One of the things I love most about convention panels and presentations - including excellent digital conferences like #RomancingTheGothic is how you get to think on and turn over a particular topic from multiple angles, and i just find it so inspiring and so richly rewarding creatively

Always great to be checking out a scholarly presentation and hear "this picture is the worst thing I have ever seen with my human eyes."

#RomancingTheGothic

(NSFW - check content notes)

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In honor of today's #MorbidMarch prompt, I recommend the #RomancingTheGothic talk on The Bone Wars

Hey! You! Goths for Breakfast is TOMORROW! TOMORROW!! TOMORROW!!!

Join #RomancingTheGothic for an online teach-a-thon to help feed hungry kids

You can choose the ticket price that fits your budget. And talks are recorded, so if you can't attend live, you can check them out on your own later.

me: i have been in horrible pain the past few weeks but i've got all my notes for my #RomancingTheGothic presentation, let's just collate this. it's been a while since i used Prezi, but given how visual my presentation is, that will be fun!

Prezi: MAKE YOUR PRESENTATION WITH AI

me: get fucked.

Thanks #HorrorWritersChat!

On February 28th, you can join me for a writing workshop dive into the dark depths of haunted lakes — part of the #RomancingTheGothic charity teach-a-thon to raise money to feed hungry kids.

Check out the amazing lineup of talks and get your ticket here 👇

Today's my birthday, which is as good an excuse as any to remind you that I have four #RomancingTheGothic talks available to watch for free.

Links below, but first!

A shameless plug for my fifth talk, also free, coming in March 👇
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Portrait of Mary Roberts Rinehart c. 1921 wearing pearls and a flowy, elegant dress and surrounded by plants

Black and white illustration of a woman sitting with her eyes closed and her arms stretched out on the table in front of her from the serial story "Sight Unseen" in Everybody's Magazine, June 1916. Author, Mary Roberts Rinehart; illustrator, Frederic Dorr Steele. [Caption: MISS JEREMY CAME OUT OF HER TRANCE WEAK AND LOOKING EXTREMELY ILL.]

Cover of the Penzler edition of the novel The Red Lamp by Mary Roberts Rinehart, showing an illustration of a red oil lamp and a hand reaching toward it

Article Clipping featuring a photograph of Mary Roberts Rinehart in pearls and an evening gown and the title "Mary Roberts Rinehart's PSYCHIC ADVENTURES"

March 7th — I'm giving a free online talk for #RomancingTheGothic on Mary Roberts Rinehart, "the American Agatha Christie," with special focus on her supernatural mysteries and the inspirations behind them

Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/roman... or www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

Honored to talk about Pat Barker’s Another World for Romancing the Gothic—what an experience!

#PatBarker #AnotherWorld #RomancingTheGothic #Gothic #TraumaFiction #BritishLiterature

This week's #WyrdWednesday theme is goblins, so here's an old video of me reading my goblin story, "The Sentinel," for a #RomancingTheGothic author showcase

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Select tickets – The Ghost is Upper-Caste: Haunting, Caste Aesthetics, and Violence in South Asian Horror with Ishan Tripathi – Zoom The Ghost is Upper-Caste: Haunting, Caste Aesthetics, and Violence in South Asian Horror with Ishan Tripathi – Zoom, Sat 29 Nov 2025 - Our series of talks is funded exclusively by donations. The talk...

Woke up early to catch the first round of Ishan Tripathi's talk for #RomancingTheGothic, and I'm so glad I did. Really enjoying it.

If you can come to the second round, I recommend it 👇

www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

Here are four talks I’ve done for #RomancingTheGothic

Gloomy Sunday
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“Spiritualistic Science” of Thomas Lynn Bradford
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Pied Piper
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Lost Children of the Alleghenies
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If you're in the mood for something morbid this #InternationalMusicDay, might I suggest my #RomancingTheGothic talk on "Gloomy Sunday" (also known as the Hungarian Suicide Song)

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Well, I know this is going to interest at least some of the people from RtG. There's probably going to be some crossover between the #PoemsAbout prompts and the #RomancingTheGothic talks this month that will be worth exploring. Two amazing communities I'd love to see bleed into one another.

Romancing the Gothic Romancing the Gothic – Romancing the Gothic runs free-to-access talks on Gothic, horror, folklore and supernatural topics. We run weekly talks and a b...

You can find upcoming #RomancingTheGothic talks on Ticket Tailor www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

or Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/romancing-...

I was a bit naughty and just listened to day 4's story youtu.be/j-_bVePx8yk?.... Though on what will be day 4, I'm off to Haworth and the Brontë museum (hopefully a good enough reason to read out of sequence) #AScareADay #RomancingTheGothic

these #RomancingTheGothic talks are a bad influence on how I spend my Sundays. this morning I started watching a documentary from Papa New Guinea on cannibalism trails (late 80s) and this afternoon planning a trip to Haworth - going to the Bronte parsonage / graveyards while the weather is ok.

You can find my Lost Children of the Alleghenies talk on the #RomancingTheGothic YouTube channel
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They all look excellent. Thank you!

#RomancingTheGothic saving the day by saving me from the horror of the boredom of feeding myself.

Classics: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James - The Gothic Library M. R. James is widely considered the father of the modern ghost story. He was a medievalist scholar and a provost at Cambridge and Eton College in the early twentieth century. He made a hobby out of w...

New blog post! Check out my thoughts on Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, inspired by the recent #RomancingTheGothic conference:

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Getting settled in for tonight's RtG talk on the lost children of the Alleghenies with @braegrosz.com ...got my snacks ready! #RomancingTheGothic

There’s still time to get a ticket for the second round of my #RomancingTheGothic free, online talk about The Lost Children of the Alleghenies 👇🏻

I’m giving a free, online talk about this story for #RomancingTheGothic tomorrow at 4pm BST (11am Eastern) and 9pm BST (4pm Eastern) bsky.app/profile/brae...

Select tickets – The Lost Children of the Alleghenies with B. Rae Grosz – Zoom Our series of talks is funded exclusively by donations. The talks are free to access but if you can support the project and do ...

And Saturday, September 6th at 9pm BST (4pm Eastern)

Ticket Tailor: www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-lost-c...

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In the foreground there is a crosstitch of a trad New England house being attacked by a flying saucer. In the background there is a lecture slide featuring an MR James quote.

Tuned into the #romancingthegothic #warningtothecurious conference hosted by @romgothsam.bsky.social with a lecture on food and the Gothic in the Caribbean.
Doing an appropriate crosstitch as I listen...

Brilliant first day at The Warning to the Conference organised by Romancing the Gothic @romgothsam.bsky.social

#thewarningtothecurious #romancingthegothic

Definitely adding Eleanor Scott to my TBR, thanks to Sontje Schulenburg's talk "Overshadowed by M. R. James: The Supernatural Fiction of Eleanor Scott" #RomancingTheGothic #WarningToTheCurious

Beyond the Scythe: Folklore to screen - the evolution of the Jeoseung Saja Linds Williams joins us for this talk on the Korean 'grim-reaper'

If you're into supernatural kdramas, you might enjoy the talk I'm doing this Saturday at 10am and 7pm UK time for #RomancingTheGothic about Korean Grim Reapers 🔥

Beyond the Scythe: Folklore to screen - the evolution of the Jeoseung Saja

Date: 28 jun • 10:00

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...

'A Dead Man's Eyes': Rethinking Gendered Tropes of Grammar in the Jamesian Weird Through Sound

My busy summer continues with a paper for the #RomancingTheGothic online conference on August 23rd and 24th on #MRJames and short ghost/gothic fiction.

My paper title is “'A Dead Man's Eyes': Rethinking Gendered Tropes of Grammar in the Jamesian Weird Through Sound”.

Promises to be a great event.