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
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
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!
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Now that all nominations have been received and verified, it is a pleasure to announce the longlists for the two IGA book Prizes: www.globalgoth.org/blog/longlis...
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.”
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.
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✨️ 📚️ 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!
Congrats to those longlisted for the International #Gothic Association Book Prizes 2026 (and to our own @dalegothic96.bsky.social)! @igagoths.bsky.social www.globalgoth.org/blog/longlis...
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
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!
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Heading to the IGA this summer! Some much needed time with the goths in these dark times! 🖤 @igagoths.bsky.social
A final reminder to @igagoths.bsky.social members that the call for nominations for the IGA Book Prizes closes soon! www.globalgoth.org/blog/call-fo... #gothic
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/
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:
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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.
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
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...
On request, the deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to 13 February, so you have two more weeks to get yours in!
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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
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.
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
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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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/
Join @gothicstudies.bsky.social as our new Assistant Editor!
Deadline Monday 9th March.
Annual honorarium of £200.
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Enjoyed chatting #bodyhorror to @radiotimes.bsky.social on the occasion of the release of #TheBeauty. www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/ne...
Just out in the Horror Studies book series! www.uwp.co.uk/book/urban-l... #horror #horrorstudies #newbook #urbanlegends @uniwalespress.bsky.social
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
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Deadline for abstracts is 30 January 2026
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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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