Writer, academic freelance. Gothic, SF, lit film. Recent book: Gothic (2021). *Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead* coming soon.
Joined May 2010
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9 Nov 2024
Stupid computer thing I couldn’t fix, and had to hire a young guy who sorted it in minutes. He also said: ‘I really recommend you install a niece or similar somewhere nearby: that’s what most of my old clients do.’
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6 Nov 2024
Weather forecast this morning: pathetic fallacy, increasing steadily
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5 Nov 2024
Back in the 70s, my mum would make ‘bang toffee’ for Bonfire Night. Was this a northern thing (they were from Huddersfield/ Bradford/Manchester area), or a weird family made up thing? No one left to ask now…
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3 Nov 2024
Back from giving a talk in Denmark where a group of local volunteer peeps get funded by the govt to promote small scale cultural events in public libraries. Imagine! Crazy Danes!
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1 Nov 2024
Hooch and Misogyny at a Gentlemen’s Guesthouse was the initial title for Boris Johnson’s memoir
1 Nov 2024
The Empusium review: ‘hooch and misogyny at a gentlemen’s guesthouse’
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1 Nov 2024
I am off to Kolding in Denmark, where, pleasingly, the temperature is middling.
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29 Oct 2024
Investigating haunted houses with The Ghost Club - @TheProfRog - ft.com/content/8986be33-be1b… via @ft
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29 Oct 2024
Thanks to the lovely folk @unbounders, who sent me an emergency Halloween care package this week!
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28 Oct 2024
Now I can’t use my work office at all, my last teaching prep is done in cafes — this has its pluses and minuses, often arriving in the same slice
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27 Oct 2024
I dunno there’s something off about Robert Jenrick but I just can’t put my finger on it.
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27 Oct 2024
That uneasy feeling you get when you ask what the film being shot in your street is, and they say Conjuring 4.
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24 Oct 2024
Maybe some sort of voluntary labour? We could offer to send Boris Johnson to work on the cane fields, for instance
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