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.

Coastal Gothic, 1719-2020 by Jimmy Packham

Delighted to receive the hard copy of Jimmy Packham’s fabulous Coastal Gothic, 1719-2020 from our Cambridge Elements in the Gothic
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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...

Really looking forward to visiting @gihnyu.bsky.social on March 12 to talk about new book #IrishRomanticism @universitypress.cambridge.org

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...

Thanks for checking it out: hope there’s enough there of interest!

I’m happy to send it your way if you just missed the free download!

Thank you! Hope you enjoy it!

glad to oblige! and/or blame a surfeit of Christmas crackers.

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with all those errors, it's more like Guy de Faux-pas-sant, amirite!

these are the worst! not just the measly turn-around time, but the impossibility of actually doing anything to footnotes in that software!

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.

Thanks, @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social! Seatangled and all the other recent great work on literary coasts has been so formative to this work!

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!

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.

thank you – that's extremely kind – and thanks for the support!

thank you!

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.

Thanks @aksagal.bsky.social! As am I to work my way through that excellent looking 18C Studies special issue on coastal life and living!

Thanks @earlymodlancs.bsky.social – very kind!

Thanks, Jen! I hope there's something in it that you enjoy!

Thank you @factorygothic.bsky.social!

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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.
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Thanks, Dale!

Hope any festive readers find something to like in it!

Thanks, Angela!

By the way, @tsjharling.bsky.social – you should be able to see the contents for the Element now!

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!

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.

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!

The main sections of the Element look at: the seaside, tourism, and intra-archipelagic travel; war and conflict on the coast; and migration and coastal landfall. A final section looks at the significance of lighthouses in the coastal gothic tradition.