GOTHICA 🦇

This. Happening today.
Expect sprites.

A big thank you to @dreframss.bsky.social for a very fun session tonight on Video Game Gothic 🎮

If you missed it, be sure to catch the recording on our blog in a few weeks!

As always, thank you to our attendees & we hope to see you at the next one! 🦇

Our Video Game Gothic session is happening tonight @5pm with @dreframss.bsky.social 🎮

DM us to join!

We can't wait! Looking forward to the game demo 🎮

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I've done a little casual gaming this morning, playing some Ghosts n Goblins ahead of my talk this evening as part of @gothicauob.bsky.social's seminar series. It really is one of the toughest games ever made. Yeesh!

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Don't miss Video Game Gothic tomorrow! 🎮

🗣 Dr Efram Sera-Shriar
🕔 5pm (BST)
📍Zoom

Efram is interested in the gothic, horror & occult. His most recent book, Psychic Investigators (2022), examines histories of anthropology & Modern Spiritualism during the late Victorian era.

Tomorrow! I hope you can join the fun.

Manifesting and Visualising the Ghost Child - Dr Jen Baker - Zoom This talk examines the transformation of the ghost-child figure from oral folklore and legends to their literary incarnations in culture

Join me online with the Viktor Wynd museum on 26th October, 8pm (GMT) for a talk on "Spectral Embodiments: Manifesting and Visualising the Ghost Child" 👻🖤

LOADS of other amazing talks available throughout the year too; check out The Last Tuesday Society!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manifestin...

Sign up for this week and next week’s online #Halloween #Gothic events with @gothicauob.bsky.social and @cncsi.bsky.social 🎃⬇️

Session Thirty Seven: Video Game Gothic We are especially excited to announce that our first Gothica session of the 2025/26 academic year will be Video Game Gothic with our special guest speaker Dr Efram Sera-Shriar on Zoom on Thursday 2…

Less than a week to go until our Halloween special with @dreframss.bsky.social 👻

🎮Video Game Gothic
📆Thurs 23rd Oct
🕔5pm (BST)
📍Zoom

📚Reading: uobgothica.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/s...

🕹️Try out an exciting game emulator for Ghosts n Goblins here: www.retrogames.cc/arcade-games...

DM to join!

Less than a week to go! Can't wait for Video Game Gothic🎮with @dreframss.bsky.social 🎉
Check out this really cool game emulator where you can try out Ghosts & Goblins here: www.retrogames.cc/arcade-games...

DM @gothicauob.bsky.social to join 🦇

A reminder to sign up for our below #Gothic #Halloween events with @gothicauob.bsky.social and @cncsi.bsky.social - tis the spooky season! 👻 ⬇️

Exciting news! Join @gothicauob.bsky.social for 👾 Video Game Gothic 👾 with our special guest speaker @dreframss.bsky.social on Zoom on Thursday 23rd October 5.00pm - 6.30pm (UK). As an expert in occulture, Efram's talk will explore issues of video game censorship during the 1980s ‘Satanic Panic’ ⬇️

I'm super excited about my upcoming talk for @gothicauob.bsky.social. The full title for my talk is: "Battling Satan in Your Underpants: Censoring Capcom’s Ghosts ‘n Goblins Videogame during the Age of American Satanic Panic"

The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️

👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.

🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...

We're so excited for this! 👾🎮

Session Thirty Seven: Video Game Gothic We are especially excited to announce that our first Gothica session of the 2025/26 academic year will be Video Game Gothic with our special guest speaker Dr Efram Sera-Shriar on Zoom on Thursday 2…

I'm delighted to be delivering a talk on 23 Oct 2025 btwn 5–6.30pm (BST) for @gothicauob.bsky.social

My talk is titled: ‘Battling Satan in Your Underpants: Censoring Capcom’s Ghosts ‘n Goblins Videogame during the Age of American Satanic Panic’

Details 👇
uobgothica.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/s...

A dark event poster titled "Gothica: Video Game Gothic" with Dr. Efram Sera-Shriar. Red text and dripping blood adorn the upper part. Below is pixel art scenery depicting a gothic landscape with a skull and horns. Event details show a Zoom session on Thursday, 23rd October, from 5:00 to 6:30 pm BST. Contact @uobgothica@gmail.com

It's officially spooky szn! 👻

We're back 😈

🎮 Video Game Gothic
🗣 Dr Efram Sera-Shriar
📆 Thurs 23rd Oct
🕔 5pm (BST)
📍Zoom

Efram is an Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen. He is currently working on representations of occulture in video games from late 70s & and mid-90s.

DM to join 👾

YouTube video by Gothica UoB Occult Art Gothic with Dr Emma Merkling.

The recording of my @gothicauob.bsky.social talk on nature, horror, occultism, beauty, gender and Victorian art has been uploaded to YouTube! youtu.be/cRWhEOjMfMc?... watch along for more on these themes and for my recent work on Annie Swynnerton’s magnum opus “Oreads” (1907)

We love this 🖤 keep the spooky season going!

My way to enjoy summer season: finding magnificent cookbooks, cooking spooky recipes, reading, having a lots of coffee and crocheting until the season changes...
Thank you for the inspiration @gothicauob.bsky.social @dremilyvincent.bsky.social

An art image of five naked figures interwined with a blue sky and clouds in the background. The figures appear to be in the ocean with a faint small half rainbow in the background.

TONIGHT our final session before the summer break!

🗣 Dr Emma Merkling
🖼️Occult Art Gothic
🕐 6pm
📍Zoom

Emma is an art historian working on late 19th & 20thC British art & history of science. Her focus is on women artists, ecology, alternative science, spiritualism & occultism

DM to join!

Our last session before we retreat into the Gothic shadows 👀 not to be missed!

🗣 Dr Emma Merkling
🖼️Occult Art Gothic
📅Thurs 19th June
🕐6pm - 7.30pm
📍Zoom

You can find out more about Emma's artwork on our blog ⬇️

uobgothica.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/s...

🏛️Today - guided tour of @morethanadodo.bsky.social with John Holmes & Birmingham’s 19CC
🦠Weds - Disease and Narrative workshop I’m hosting @unibirmingham.bsky.social with @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social & the 19CC
🎨Thurs - Occult Art @gothicauob.bsky.social with @emmamerkling.bsky.social

Don't miss 'Occult Art Gothic' next Thursday 🖼⬇️ with Dr Emma Merkling 🙌

DM to join 📧

Join us next Thursday 19th at 6pm (BST) with the amazing @emmamerkling.bsky.social for Occult Art Gothica! 🖼️ 🎨 🦇 🔮 ⬇️

Don't miss 'Occult Art Gothic' with @emmamerkling.bsky.social next month!

As an art historian, Emma will be focusing on Gothic British art 🖼️🖤 DM @gothicauob.bsky.social to join 👇
📅Thurs 19th June
🕐6pm - 7.30pm
📍Zoom

A gothic art picture of an occult symbol, below this, two skulls on a red tablecloth with candles behind them, creating a mysterious atmosphere. Text: Gothica Occult Art Gothic Guest speaker Dr Emma Merkling Zoom Thursday 19th June 6.00pm - 7.30pm (BST). Email or tweet for link uobgothica@gmail.com @Gothica_UoB

Don't miss our last session before the un-Gothic summer approaches‼️

🗣 Dr Emma Merkling
🖼️Occult Art Gothic 👁️
📅Thurs 19th June
🕐6pm - 7.30pm
📍Zoom

Emma will look at Gothic British art, the ‘artist-as-witch’, (un)gendering & occultural approaches to art history.
Dm to join!

Just a few hours to go until 'Children's Horror Gothic' 🧒😱 6pm BST, Zoom

DM to join!

Prof. Neil Martin's book on children & their responses to Horror film will be out in a few weeks 🎉

Don't miss our session tonight on "Children's Horror Gothic" with Xanthe Pajarillo, who will also be discussing the types of horror films children enjoy🩸