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Ghoul School: Vampires | From @ghoulguides.bsky.social

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I promise we wrote and recorded this before we had any idea about the South Park Labubu episode but if you watched that and wanted some more backstory, why not check out our latest episode!

YouTube video by The Ghoul Guides A History of Moral Panics: Folk Devils and Labubu | Ghoul Guides Association

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THEY’RE BURNING THE LABUBUS.

The Association is in session and we’re discussing the Labubu craze, the people crying demon, and the Gothic history of moral panics. Guest starring Lauren’s Labubus, obviously.

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YouTube video by The Ghoul Guides REVIEW: Wednesday Season 2 | Ghoul Guides Association

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#WednesdayS2 #booktalk #GothsAssemble

This evening’s meeting of the Ghoul Guides Association is Lauren’s thought on Wednesday season 2 so far, as well as some recommending reading if you’re looking for some more dark academia, mystery or weirdness.

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A coworker said to me ‘you watch horror right’ and I explained that actually, I don’t, @mazgoing.bsky.social explains the plots to me on the Internet because I get too scared.

YouTube video by The Ghoul Guides REVIEW: 28 Days Later franchise PART 1 | Ghoul Guides Association

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#horrorreview #gothsassemble

What do zombies have to do with masculinity, empire and identity? Everything, it turns out!

Listen now on your favourite podcast platform or head over to our YouTube for our review of 28 Years Later (2025) featuring special guest @kathleenh42.bsky.social and a discussion of the franchise so far

If you listened to our recent episode and felt a craving for Butter, it’s on the half price offer in Waterstones! A confronting exploration of femininity and consumption that will leave you uncomfortably hungry.

This isn’t an ad, we just can’t walk past a Waterstones without going inside okay.

In case you missed it, there’s a new episode up from us! Other podcast platforms are available - and you can also find us on YouTube.

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Have you read Asako Yuzuki’s ‘Butter’ yet? This week at the Ghoul Guides Association, @laurenjnixon.bsky.social reviews the global bestseller and recommends some more reading! #GothsAssemble

Ghouls, what does the sublime, the British Empire and custard creams all have in common? Pteridomania, baby!

On this meeting of The Ghoul Guides Association, Lauren deep dives the Victorian cult of the fern - and its Gothic influences.

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This month’s films include Aussie sensation Dangerous Animals and some old school Mexican horror.

27: So, You Don't Like Horror - June 2025 The Ghoul Guides Association · Episode

The June edition of our new horror movie round up for the easily scared, So, You Don’t Like Horror is now live on Spotify and other reputable podcasting platforms, as well as our YouTube! #GothsAssemble #HorrorReviews

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‘The Gothic at War is a significant and timely work. Drawing on a range of representative Gothic narratives, Dr Nixon convincingly interrogates how the trauma of contemporary warfare may be imbricated in ostensibly historical fictions, and how gentlemanly masculinity may be readily distorted by the apparent necessity of violence. Meticulously researched and lyrically written, The Gothic at War will prove a key text for both Gothicists and more general scholars of the Georgian period.’ William Hughes, Professor of Literature in English University of Macau

‘The Gothic at War: Masculinity in Conflict, 1760 – 1818' by @laurenjnixon.bsky.social‬ is an in depth exploration of how the Gothic literature boom of the late-eighteenth century was a response and reaction to the expansion of the British empire.

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I’m (Lauren) pleased to announce the safe arrival of my first child, ‘The Gothic at War’, weighing 75 pounds. It was a long and difficult birth but worth the effort.

If you want to support my sweet child, why not order a copy for you library: www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-got... #AcademicChatter #Gothic

Hey guys! Did you know Silvia Moreno Garcia is joining us for the RtG conference this year? Thought you might enjoy!

Minutes of recent Ghoul Guides Association meetings:
- moustaches, pros & cons
- human wet wipes
- rich people: cult?
- Lauren mentions Silvia Moreno Garcia, repeatedly.

Our review of Nosferatu (2024) and thoughts on Sirens (2025) inc. what to read next up now! open.spotify.com/show/24nPZ5p...

In case you missed it, the Ghoul Guide Association is back in session both in podcast form and on YouTube: youtu.be/2Dd-KiEzNoQ?... #HorrorChat #PopCulture #GothsAssemble

24: So, You Don't Like Horror - May 2025 The Ghoul Guides Association · Episode

Are you a would be horror fan, who loves something spooky but finds on screen gore sends you squeamish? Well, do we have thing for you. Check out the first ep of our new monthly series, So, You Don’t Like Horror?, now: #horror reviews for the scared shitless open.spotify.com/episode/7Cky...

(Re)Introducing the Ghoul Guide Association The Ghoul Guides Association · Episode

Hi, we’re the Ghoul Guides and we’re officially back from hiatus which means the Ghoul Guides Association is back in session. If you want to learn more about us and join or not so secret #gothic pop culture society, check out our trailer/explainer: open.spotify.com/episode/6gnz... #GothsAssemble

AND if you haven't checked it out already don't miss our new Lore Dump minisode (available on your favourite podcast platform). In the first episode, Lauren explains exactly how #Gothic came to be as we know it: spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/GmF5HR0CDEb #GothsAssemble #AcademicChatter

Title card for our episode. Text reads: "The Ghoul Guides Present: WITCHING HOUR: EARLY MODERN HUNTS. A Ghoul Guides Association Video." On a light pink background is a wood cut image of a witch and a devil figure both riding on broomsticks towards another woman.

New episode! This time Mary delves into the early modern era to explore the #Gothic history of witch trials, a King with a vendetta, a self-proclaimed Witch Finder General, and Lauren's dubious family history: Podcast: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gho...

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The heavy rain drowned our internet connection and prevented the upload of Friday's episode, but we will not be silenced! The first part of our latest mini-series, Witching Hours, is now available.

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Black and white photo taken in the woods, showing lots of trees, and in the foreground dead trees lying on the floor.

"And how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!"

Washington Irving, THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW

#31DaysOfHalloween

Photograph of the Pit & Pendulum bar in Nottingham, with the black name written on a red sign.

"My cognizance of the pit had become known to the inquisitorial agents-the pit whose horrors had been destined for so bold a recusant as myself-the pit, typical of hell, & regarded by rumor as the Ultima Thule of all their punishments."

Edgar Allan Poe, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

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‘It was not a haunting. It was possession and not even that, but something she couldn’t even begin to describe. The creation of an afterlife, furnished with the marrow and the bones and the neurons of a woman, made of stems and spores.’

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno Garcia

#31DaysOfHalloween

What better way to spend Friday the 13th than at Mayhem film festival in Nottingham! And managed to sneak in dinner with my Ghoul Guide partner in crime Lauren 🖤

Photo of a Jason Vorhees hockey mask on a playing card (Jason from the Friday the 13th franchise) held in front of a tall mayhem film festival poster.

“I've got to warn ya! You're doomed if you stay! Go. Go! […] You're doomed! You're all doomed!!”

#31DaysOfHalloween #FridayThe13th #Mayhem