Derek Johnston

And the cover for Nigel Kneale and Horror is now up on the @livunipress.bsky.social website! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... @bronteschiltz.bsky.social @dianearodgers.bsky.social @davidcottis.bsky.social @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social

👻 Up to 80% off selected titles in the Halloween sale from @bigfinish.bsky.social , including some titles I had ghoulish fun working on. 🎃 Click bgfn.sh/halloween2026

📣Calling UK-based Curators and Event Producers - Pitch to Cinema Rediscovered 2027! As part of our Other Ways of Seeing initiative, supported by BFI awarding funds from National Lottery, we’re looking for proposals involving new restorations. Apply by Mon 11 January 2027 via the link in bio.

This is the only real news story that matters today, with a strong sense of inevitability that this is how many of the people reading it will die in the decades ahead

WE'RE HIRING! @ojcollective.bsky.social is advertising for an Administrative Officer - full time, UK-based remote work, supporting a fast-paced team at a really exciting organisation. Please do share with anyone who might be suitable for this kind of work! #openaccess #library #libraries

Do I know any art historians specializing in 19th C. European art to help me out on a blu ray featurette? Or if you know one, want to forward this to them?

Christmas is the perfect time for a spooky tale, and this year TALES OF FESTIVE FEAR will be bringing the tradition to life with its online event! www.eventbrite.com/e/tales-of-f... #horror #christmas #festive #xmas #story #stories #reading #readings

Trash Gordon

Good morning! Just jumping on to say you can now watch the entirety of 1980 anthology series Hammer House of Horror for free on ITVX. Go straight to 'The House that Bled to Death' and 'The Two Faces of Evil' 👌...

It's here! The full line-up for the UK Ghost Story Festival is out there now, and we've got some very exciting workshpps, talks, interviews and more coming your way! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events-works... #ghost #ghosts #ghoststory #ghoststories #festival #festivals #Derby #Derbyshire

Interested in pursuing a funded PhD in Arts and Humanities at the University of Stirling? Our AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award competition is now live. Come study with us! www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

The time Sky TV put out a call for "a British Buffy"

Horror and Disability is now out from the Horror Studies book series! Huge congrats, @drdarrengray.bsky.social 👏👏👏 www.uwp.co.uk/book/horror-... #horror #horrorstudies #newbook @uniwalespress.bsky.social

The new episode of Telefantasy Time Jump is out now, free wherever you get your podcasts! Join @lizbethmyles.bsky.social and I as we marvel at the joy of 1974's Play for Today: Penda's Fen. www.patreon.com/TelefantasyT...

I'm giving a talk tomorrow night on Tradwives and weaponized nostalgia in our pop culture of the last 50 years through an unlikely trilogy of feminist horror texts: The Stepford Wives (1972), The Handmaid's Tale (1985), and Yesteryear (2026). It's streaming for free if you're interested!

There’s up to 50% off selected releases in the “Doctor Who: The Lost Stories” range from @bigfinish.bsky.social, including some I produced work for. Offer ends: 23:59 (UK Earth time) 11 October 2026. www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/doc...

Hey, I host a thoughtful, funny podcast called The Power Of a Book where I chat to interesting people about their most loved childhood books. It is in support of the Children’s Book Project which works to gift free books to children who have none of their own.

Looking forward to chatting about the History of Gothic Fiction with @davemusson.bsky.social at #Kenilworth Books on Tuesday 27th Oct 6-7pm! A free event but spaces need to be booked: www.kenilworthbooks.co.uk/event/histor...

It's alive! The long-awaited issue #19 of the Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies is now available on our website. Huge thanks to our contributors for making this such an amazing issue. irishgothicjournal.net/latest-issue...

We are very pleased to open our first public call for Expressions of Interest for individual journals to join OJC! Are you a publisher or journal team with a specific journal that you'd like to nominate to join the OJC collection? Apply by Oct 30th! www.openjournalscollective.org/news/express...

Christmas is coming... and so is another spine-tingling Ghost Story from Mark Gatiss. ❄️ This year, Martin Freeman and Jim Broadbent lead the cast of The Bride's Chamber, based on one of Charles Dickens's darkest tales. https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/fantasy/mark-gatiss-ghost-story-2026-newsupdate/

Just a quick reminder that there will be a launch event for Cold City and Hot War 2nd eds, hosted by @ljmuhistory.bsky.social in our Student Life Building at 5pm on Tuesday, October 13. If you're in the area, please do register to come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2001155772...

Out now! 'Horror and Disability' by @drdarrengray.bsky.social is the first study of disability in modern horror film and television, demonstrating how the genre turns bodies, vulnerability and difference into sites of fear and resistance. 📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/book/horror-... @xaldanareyes.bsky.social

The DARKNESS IN THE FIELDS FILM FESTIVAL is back next April, and we're looking for folk horror short films and features - if you've got a movie in the genre you want to see on the big screen, we'd love to check it out! filmfreeway.com/Darknessinth... #filmfestival #filmfest #horror #folkhorror

It's my birthday today! I'd love if all the people who read HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN would read and/or review my COCKFIGHTER book (it's a better book IMO)- one of the only outlets to ever review it was @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social here: share.google/oSLZNGWvoeyH...

Our newest title . . . GHOSTS ON THE CAM edited by Robert Lloyd Parry The third in a series of linked anthologies exploring M. R. James, his circle of colleagues, and their supernatural writing. Lloyd Parry essays on each writer and their connection with MRJ. swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/gh...

Tuesday Oct 6 I'll be at the @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social in Dublin, in conversation with author + scholar Bernice Murphy followed by a screening of Eyes of Fire Tix: share.google/pCreT885s6G7...

The new Patrons-only episode of Telefantasy Time Jump is out now! Join @lizbethmyles.bsky.social and I as we watch 1973's Star Trek animated series and The Starlost! www.patreon.com/TelefantasyT...

HARPYA(1979): Channel 4's Four-Mations strand showed mind-blowing world animations during the 90s, including Raoul Servais' live action/stop-motion horror classic about a man who takes in a Harpy with an insatiable appetite...

We've added a new feature to folknhell.com - Where to watch. No matter where in the world you are, this handy gizmo will tell you what streaming services are playing each of the films we cover on the podcast. Because we want you to enjoy the films we enjoy ;-) www.folknhell.com/where-to-watch

December is peak spooky season, and we've got plenty on the go to mark the occasion with our range of online talks for 2026! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis... #xmas #christmas #ghosts #ghoststories #haunting #hauntings #spooky #spookyseason

Fancy a folklore writing workshop at Waterstones in Worthing on Wednesday 14 October at 6pm? I might even drop a few divinatory techniques to help solve writers block too... To book tickets go to: www.waterstones.com/events/folkl... #WritingCommunity #Worthing #Folklore #CreativeWriting #AmWriting

Hem hem. Me and him again. crimereads.com/darryl-jones...

Partial garden grape harvest … Now, what to do with them! Eat some and make some grape jelly, probably.

I'm looking to chat to any PhDs who are doing/have done some tutoring to find out more about it. Please comment or DM!

We're looking for folk horror features and short films for next year's DARKNESS IN THE FIELDS FILM FESTIVAL at QUAD here in Derby - if you've got something that fits the bill, why not check it out at filmfreeway.com/Darknessinth... #folkhorror #folklore #filmfest #filmfestivals #horrorfilm

Be sure to capture the Christmas spirit with us this year, as we present a week of Xmas lectures online from the 14th-18th December - we've got a range of topics from a great array of speakers incoming! www.eventbrite.com/e/christmas-... #christmas #xmas #festive

I've added a new feature to my website where I'll make a selection of script pitches, outlines, and early drafts available for download. The PDFs themselves will be password protected in a futile attempt to keep the scrapers at bay, but the code's right there. First up, John Buchan's The 39 Steps

Our speaker dropped out for tomorrow's talk so I am diving into the breach We'll be heading back to the 18th century to explore 'Fantomina: An Alternative Genealogy of Romance' You can join online at 10am and 7pm BST on Saturday 10 - buytickets.at/romancingthe... 7- buytickets.at/romancingthe...

Next month! A few tickets still available. THE CRADLE & THE GRAVE: Grief and Terror in Victorian Child Bereavement w. Dr Jen Baker, Sat 17th Oct, 1:30pm Brompton Cemetery, London. Tickets £13.50 inc a gin cocktail 🍸 & 20% donation to Brompton Cemetery: londonmonthofthedead.com/tickets.html

If you've got a folk horror feature or short film in the works, then at DARKNESS IN THE FIELDS film festival we want to hear from you! Early bird submissions are now open... filmfreeway.com/Darknessinth... #folkhorror #horrorfilm #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horrormovie #horrorfestival

I've just put up another new Romancing the Gothic talk for October. Really excited to hear from Carolina Barcelos about contemporary Latin American women writing the Gothic and horror! October 10th at 4 and 9pm BST 4 - buytickets.at/romancingthe... 9 - buytickets.at/romancingthe...