hair embracing a wolf. Trees in the background. Blue, white colours.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

For day 10 of #31days31books we have Norah Lofts’s Hauntings: Is There Anybody There? (1975).

Dust jacket for Norah Lofts’s Hauntings: Is There Anybody There? (1975). In the foreground is a woman in a white dress surrounded by fog fleeing from a house in the background.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

For day 10 of #31days31books we have Norah Lofts’s Hauntings: Is There Anybody There? (1975).

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Day 9 of #31days31books is Alice Perrin’s Tales That Are Told (1917).

Dust jacket for Alice Perrin’s Tales That Are Told (1917). The center image is of a woman with a snake wrapped around her.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Day 8 of #31days31books is Dorothy Macardle's EARTH-BOUND (1924), a collection of ghost stories written while she was a prisoner in Mountjoy and Kilmainham Gaols from November 1922 to May 1923 due to her support for the Irish Republican cause.

Front cover of Dorothy Macardle's EARTH-BOUND (1924).

Title page of Dorothy Macardle's EARTH-BOUND (1924).

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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

After the sad demise of Dead Reckonings the team at @whatsleepsbeneath.com were kind enough to offer some of my older reviews a new home. I’ve just noticed that this one for the excellent Women’s Weird is now up on the site! www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/wome... @melissae.bsky.social #weird

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[Book Review] ‘Women’s Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890–1940’

Think of weird fiction and, probably without even realizing it, you will think of one thing: men. Whether it’s H. P. Lovecraft’s tentacled monstrosities, the decadent necromancies of Clark Ashton Smit...

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Clotilde Graves/"Richard Dehan"'s story "The Great Beast of Kafue" (1917) tells of a perilous journey to southern Africa to find the last surviving brontosaurus. #WyrdWednesday

Color illustration by Charles R. Knight of a brontosaurus submerged in water in the foreground. Another lighter-colored brontosaurus is approaching the water in the background.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Charlotte Riddell now has a blue plaque in Carrickfergus!

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Lisa Grimm @lisagrimm.com · 01/10/2025

IT’S TIME. We are back with #31DaysOfHalloween - highlighting a #spookybook (or several) every day. Kicking off with a new-to-us copy of a classic of the genre.

This House is Haunted by Guy Lyon Playfair, with two York Ghost Merchants ghosts

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

For day 7 of #31days31books we have Gertrude Atherton’s collection of supernatural stories THE BELL IN THE FOG (1905). That blue cover. 💙

Front cover of Gertrude Atherton’s THE BELL IN THE FOG. The cover is a deep shade of blue.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Day 6 of #31days31books is Margery Lawrence’s The Terraces of Night, her second collection of supernatural stories, first published in 1932.

Dust jacket for Margery Lawrence’s The Terraces of Night. At the top of the jacket is a pistol, then a skull, then a disembodied hand.

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John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I have a lot of books about ghosts and hauntings on my shelves. So, as we countdown to Halloween 2025, I'm going to pick a book and a ghost/haunting from that book and post a little bluesky sized summary of that on here. #DailyGhost

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Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Added to my library: 16 parts (seven in this photo) of the spiritualist series ‘On the Borders of Two Worlds’ by feminist and paranormal spiritist Elise van Calcar (1822-1904). I have an almost complete set, but I couldn’t resist these bindings. It was published in 29 volumes, from 1877 to 1905.

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Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

A shelfie of the 19th century female occult powerhouse: Anna Bonus Kingsford, Lady Caithness, Nizida, Emma Hardinge Britten and Florence Marryat. This time by daylight. Marryat also wrote the classic novel ‘The Blood of the Vampire’, published in the same year as ‘Dracula’.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Day 5 of #31days31books is Harriet Prescott Spofford’s THE AMBER GODS AND OTHER STORIES (1863). Her horror story "Circumstance" gave Emily Dickinson nightmares!

Title page to Harriet Prescott Spofford’s THE AMBER GODS AND OTHER STORIES (1863). A little white ghost holds the book open.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Day 4 of #31days31books is Alice Brown’s The Flying Teuton (1918) in its rare dust jacket. The title story reimagines the tale of the Flying Dutchman in a WWI setting.

Dust jacket of Alice Brown’s The Flying Teuton (1918) with a shadowy image of a boat on waves.

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