We’re closing in October and I’m preparing for our annual #AScareADay challenge. I’ll be putting up the full list in the next week but today I’m posting one of our upcoming stories that can be a bit difficult to get hold of in a readable copy. This is John Galt’s short tale of … well,Continue reading “The Buried Alive by John Galt (1821)”
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Goths for Breakfast 2025
Romancing the Gothic is running an online charity event to support Magic Breakfast, which provides school breakfasts for children who need them. The event is a day of online classes and workshops with academics, experts and writers. You can come in and out as often or as infrequently as you like through the day. YouContinue reading “Goths for Breakfast 2025”
CFP for A Warning to The Curious: Ghostly, Supernatural and Weird Tales
An ONLINE conference on 23rd and 24th August 2025 marking the 100th anniversary of MR James A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 10th April 2025 The conference is fully online and is open to scholars and experts from around the world. In 1925, M R James published his final collectionContinue reading “CFP for A Warning to The Curious: Ghostly, Supernatural and Weird Tales”
Top Ten Talks of 2024
We’ve had so many great talks at Romancing the Gothic this year. I’ve learnt a lot from our amazing speakers and, as always, I’ve particularly enjoyed exploring areas outside my own area of expertise: from Persian mythology to Pakistani folklore, from ancient Mesopotamian demons to Gothic ballet. We have it all! You can find aContinue reading “Top Ten Talks of 2024”
Romancing the Gothic Five Star Reads 2024
Romancing the Gothic has a weekly book group. Although there’s a meeting every week, people are welcome to join us once a month, once a year, or just whenever there’s a book they’re interested in! Do get in touch if you’d like to join us. You can see upcoming reads here. Every year I doContinue reading “Romancing the Gothic Five Star Reads 2024”
The ‘Scare a Day’ challenge – First Week Round Up
Last year, I did a blog for every single day of the challenge and I have learned from that so that now I am only doing a weekly round-up! I’d also like to open the discussion up to you as well. You can follow along with the hashtag (#AScareADay) on Blue Sky or Twitter andContinue reading “The ‘Scare a Day’ challenge – First Week Round Up”
The October #AScareADay reading challenge 2024
It’s almost that time of year again! Join us for the third annual #AScareADay challenge to read a creepy short story or poem every day through the month of October. Last year, I did a blog every day which almost finished me off so this year I’m going to put up some discussion questions eachContinue reading “The October #AScareADay reading challenge 2024”
‘A Night at Baptiste’s’ – An Extract from Matthew Lewis’ The Monk
This is another text that we’ll be reading as part of the 2025 ‘Scare a Day’ reading challenge, but you’re welcome to read it on its own. The story is an extract from Matthew Lewis’ novel The Monk. It was a common practice at this period to reprint summarised and adapted versions of popular GothicContinue reading “‘A Night at Baptiste’s’ – An Extract from Matthew Lewis’ The Monk“
My Visitation by Rose Terry Cooke
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”
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”
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