I’m gearing up for this year’s 2025 #AScareADay reading challenge (a frightening story a day in October!). Some of the stories and tales I’m including aren’t that easy to find online and this is one of them! You can read this one now or wait until the challenge This is Rose Terry Cooke’s tale ‘MyContinue reading “My Visitation by Rose Terry Cooke”
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2025 Romancing the Gothic Call for Papers
I’m opening up the call for the 2025 Romancing the Gothic talk series! Each month has a theme but please interpret it liberally. We want a range of papers from different countries and traditions. We welcome people from all stages of their academic career and from outside academia. You can find a list of topicsContinue reading “2025 Romancing the Gothic Call for Papers”
Devils and Justified Sinners – 2 day online conference – 24/25th August
Romancing the Gothic presents its fourth annual online conference over two days – 24th and 25th August. The conference celebrates 200 years of James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner with a series of talks, events and workshops. You can sign up here The conference is designed to cover different timezones soContinue reading “Devils and Justified Sinners – 2 day online conference – 24/25th August”
Goths for Breakfast
It’s that time of year again! Romancing the Gothic is running it’s charity teachathon! A whole day of Gothic and horror classes and workshops. Choose your price. Come and go as often as you please. Talks recorded and sent out so you can catch up on any you missed! You can even sign up ifContinue reading “Goths for Breakfast”
Free Abstract Writing Workshop
As we do every year in preparation for the upcoming conference, Romancing the Gothic is offering a free abstract writing workshop to anyone interested. You don’t have to be coming to our conference to join us! We’ll go over some basics of abstract writing for humanities (in a British context). A lot of the informationContinue reading “Free Abstract Writing Workshop”
Romancing the Gothic 5 star reads (2023)
Every week Romancing the Gothic runs an online book group (everyone’s welcome as often or as infrequently as they like – use the contact page to get in touch if you’re interested!) We read short stories, graphic novels, novellas, novels, watch tv shows and sometimes play interactive games. At the end of each year, IContinue reading “Romancing the Gothic 5 star reads (2023)”
Top Ten Talks of 2023!
It’s that time of year! This is a top ten count down of talks from 1st December 2022 to 30th November 2023. These were the most popular talks on the YouTube channel. Have you caught them all? Don’t stop there either. There are lots of fascinating talks this year on a wide range of subjects.Continue reading “Top Ten Talks of 2023!”
2024 Romancing the Gothic Programme – Call for Proposals
I am currently putting together the 2024 programme (January – June) of talks for Romancing the Gothic. We hold talks every week at the weekend and run each talk twice (time zones permitting!) to make sure as many people from as many time-zones as possible can join us. Each talk fits in a one hourContinue reading “2024 Romancing the Gothic Programme – Call for Proposals”
Day 31 of #AScareADay – ‘The Girls That Follow’ by J. Choe
Happy Halloween everyone! We’re finally at day 31 of the ‘A Scare A Day’ challenge. I hope you’ve enjoyed the stories and the blogs! It’s been a lot of work but I’ve loved seeing everyone’s opinions (whether you joined the discussion here, on social media or just in chatting to me!) and the blog hasContinue reading “Day 31 of #AScareADay – ‘The Girls That Follow’ by J. Choe”
Day 30 of #AScareADay – ‘Girlfriend Material’ by M H Ayinde
Today’s story was published in Fantasy Magazine in 2022 and you can read it online here. The story opens with the revelation that you can now grow your own girlfriend. Just add water (and some liquid nutrients to enhance your desired characteristics). Our protagonist isn’t interested in a girlfriend though, she’s interested in transformation. AsContinue reading “Day 30 of #AScareADay – ‘Girlfriend Material’ by M H Ayinde”
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