Professor @robertedgar.bsky.social shares an update on the myriad activities and impacts of the Hauntology & Spectrality Research Group at the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Research Group Snap Presentation afternoon.
#folkhorror #hauntology
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CFP: PGR/ECR Symposium
Abstract deadline: 22 Oct 2025
Info:
blog.yorksj.ac.uk/hauntology/c...
#Hauntology #Folkhorror #Gothic #horror #cfp @bloomsburyspectres.bsky.social
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We're at the York Literature Festival today π»
1pm. Intro to Folk Horror & Pop Hauntology (with Rob Edgar & Adam J Smith)
2pm. In Conversation with Olivia Issac Henry
4.30pm. York Hauntologists read The Withered Arm
7pm. Bob Fischer's Haunted Generation
#YorkLitFest #FolkHorror
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It's a great misdirect, beginning Rina's story in a 1960s commune, only for her to end up in a place where she's nostalgic for the relative normality of a cult compared to the weird, occult menace of Sorrow Spring. 1/2
#FolkHorrorFeb
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Who is Jimmy, where is he and what was wrong with his mum? Who, or what are the Distaff? And why are the community at Sorrow Spring trying to recruit young girls....?
Post your comments, thoughts, theories from your first week of #FolkHorrorFeb reading below! π»
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If you're already following #FolkHorrorFeb or would like to join in, you can read at your own pace of follow the schedule below π
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Excited to be on the editorial panel for this, check it out!
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Very happy to be on the editorial board of this new series from Bloomsbury. Do get in touch with the editors if you have ideas or proposals π»π¦
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You can read at your own pace or follow our reading schedule. All you need to get involved is to grab a copy of Sorrow Spring & post your reflections using #FolkHorrorFeb We'll share your responses with Olivia at @yorklitfest.bsky.social on 8 March.
More info:
blog.yorksj.ac.uk/englishlit/f...
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#FolkHorrorFeb starts tomorrow!!
The @yorkstjohn.bsky.social
Hauntology & Spectrality Research Group are counting down to their live interview with Olivia Isaac-Henry at @yorklitfest.bsky.social
on 8 March by leading a read-along of her novel Sorrow Spring & everyone is welcome to join in!
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Thank you!!
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Our Bloomsbury Book Series "Spectres, Hauntings & Horrors" is run in association with the Hauntology & Spectality Research Group based at @yorkstjohn.bsky.social.
Find out more about the group's research, or sign-up yourself, here:
blog.yorksj.ac.uk/hauntology/
#Hauntings #FolkHorror
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Our Bloomsbury book series examines those lingering revenants of the past & ghostly "lost futures" so central to the critical concepts of hauntology & spectrality.
Does this sound like your research? Then please, be in touch! π»
#Hauntology #Hauntings #FolkHorror
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Ten days of folklore, folk culture, and folk horror unleashed across the arts.
18th-27th April, 2025 - Brighton, UK π€π‘οΈπ€
Now it's dark...
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ghosts & dreams ~ eros/thanatos ~ unheimlich ~ noir ~ curios/a ~ art ~ decadence ~ liminality ~ criminality ~ beautiful-grotesque ~ nocturne ~ nature/supernature ~ feline familiars ~ ΟΞΟΞ±Ο ~ high strangeness ~ ΟΞΏΞΎΞΉΞΊΟΞ½ ~ pathology
Art, reading, writing, the thoughts from my head, folklore, folk horror, the macabre, the uncanny, the absurd. ADHD. Alt text enjoyer. Trans Rights Are Human Rights. They/them. Kate.
26 year old poet based in York. Winner of the V Press Prize for Poetry in 2020. PhD @ YSJ.
Co-host for Howlers Spoken Word Open Mic & Board Member for York Lit Fest.
(Adulteress, Querencia Press 2023)
Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance
Digital marketer. π» Author of fiction, fantasy, and sci-fi. π Editor, book reviewer, and beta reader. π§ Neurodivergent.
Adjunct professor, specialist in Gothic literature and media, usually pretty sleep-deprived. Bully your university library into buying a copy of βReligious Horror and the Ecogothicβ.
Author, poet and theatre practitioner. Writer of Sea Invisible about life with invisible disability. Blogging through 70 years of books and creepy houses. She/Her
Critical artist + researcher. Analysing AI's impact on climate, art, and technopolitics. PhD in critical tech & art. Programme Director of Interaction Design and Visual Communication at University of the Arts London. http://lnk.bio/wesleygoatley
Big machines // Writer, artist, design researcher // Author: SYSTEMS ULTRA: MAKING SENSE OF TECHNOLOGY IN A COMPLEX WORLD (Verso '24) // Before: Co-founder & director: Supra Systems Studio & Strange Telemetry
www.gsvoss.com // linktr.ee/gsvoss
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Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Science
PhD Science, Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Lived Experiences in Tech; Magic; Human Knowledge, Values, Culture, & Beliefs
He/Him/His
Curator of Digital Design at V&A. Trustee - The National Videogame Museum. Advisory board, Society for Computers and Law. Curator - Design and Disability open til Feb 26.
she/they
ndkane.com IM SORRY ILL FIX IT
18th/19th ct and self-help lit, Neo-Victorian, adaptation studies, biofiction, and teacher (Eng/Bio) in Potsdam (Germany), she/her
Climate crisis, books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. Shabby w/o the chic.
Eco-horror novella PHENGARIS out with @nefariousbatpress.bsky.socialβ¬
Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
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Bram Stoker & British Fantasy Award nominated author, illustrator from Bristol, UK.
ROOTS OF MY FEARS, Titan 2025
ITCH! Hodder & Stoughton 2025
FIRST DATE, Datura Books 2026
HAPPY HOUR, Shortwave 2026
CHILD OF MUD & CLAY, Angry Robot 2027
NoSleep Podcast.
Writing around & about folklore, the gothic, and disability. Haglet. Probably listening to Joanna Newsom. πͺΊ
Online course developer, writer and speaker. My company, Technology and Society, sponsors Atletico London FC (Tier 5, Eastern Region Women's Football League). techsoc.com.
Historian of archaeology, Co-Investigator of Beyond Notability @beyondnotables.bsky.social, Co-Editor (with Dr Katy Soar), Strange Relics (Handheld Press, 2022). Website: https://www.amarathornton.com/; Agent: @agentbal.bsky.social @mmagency.bsky.social
Almost retired German teaching prof. Probably a socialist, definitely a feminist. Most definitely ANTIFA!!! My youtube channel is: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrimmreader3649
Telly writer, story editor and geek. This is my account for the geeky stuff, especially TTRPGs. You may know me from my other roleplaying accounts, @FriendlyFiend on Mastodon, GeorgeP on assorted Discords, or from telly things I write/story edit.
