Making It Wyrd

The ‘I’ in Mogwai: Gremlins and the Abject. “I warned you. With mogwai comes much responsibility. But you didn’t listen.”  Gremlins is a horror film, but not for the reasons you think. The 1984 horror-comedy film Gremlins directed…

Christmas is a time for cheer and disgusting homicidal monsters. We have a blog post for that:
makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/2024/12/16/t...

The ‘I’ in Mogwai: Gremlins and the Abject. “I warned you. With mogwai comes much responsibility. But you didn’t listen.”  Gremlins is a horror film, but not for the reasons you think. The 1984 horror-comedy film Gremlins directed…

Christmas is a time for cheer and disgusting homicidal monsters. We have a blog post for that:
makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/2024/12/16/t...

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We may be a bit quiet on here for a few weeks while our social media person (@scarlettbutchers1.bsky.social) is busy prepping for PhD submission. Spooky things to come soon though 👻👻👻👀

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic Women from Nightmares: Vulnerability and Powerful Women in K-dramas with Soumili Hazra

If you missed this week's talk on powerful and vulnerable women in supernatural k-dramas... you can find it here

youtu.be/sBnTwqRdX3Q

I'm getting through the last months of my phd by making teaser trailers for it. I would urge you all to do the same

Excited to finally be able to share my book with the world!

Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga 💀⭐️

The book explores the relationship between celebrity culture and the Gothic in literature, media and popular culture.

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gothic-ce...

Do you enjoy k-dramas?

Do you enjoy the Gothic?

Do you enjoy powerful supernatural women?

Do we have the talk for you! This Saturday at 10am and 4pm British time. Online and free to access!

10 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

4 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

Finally beginning to get ideas for research I want to pursue after my PhD is over. Taylor Swift studies, the ecology of His Dark Materials, and ecophobia in Lorde's Solar Power need to watch their back 👀👀👀

An image from the game Undertale showing the words 'but nobody came'.

Been thinking about temporal pandemonium and gothic repetition in video games recently. What game does it best (and why is it @undertale.com)?

Recommendations We have an ever-evolving list of gothic media recommendations for you to look through, both classical and contemporary. Let us know if you think we should add anything extra to these lists, we&#821…

Pumpkins on every corner, maybe a skeleton, if you're lucky. But something's wrong. It's Halloween, but you don't FEEL it. But then, tears of joy in your eyes, you remember makingitwyrd have rec lists with all kinds of spooky media. Halloween is saved! 👻👻👻
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An old tradition ... Fine Folk or Follow Friday #FF: @treadwells-books.bsky.social @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social @sebbyb.bsky.social @philh.bsky.social @odavies9.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social @julianneregan.bsky.social @mjpcuervo.bsky.social @lazaruscorporation.co.uk @edkarshner.bsky.social

Recommendations We have an ever-evolving list of gothic media recommendations for you to look through, both classical and contemporary. Let us know if you think we should add anything extra to these lists, we&#821…

Pumpkins on every corner, maybe a skeleton, if you're lucky. But something's wrong. It's Halloween, but you don't FEEL it. But then, tears of joy in your eyes, you remember makingitwyrd have rec lists with all kinds of spooky media. Halloween is saved! 👻👻👻
makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/recommendati...

Poster for the 'Black Cat Dance: Grand Galop de Concert' by J. DeLancey The poster artwork depicts five black cats dancing round a blazing bonfire. In the background is a tree with a witch sitting on one of the branches and a bat flies in the sky in front of a full Moon.

Happy #BlackCatDay #BlackCatAppreciationDay all!🐈‍⬛

"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere" ~ Groucho Marx

Horror Scholarship for Halloween

www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/G/Glob...

The next Best Gothic Novel Ever battle is here!
We are firmly in the 21st century with this one...
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Vs
If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio
👻👻👻
Vote in the comments

Ferris Bueller and the Terror of the Mundane When putting the 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off into a gothic context your mind might go to the theory that Ferris is a figment of the perpetually anxious Cameron’s imagination (see a brea…

As we approach Halloween, it's the perfect time to read about the most terrifying thing in the world: daily life.

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The book cover of Strange Houses, a blue and pink floor plan with a bloody hand and cleaver.

A tale of murders, secrets, cults and floor plans... Strange Houses is contemporary urban gothic out of Japan and is the perfect October read!

episode 2 of our Pop Girlies and the Monstrous Feminine is here! Today we look at Charli xcx and the Abject.
Do not despair, this is the introductory episode on Charli - we have more to say!

CRYPTIDS AND CREATURES remain a long-term fascination for many, and that'll be the topic of the next WRITING THE OCCULT event on the 29th November! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th... #monster #monsters #creatures #cryptids

The books Ghostlore and Rebel Folklore.

Picked up these beauties by @icysedgwick.bsky.social after the Fantastic Folklore event on Friday. The TBR list is getting unreasonable 😅

An excellent night of folklore on Friday with @stonelands.bsky.social @icysedgwick.bsky.social and @occultaria.bsky.social! Now to keep our eyes peeled for stone megaliths, grey ladies and singular gloves...👻👻👻

A ticket for Fantastic Folklore at Lincoln Arts Centre.

Folklore on a Friday! Can't wait to hear this talk from @icysedgwick.bsky.social @stonelands.bsky.social and @occultaria.bsky.social as part of the Lincoln Book Festival

We may be bending the definition of novel a little bit. It's probably more of a novella or short story

A list of horror by Canadian authors to kick off October.

Everyone, get behind this if you're able to. It's going to be a brilliant, brilliant anthology!!

I will not piss on anyone’s chips, but as a project which celebrates the English gothic and the weird every day of the year, I sigh heartily at the start of October. Celebration of the dark and strange should never be calendar constrained. #October

The next Best Gothic Novel Ever battle is here!
Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Vs
The Tale-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
Vote in the comments!

As the back end of October is carnage, I'll be dipping into HALLOWEIRD over the next 18 or so days - sharing bits from the book.

Use #halloweird if you want to join in with your thoughts on this anthology, your photos and your favourite Halloween memories!