Malcolm and the SPR join AC Wise, Dr Bethan Jones, and with more still to come.
Tickets for Writing the Occult: Seekers are now on sale, with more speaker announcements to come.
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Malcolm has been featured on the BBC documentary ‘Paranormal: The Girl, the Ghost and the Gravestone’, and has been in the Times Higher Education, Independent, Daily Mirror, and the Daily Star - and he's joining us on 30 May to talk about paranormal research, the SPR, and more!
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...paranormal religious & conspiracy beliefs + their relationship to personality & cognition. A previous editor of the Journal of the Society for Psychological Research, he currently sits on the Society for Psychical Research council & is chair of the Spontaneous Cases Committee. 🧵⬇️
A text-heavy graphic features the bio for Malcolm Schofield, plus his photo at right: he is a white man who wears glasses and is dressed all in black.
What's an occult search party without a paranormal researcher? Here's ours, for Writing the Occult: Seekers on 30 May:
@malcschofield.bsky.social is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Derby, where he teaches Parapsychology, amongst other things. His research interests span... 🧵⬇️
🚨 New BFS column for the weirdest of the weird music alert!
@vlatinalondon.bsky.social or @yvechairez.bsky.social perhaps?
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
Allll the gothic, quiet and folk horror good ‘uns! 🤘
Dr Jones will be diving into a fandom she's long been a member of - that of The X-Files - to explore the iconic 90s show's cultural impact.
Tickets for Writing the Occult: Seekers are now on sale, with more speaker announcements to come!
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A text-heavy graphic features the bio of researcher Dr Bethan Jones, who's pictured at right: she has short hair and wears glasses and a lip ring, dark flannel shirt with a black top underneath, and has visible tattoos on her chest and forearm.
More Writing the Occult news? Sure: Next in our party of Seekers assembling virtually on 30 May is @memorieschild.bsky.social, whose research explores how fans create content, built communities, and navigate ethical dilemmas around the media.
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How did she create this world? Come find out: we'll be online on 30 May for Writing the Occult: Seekers. Tickets now on sale, and more speaker announcements to come!
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AC's new novel, Ballad of the Bone Road, revolves around paranormal investigators Brix & Bellefeather. But both have hauntings of their own: Belle shares her body with a demon, and Brix has trapped the soul of his dead fiancee in the world of the living, unwilling to let her go...
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Super excited to have the acclaimed Nebula, Stoker, World Fantasy, Locus, British Fantasy, Aurora, Lambda & Ignyte Awards finalist & dark fantasy author A.C. Wise be in conversation with the Chief Ink Slinger - aka me - at Writing the Occult: Seekers on 30 May.
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Ready to see who's joining our party of seekers for the forthcoming edition of Writing the Occult? Here comes our first wave of announcements...
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I've had a running list of "my fun stuff for 2026" getting moved over to the next week's to-do list every damn week this year and haven't even started to think about any of it because burnout is too fucking real and I'm too busy avoiding all responsibilities 😩
Another great reflection here from Mr @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social, who's out here campaigning for real neurodivergent representation in fiction 💪🏻
Do you live in the UK? Are you registered to vote in next month's elections? If not, you'd better get a move on, as tomorrow is the last day you can register. Fortunately, it's easy to do online. www.gov.uk/register-to-... 🗳️
I turned 16 in 1980 so I remember the 80s and 90s clearly. And they were pretty shit (aside from music, the music was good—but the music of your teens is *always* good). Choking air pollution, smoking in public spaces, ambient sexism, homophobia and racism everywhere. And fucking THATCHER.
I was sitting mere feet away and was wondering what the smell was for far too long before I turned my head to see. I’d clearly make a great psychical researcher 🫣
Fire extinguisher going off while connected to wall.
No Fortean event would be complete without the unexplained and uncanny spontaneous discharge of a Conway Hall fire extinguisher... I was there and know what I saw. #StrangeCentral
Handy aside: mention of the SPR’s Richard Hodgson in the psychical research panel as a reminder that I have to stop researching and actually get working on the novel 🫣
We’re crossing the streams to close the #StrangeCentral day for @forteanlondon.bsky.social : ghost hunting in the archives with some of the 20th century’s most prominent psychical researchers, via @benmachell.bsky.social, @alicevernon10.bsky.social & Sarah Sparkes 👻
I bloody love FROM and you absolutely should be watching it.
The latest UFO/UAP “flap” coincides with the rise of technocrats, Trump & the Christian alt-right. Coincidence or by design? One of those behind Mirage Men, @markopilkington.bsky.social, dives into the modern wave of UFOlogy, which is more tech than abduction-based.
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Post-lunch at #StrangeCentral for @forteanlondon.bsky.social has us hit the forests: sociologists of science @drjamielewis.bsky.social & Andrew Bartlett say “Bigfooter” communities are moving from hunting to citizen scientists as the problem of habeus corpus keeps the skeptics loud.
Summer can still be the perfect time for folk horror, and this year we'll be marking the season with the fourth running of DARKNESS IN THE FIELDS: MIDSUMMER! www.eventbrite.com/e/darkness-i... #folkhorror #folklore #horror #writing #writers #authors #fiction #books #novels
Whenever at @conwayhall.bsky.social, must give regards to Mr L’s great uncle Hector, whose legacy is all over this place!
Commuter zombie-itis is a real plague upon the population
Bah! I live at the other end of the line, but hopefully this useless reply will put your request in front of more helpful eyes… 👀
