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Lecturer in English @UCC // Horror scholar // Autor of Haunted States: An American Gothic Guide Book and Teen Witches: Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture

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Occult Revivals: Cults and New Religious Movements in Horror Cinema - Miranda Corcoran - Zoom - The Last Tuesday Society Occult Revivals: Cults and New Religious Movements in Horror Cinema Β  Sinister cults and secretive sects have long been a source of fascination, particularly within the genres of horror and […]

Horror fans: If you're interested in the representation of cults and new religious movements on screen, I'll be doing a talk on cults in horror cinema on Sunday evening thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/occult...

16.02.2026 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yup. I've definitely noticed this.

11.02.2026 09:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cats!!

01.12.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy Halloween πŸŽƒ Our new interdisciplinary series, Manchester Studies in the Supernatural, launches today. If you work on ghosts πŸ‘», witches πŸ§™β€β™€οΈ, demons 😈, or other spooky beings, please do reach out.

@devilprof.bsky.social @mikkibrock.bsky.social @vetur.bsky.social β€ͺβ€ͺ@manchesterup.bsky.social‬

31.10.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I need this

31.10.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ha! This is such a William Castle strategy.

18.10.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel!

11.10.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 372    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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40 years ago today
Concerts and their atmosphere that are simply unforgettable.

Bad Brains, Wabash Hall, October 11, 1985, San Diego, California

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #badbrains #history #punkrockhistory

11.10.2025 03:32 β€” πŸ‘ 153    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice to finally see a bit of good news.

20.08.2025 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Literally the only thing all the people of Ireland can agree on.

20.08.2025 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Something about a camel and the eye of a needle ...

20.08.2025 07:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Except that PhDs can actually think, as opposed to simply producing responses based on data patterns. Tech bros are a fucking plague on humanity.

08.08.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If there's one thing I learned from reading Please Kill Me, it's that almost no one knew how to play an instrument or sing when they started their band.

08.08.2025 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If I had any musical talent, it would definitely be the name of my riot grrrl band.

08.08.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

PhD-level experts? Literally every student essay I've marked (and failed) that's been produced by AI reads like one of the following:

A) A spoiler-free IMDb review
B) Advertising copy
C) A vague non-apology by a celebrity on the verge of cancellation

08.08.2025 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Also the phrase "initial brassiere" is just hilarious. "Hello, I would like to purchase an initial brassiere" πŸ˜‚

08.08.2025 08:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You mean the profound mortification of going to M&S with your mum to get fitted for a bra and hoping to god no one from school sees you.

Why must TERFs cling to such saccharine, idealised notions of essentialist femininity?

08.08.2025 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ralph Wiggem β€œI’m in danger” meme

Ralph Wiggem β€œI’m in danger” meme

*Academics in early August

06.08.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 466    πŸ” 106    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 24
A medieval artwork, in colour, which depicts a scaly, brown devil (who has chicken feet, a tail and visible vertebrae) carrying Jesus away into the hills. Jesus is a pale-skinned man with brown hair and beard, wearing an orangey robe. He has a strangely stiffened posture, as if paralysed.

A medieval artwork, in colour, which depicts a scaly, brown devil (who has chicken feet, a tail and visible vertebrae) carrying Jesus away into the hills. Jesus is a pale-skinned man with brown hair and beard, wearing an orangey robe. He has a strangely stiffened posture, as if paralysed.

Jesus and the Devil, caught at a Coldplay gig

20.07.2025 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 8710    πŸ” 1143    πŸ’¬ 170    πŸ“Œ 71

If this wasn't like 2 months' rent...

07.07.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This might be Andrea's Christmas present this year.

14.06.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines β€” enough to power 280,000 homes β€” run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

10.05.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 7263    πŸ” 3403    πŸ’¬ 140    πŸ“Œ 417
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Tomorrow at the @tlrhub.bsky.social! Looking forward to this πŸ€“πŸ“š

23.04.2025 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The CFP List An academic call for papers database.

UPenn site has been updated, so you can now find our CFP for the Horror Studies special issue on women and horror here: cfplist.com/CFP/44405

@intellectbooks.bsky.social @melanieamarotta.bsky.social

23.04.2025 10:19 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

16.04.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 10127    πŸ” 3901    πŸ’¬ 228    πŸ“Œ 276

Academic-style essays (so like theory, citations, bibliography), but contributors don't need to be academics.

15.04.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am so excited to be working on this special issue of Horror Studies with @melanieamarotta.bsky.social
Send more cops, or, you know, abstracts.

15.04.2025 12:20 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0