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A UK-based literary magazine dedicated to dark & unconventional storytelling & poetry, centred on its quarterly digital anthologies. Prose and poetry submissions remain open for our Deep Roots anthology until Monday 30 November.

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ACCEPTING #SUBMISSIONS… for Deep Roots, our quarter four anthology. Send us your #prose, #poetry, graphic narratives, and non-English* work. Read the brief by clicking on the link below. The #submission window closes at 23:59 on Monday 30 November. (* with an English translation) bit.ly/4rD9OkQ

bit.lyThe Deep Roots Anthology: Details | Discover and Submit Your Uncanny Stories — GossamerWight Literary MagazineExplore the Deep Roots anthology submission opportunity. Inviting prose, graphic narrative, and poetry submissions from 1 October until 30 November, 2026.
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"Death has never entirely stopped the living from trying to continue a conversation with their loved ones." [The Conversation]. #Victorian #spiritualism capitalised on the desire to transcend #death to create new ways of making money. theconversation.com/victorian-sp...

theconversation.comVictorian spiritualism capitalised on the desire to transcend death to create new ways of making moneyThe very technologies that transformed Victorian commerce and entertainment also helped make ghosts visible, reproducible and profitable.
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#Film. "Robert Eggers’s historical folk horror #Werwulf will be in cinemas this winter. It’s set in 1305, when wolves still roamed parts of England." [The Conversation] #FolkHorror #Horror #Werewolf #Lycanthrope #Folklore theconversation.com/robert-egger...

theconversation.comRobert Eggers’s Werwulf: the real history of wolves and werewolves in medieval EnglandIn 1590, a pamphlet was printed describing the life, trial and brutal execution of Peter Stumpp, a German man accused of being a werewolf.
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"While #Clayface doesn’t live up to its genre-bending promise of a comic book body #horror, it’s not an unmitigated disaster. The #film is entertaining and features enough imaginative sequences to forgive some of its more prosaic and one-dimensional aspects." theconversation.com/clayface-tri...

theconversation.comClayface tries to tap into the success of body horror but can’t reach the genre’s gory depthsClayface has some memorable moments, but can’t quite reach the brilliance of the body-horror classic, The Substance.
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"Reclaiming the label 'witch' has become an act of feminist solidarity. But are we recovering the women themselves, or a posthumous identity built from accusation rather than fact?" [The Conversation] #WitchTrials #WomensHistory #MedievalHistory theconversation.com/when-powerfu...

theconversation.comWhen powerful women are remembered as witches, we should challenge the historical motiveHistorical women are remembered through reputations they never chose – we need not pass them on uncritically.
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#Halloween is all about #witches and #ghosts. In English scientific circles in the second half of the 17th century, there was a discussion about whether such things existed and how their existence could be proved. [The Conversation] theconversation.com/the-17th-cen...

theconversation.comThe 17th-century British scientists who investigated hauntingsThe Royal Society was Britain’s principal scientific institution and some of its fellows were dabbling in the investigation of spirits.
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Women have been consistently demonised in popular culture for a very long time. In her book Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women, feminist academic Eleanor Johnson takes us on a detailed and delightfully macabre tour of the history of female monstrosity. theconversation.com/the-complica...

theconversation.comThe complicated history of women being seen as ‘monstrous bitches’ – from ancient Mesopatamia to modern filmThe fear of the feminine has led the patriarchy to cast women as monstrous across time and culture.
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Our birthday roll-call is complete, honouring our anthology contributors to "Everyday Eerie", "Thresholds", "Uncanny Regimes", and "Unstable Realities". Year Two has begun with "Deep Roots", open for your work. Thanks to all our supporters! #GWYearOne #GossamerWight #LitMag #Anthology #Anthologies

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Prime’s #Carrie miniseries – "Overall, Flanagan’s Carrie fails to satisfy as much as the original novel or 1976 film adaptation do, which is unfortunate, because the series shines when it is most faithful to the source material." [The Conversation]. #StephenKing theconversation.com/primes-carri...

theconversation.comPrime’s Carrie miniseries expands Stephen King’s story – but weakens its central horrorThis is the fourth screen adaptation of Stephen King’s debut novel.
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One year old today! Our birthday roll-call continues with the second of our Q3, 2026 Unstable Realities anthology tributes. This was the anthology of ontological fracture – of shifting worlds beneath our feet, stabilised by our contributors! #GWYearOne #GossamerWight #LitMag #Anthology #Anthologies

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One year old today! Our birthday roll-call continues with the first of our Q3, 2026 Unstable Realities anthology tributes. This was the anthology of ontological fracture – of shifting worlds beneath our feet, stabilised by our contributors! #GWYearOne #GossamerWight #LitMag #Anthology #Anthologies

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#Book: Night of a Thousand Hells. "Paramaditha’s achievement lies in the way she brings Indonesian #folklore, Islamic #mysticism and contemporary political violence into conversation with the ghostly legacies of western literature." [The conversation]. #BookSky theconversation.com/night-of-a-t...

theconversation.comNight of a Thousand Hells: a subversive, shapeshifting tale of sisterhood, violence and griefSet in Indonesia, this deeply affecting tale of family tragedy sees mysticism, political violence and western literature collide.
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One year old today! Our birthday roll-call continues with our Q2, 2026 Uncanny Regimes anthology, where we moved from the liminal into the political – into systems, structures, and the eerie authority they accumulate. Sound familiar? To the writers below, our thanks for your creative interpretation!

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One year old today! Our birthday roll-call continues with our Q1, 2026 Thresholds anthology contributors. Crossing thresholds is what this past year has been about, and these writers achieved it magnificently! #GWYearOne #GossamerWight #LitMag #Anthology #Anthologies

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One year old today! Our birthday roll-call begins with the anthology edition that started it all: Everyday Eerie (Q4, 2025). To the writers below... thank you for trusting a brand-new literary magazine with your words. #GWYearOne #GossamerWight #LitMag #Anthology #Anthologies

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I’m thrilled to have my story, ‘The Wild Hunt’, about the horrors of reality TV, published in this collection! ⬇️

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MONSTER CAPITAL - OUT NOW! 📚🥳 📕 commapress.co.uk/books/monste... In the spirit of Mark Fisher, we invited writers to explore capitalism through the lens of the gothic & surreal: TV shows built on misery, lab-grown meat with a mind of its own, housing developments spread like a virus & much more...

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Oversexed teenagers, invincible killers and a deserted cabin – what could possibly go wrong? ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ winks and blows a blood-soaked kiss at #horror films of #queer past. theconversation.com/teenage-sex-...

theconversation.com‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ winks and blows a blood-soaked kiss at horror films of queer pastSlasher films have notoriously played into homophobic and transphobic tropes. But queer and trans fans love them anyway, and ‘Camp Miasma’ addresses that tension head-on.
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Published: the GossamerWight Literary Magazine Q3 anthology, Unstable Realities. The third in our 2026 year-long anthology arc. Available to download, free, in #PDF and #ePub formats from the GossamerWight online store. #GossamerWight #LiteraryMagazine #Anthology #UnstableRealities #Prose #Poetry

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"How do fairy tales, with roots reaching deep into the past, continue to cast their spell on us? This question animates The Art of Fairy Tales by Joanna Ebenstein – a visual exploration of the ever-changing lives of fairy tales through the imagination of artists." theconversation.com/the-wondrous...

theconversation.comThe wondrous history of fairy tale art – from wolves and witches to fallen princessesFairy tales continue to nourish artistic invention because their characters embrace continual metamorphosis, discovering yet another possibility within an old story.
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"Leviticus is an excellent independent drama. The film’s success lies less in its execution of effective scares and horror tropes and more in the emotionally resonant, superbly acted depiction of a forbidden young gay relationship in an oppressive community." theconversation.com/leviticus-de...

theconversation.comLeviticus: deadly desire stalks queer teens in this rural Australian horrorTwo queer teens find themselves stalked by their desire in this rural Australian horror film
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How Aliens became the rare sequel that was as good as – or better than – the original. 'One of my favourite exchanges in the film was when Private Hudson asks his female colleague, “Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?” She replies, “No. Have you?"' theconversation.com/how-aliens-b...

theconversation.comHow Aliens became the rare sequel that was as good as – or better than – the originalForty years on, James Cameron’s transformation of Ridley Scott’s horror classic remains a masterclass in how to make a sequel.