@drmcraines.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool; interested in literature and psychology, crime fiction, horror, film and television adaptations, and Victorian realism (yes, I'm a little all over the place); dog mom; views my own; she/her
Clive Bixby, before and after the groomer 🐾
excitement of seeing my first published story in print pairs nicely with the dread of being perceived
out with @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 1st may💘
Morgan
24 April 2016-4 April 2024
At one of his frequent press conferences (because he loves being on TV), I'd love it if some reporter piped up with, "What do you say to people who call you a know-nothing narcissistic asshole, Mr. President?"
My hometown paper ☕️💅🏽
Cory Booker, winding down: "We need a greater love in this country a greater fight in this country a greater determination." And re: Strom Thurmond: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. The people are more powerful."
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Clive Bixby cheering on runners at the Liverpool Half Marathon 🐾🏃♀️
The older I get the more I think massively generalized writing advice like “NO ADVERBS!” or “always cut words that you can!” are only actually helpful during a very specific period in one’s education, and later are almost entirely antithetical to developing style.
📚 Postgraduate Open Weeks
Discover master's courses, research opportunities, and funding options!
🙋 In person: Wednesday 12 March
💻 Online: 24-28 March
More information 👇
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Texas. Where the lone star is a review.
We join with publishers, authors, booksellers & librarians to affirm that the White House executive order recognizing only two sexes constitutes censorship and has no place in a free society.
University presses strive to give voice to the breadth of human knowledge & experience.
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Ten days to go until Derby gets that little bit spookier for three days of the UK Ghost Story Festival! We have a fantastic line-up of talent joining us for three days of talks, panels, interviews, workshops and more... www.ticketsource.co.uk/ukghoststory...
Just re-upping this petrogothic CFP for the Monday crowd! Feel free to share!
I went looking for snowdrops today as it's Candlemas - they're supposed to bloom at Candlemas so they're known as 'Candlemas bells'. They're also called dewdrops, death's flower, Eve's tear, February fair-maids, and Mary's tapers. Round our way, they also came out in mid-January! #PlantFolklore
I am Master of Ceremonies at a new horror fest, HORROR IN THE HOGWILLS at Sedbergh, England's Booktown at Midsummer! Featuring Andrew Michael Hurley, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Priya SHarma, Robin Ince and many more! Tickets available from 8th February.
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
Where can you get Tudor Gothic, Women's apocalyptic writing, monster-f**king, deadly dance, folklore and landscape, doppelgangers, horror theatre, grave-diggers, horror-making on a budget, Poe and Mesmerism, Gothic tourism and more all in one place?
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...
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! 👻
#Hauntology #Hauntings #FolkHorror
This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
The only safe thing for my mind’s health is to shut my ears and go on with my work.
Set in houses that should provide protection but instead turn on their inhabitants, ‘Make a Home of Me’ is about all the ways in which our sanctuaries can turn into foreign places, casting us as strangers as we roam the halls
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If you are worried about conference fees... don't be
Anyone delivering a paper or session at a Romancing the Gothic conference pays nothing to attend and receives an honorarium.
Because why should we ask you to pay to work and kindly share your work with others?
This week marks 10 years of Schitt's Creek and as someone who accidentally wrote two books on it, this week's blog is a bit on why the show meant so much.
thenerdynotebook.substack.com/p/you-are-my...
We’re now waiting to go live on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. Tune in from 19.15 to hear us discuss Adam’s Nero Award win.
January in Croxteth Park
The Romancing the Gothic Conference 2025 is now open and waiting for your submissions!
A Warning to the Curious: Ghostly, Supernatural and Weird Tales
Marking the 100th anniversary of MR James collection of the same name!
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/06/c...
