Máiréad Casey

Reminder that our @irishgothichorror.bsky.social film club meets tomorrow at 7pm Irish time💀 We'll be discussing the 1963 Shirley Jackson novel adaptation, The Haunting!

‼️Next year, the REBPAF Final Conference will be held in Dublin.‼️
We invite submissions of papers & posters; the deadline is 15 Dec 2025. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to Ireland!📚
#REBPAF #MSCA #REBPAFConference #CfP #BookHistory
[See images for details & how to apply.]

@irishgothichorror.bsky.social

Poster for Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies online film club with image of a spooky house for the 1963 film The Haunting

Join us next Wednesday at 7pm Irish time to discuss Robert Wise's stunning b/w adaptation of Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House"

Cover of Introducing the Medieval Fox which features an illustration of a fox playing with a magpie.

'This is a delightful and informative book that will be of interest to scholars and a public audience.'

A lovely review of Paul Wackers' 'Introducing the Medieval Fox' in the most recent issue of Speculum!

Discover more about this 'charming' book here: www.uwp.co.uk/book/introdu...

#MedievalSky

Conference on screen music/sound:

🚨 CFP: Sound on Screen V
🗓️ 5–17 Jul 2026
📍 Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester UK
📩 Deadline: 1 Oct 2025

I had the pleasure of attending (and, on occasion, presenting at) several iterations of this fabulous event. A really collegial, supportive gathering!

So pleased (and honoured) to be part of this impressive line up for the autumn ❤️

@uniwalespress.bsky.social #Gothic #precarity #neoliberalism #GothicPrecarity

The 11.3 issue of FMH is live! 🤩🥳

This issue is devoted to the 30th anniversary of Lara Croft, with every article discussing the character and the Tomb Raider franchise!

You can read the editors' introduction, written by Amanda Phillips and Josef Nguyen, below:

online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

My monograph, ‘Theological Monsters: Religion and Irish Gothic’ coming out next year 🖤🧛‍♀️

My monograph "Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Recession American Horror Cinema" is in the Autumn catalogue of @uniwalespress.bsky.social. Here is the beautiful cover!

📯 Of course, we're also @imc-leeds.bsky.social!
Tomorrow at 7PM, Kaila Yankelevich (Bristol) joins the Medieval Animal Data Network (MAD) Roundtable on 'Wolves'. Drop by and learn new facts to impress your friends! 🐺📜
#REBPAF #MSCA #IMC2025 #BookHistory #ResearchImpactEU #Wolves

A cartoon illustration of a werewolf dressed as a college professor, using a quill pen to write a letter.

Horror Lex is hiring! In search of a part-time, paid clerical assistant to help us maintain the database. Love horror films? Got mad search skills? Obsessive about punctuation? We love that. Details on the blog:
horrorlex.com/blog/horror-...

Can't wait 🖤

Watched Eyes Without a Face for the first time the other day. Looking forward to talking about it on Wednesday! Can't believe I hadn't seen this gorgeously bonkers movie before.

If you want to join our discussion, it's free to register: www.eventbrite.ie/e/inghs-film...

Just watched Eyes Without a Face/Les Yeux Sans Visage in preperation for our @irishgothichorror.bsky.social film club on Wednesday! Gorgeously horrifying. Still plenty of time to register!

Happy dykes & supporters fill the space outside the gates of the Garden of Remembrance. There are many queer flags, but many Palestinian flags also.

Happy dykes & supporters fill the space outside the gates of the Garden of Remembrance. There are many queer flags, but many Palestinian flags also.

Happy dykes & supporters fill the space outside the gates of the Garden of Remembrance. There are many queer flags, but many Palestinian flags also.

Images of the crowd assembling for Dublin's Dyke March this evening.

I'm hosting a film club discussion of French classic horror Eyes Without a Face (1960) on Wednesday at 7pm. Join us through the link. 👀

A poster for our online discussion club of the film Eyes Without a Face. It is the poster from the movie, which shows a woman with a white mask over her face. All that is visible are her hair and eyes. There is info for the club at the bottom: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/inghs-film-club-tickets-1421909663079

We have a gorgeous poster for our film club event, which is this coming Wednesday 2nd July, designed by @maireadcasey.bsky.social - don't forget to register to get a link to the film and the zoom chat! For more information: www.eventbrite.ie/e/inghs-film...

A slight update to our CFP! Were please to announce that this year’s conference will have limited hybrid capacity! See our CFP for details!

On the left, the cover of the latest issue of The Journal of Gods & Monsters which has boxes with photographs of deities and monsters from around the world.

On the right, an image from the film THE EXORCIST featuring Reagan in full demon mode with a face full of wounds, whites of her eyes showing, her breath icy.

Bless me father, because the latest @jgodsmonsters.bsky.social is dedicated to THE EXORCIST. Essays on religion, science, sex, demons, and the 1970s, all #openaccess. @josephlaycock.bsky.social @mjcressler.bsky.social @rmclindsey.bsky.social
godsandmonsters-ojs-txstate.tdl.org/godsandmonst...

CFP: Call For Proposals: Gothic Blackness: Exploring Ethnogothic, New Black Gothic, and Afro-Gothic Themes in Literature, Film, and Culture

Special Issue of American Gothic Studies
Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona
Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26

For sale: Bluebeard door. Never opened.

Thank you so much, Keith! It was a wonderful time!

Registration is now open for our next film club discussion. We're watching the 1960 classic Eyes Without a Face.

For more info, and to register: www.eventbrite.ie/e/inghs-film...

We're highlighting some recent publications in LGBTQIA+ screen studies for Pride month. Message us if there's work you'd like us to share

Screenshot of Mickey Mouse holding a match and looking at his own ghostly shadow from 1929's Disney short "The Haunted House". Text reads: Screams in the Vault: Public Domain Horror in the Age of IP.

💀 Why are so many new #horror films based on #publicdomain works?

🔪 This #FridayThe13th (fittingly), let’s look at what this slasher surge says about remix culture & the role of the public domain.

More ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/13/s...

#PublicDomainDay #InternetArchive

We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video

"Nothing is true, everything is permitted.”

Horkheimer: “Truth is advanced” only when “human beings who possess it stand by it unbendingly, apply it and carry it through, act according to it, and bring it to power against the resistance of reactionary, narrow, one-sided points of view.” (1935)

Marriage equality 10 years on: 'I lost count of how many times I was called a pervert in my home town' Forcing a community to plead on doorsteps for their rights has had long-term impacts on many LGBT+ people, argues Maria Ní Fhlatharta

This is a necessary read - yes #marref was a great result, it showed the resilience, solidarity & fabulousness of LGBTIQ+ ireland but it also left a lot of hurt & trauma in its wake- having to ask your neighbour for what they took for granted was hard #speirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

The term is ending and we are starting to get things together. We've sent out an email to our mailing list with some exciting developments. If you joined our mailing list but didn't receive the email, make sure to check your spam. If you want to join our mailing list: eu.jotform.com/250497756893...