Open Graves, Open Minds Research Project, University of Hertfordshire. Also tweeting as @DrSamGeorge1 @BillBloodyHughe
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BOOK PRIZE š¢ Thrilled to announce that The Legacy of John Polidori: The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny has made the longlist for this yearās International Gothic Association Book Prize @IGA_Goths. Congratulations to all nominated authors & editors!
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"Cuckoo spit" is a protective layer produced by froghopper nymphs. In Assamese folklore, it's said to be the spit of the "Jokhini" - a female spirit that lives in forests and preys on abusive men. Not quite #BotanicalGothic , perhaps, but #GothicNature .
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Are you creative with an interest in the Gothic, folklore, and fairy-tales? Send us your prose, poetry, and proposals before 31st July and join us in Sheffield for a spell-binding exploration of all things dark, dreary, and delightful this October āļøš»#DarkEnchantments
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See, a proper book, (little book, but a proper one) with an ISBN number and everything. Cover reveal and ordering details coming soon-ish. And yes, there is an-anti piracy, anti LLM curse embedded in the text. It is Hookland ā you'd expect nothing less.
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BAT-WINGED SERPENTS attack a farm girl in a painting by Viktor Oliva, a Czech illustrator. It appeared in National Fairy Tales and Legends by V. B. Trebizskeho (1870). These hybrid creatures are influenced by the medieval Basilisk or Cockatrice #FairyTaleSunday
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Iām very excited for this! Join us ā¬ļø
On June 21st we will launch the next Tales of the Weird - Haunted Yorkshire, at Midsummer Weird! We are just one panel on an amazing day in Farsley (Leeds). oldwoollen.seetickets.com/evā¦
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Grimoires by Owen Davies, O U P First Edition 2009.
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Margygr, Giant of the Sea by Tom Cuzor.
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Jun 12
The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan, 1984)
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For tonight's Spell in the Library I read you a little known gem from Tolkien's Collected Poems youtu.be/wzytzm8IlnA
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RT @NoctrnlValkyrie: āA crow can recall every route it has ever taken. Crows are messengers, spies, guides, companions, harbingers of luck,ā¦
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The death in Greece of Ianthe at the hands of aristocratic vampire and English rake Lord Ruthven 1819.
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'Vampyre'
From the Gothic novella "The Vampyre" by John William Polidori.
#illustration by F. Gilbert (1884).
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"Gnoms" (1905) by ApelĀ·les Mestres for the poem "Liliana".
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ELF RING A circle of mushrooms known as an 'elf ring' from Kate Greenaway 1905. The girl is tentatively stepping into the elf ring wherein she could be transported to the otherworld, or be made to dance by fairies until she dies of exhaustion!
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š¢CFP From @SheffieldGothic. I will be speaking on 'Gothicising the Fairy' as the Keynote at this event. There's still plenty of time to get your proposals in before the July deadline. How very exciting! See you there!
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GOTHIC NATURE Tentacled ivy reclaims the dead at Highgate Cemetery. The #Gothic fusion of living vines, ancient tombs & enduring angels is beautifully dark & evocative of transgressing boundaries between life and death, new and old worlds
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'Vampyre'
From the Gothic novella "The Vampyre" by John William Polidori.
#illustration by F. Gilbert (1884).
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Harmony in the Light of the Moon (1903) by American illustrator Sarah Stilwell Weber
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RT @NoctrnlValkyrie: āWhat goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.ā
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'The Goblin in the Chimney' illustration by Euza Curtis, 1917
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The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan, 1984)
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