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Derek Johnston

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Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.

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Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social · Mar 14

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

Nigel Kneale and Horror | Home

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 9h

Also it needs reviews so...
It only has two so the field is wide open for a nice little Gothic theology review in most every relevant journal!

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 9h

I feel like the title of my book - Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic - isn't very sexy or puts people off thinking 'well, I'm not interested in theology so... meh'.

But my books offers well researched challenges on key Gothic issues 1/

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 16h

The genius of Golden is its emotional range as well as the euphoric range of pitch variety in the lead vocals — so, this is a lovely video by Opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff on the technical singing of how EJAE hit that high A5 note, but also found power in the low E3
youtu.be/QsTQQ42UhvU?...

Is This The Best Belted A5 Ever? First Time Hearing Kpop Demon Hunters "Golden"

YouTube video by The Charismatic Voice

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David F Chapman @autocratik.bsky.social · 22h

As there seems to be some talk online about how licensed TTRPGs are bad, I’d like to reshare my old rebuttal:
I love licensed TTRPGs and here are some great examples why -

www.autocratik.com/2022/05/your...

Your Licensed Game Is Awesome!

Roleplaying gaming blog with movie reviews TV nerdery and geek content #RPGaDAY

www.autocratik.com

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 1d

In this week's Household Agony column, the Folklore Agony Aunt helps a reader with their knotty decision over what to do with their household spirits when they move… Subscribe and get all the drama in your inbox! #HouseholdLore🏡 #Folklore #FolkyFriday #spirits liza-frank.com/moving-house... 1/3

Moving House(hold Spirits) | Household Agony!

A reader about to move house asks the Folklore Agony Aunt for tips on how best to manage their household spirits...

liza-frank.com

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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 1d

Any Edinburgh-adjacent weirdsters should pop into @argonautbooks.bsky.social to take advantage of their #TalesOfTheWeird ( @blpublishing.bsky.social ) sale and grab a spoooky tote to boot!

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 2d

Our @cncsi.bsky.social C19 Gothic Afterlives programme!
🌴Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America
📖 @romgothsam.bsky.social Adapting Heathcliff
📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves
🎮 @marijkevalk.bsky.social occult gaming
📺 @drdjohnston.bsky.social Gothic TV

Register ➡️ cn-csi.com/event/hallow...

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 2d

'Stories of the Stones' in the new Reaktion Books catalogue!

Catalogue page for 'Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, and Brittany,' with a publication date of 1 February 2026.

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Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe it was actually part of a rebranding exercise!
Also, here we are again.

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 3d

Public Lecture: Stefan Collini (Cambridge) -- The University and the Humanities, Wednesday 8 October, 6:30pm - Lancaster University share.google/BOkyIo7auWhJ...

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 3d

'The Light' Taken at the base of the Tor with the sunrise casting beams of light through the mist.

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 4d

MATCH BOX BATS including vintage Japanese design & c. 1900 vampire bat. #Bats associated with darkness ironically become the bringers of light!! In many Asian countries they symbolise good luck #31DaysofHalloween

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 5d

I've just been asked by Peckham @womensinstitute.bsky.social to do a talk on household folklore next year! If there are any other WIs that fancy chatting about cold remedies, how to clean the silver with potatoes or what your jam says about you, please let me know! 🌿 #HouseholdLore #Folklore

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J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski.bsky.social · 6d

PART ONE

Twenty years ago, publishing entrepreneur Jaclyn Easton came to me with a risky but innovative idea: b5books.com, a publishing entity built around one show, Babylon 5, its participants and fans. This wouldn’t be what was usually done, aftermarket making-of books --

Babylon 5 Books is Closing Forever

Last chance ever to order B5 Books. Worldwide flat rate shipping for unlimited books is $45; USA is $9. We now offer ebooks and hardcovers.

B5Books.com

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 6d

The battle of Cable Street.
London, 4 October 1936.
They shall not pass.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 7d

Blowing a gale and on and off rain showers on this morning's walk here in Glastonbury. It was still an interesting sky at sunrise though.

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Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social · 7d

OMG Omega!, and other learned thoughts on the novelisation Doctor Who - The Three Doctors by Terrance Dicks 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/10/doct...

Doctor Who — The Three Doctors, by Terrance Dicks

0tralala.blogspot.com

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 8d

A searchable works list has been released to identify the authors’ works that were stolen by US Corporation Anthropic, to train its AI models. It includes UK authors whose works were copied without their permission or payment.

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 8d

#PhantomsFriday Bit of an odd one, but many years ago I read about a baboon that got covered in white flour which made all the other baboons who saw it flee in terror. This was told as evidence that baboons were familiar with, and scared of, baboon ghosts.

Anyone know the source of this anecdote?

Cartoon by Rachel Alvia of a baboon wearing a sheet like a traditional ghost saying 'baBOOn'.

https://rachelalvia.threadless.com/designs/baboon-boo-ghost-baboon/home/mounted-acrylic-print

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Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social · 8d

Free Gothic event alert! Panel discussion on Gothic Italy, in person at Goldsmiths or hybrid, Tuesday 7 October: bads.gold.ac.uk/gothic-italy

2025: Gothic Italy — BADS

BADS Jeudis 2025

bads.gold.ac.uk

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 9d

A very eerie glow in the sky today. Photo taken in Glastonbury about an hour before sunrise. Low level mist clinging to the hill. The sky was totally misty too until it cleared for a few moments.

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Lizbeth Myles @lizbethmyles.bsky.social · 9d

“Every day we make some impact on the planet. And the cumulative effect of millions of small ethical actions will truly make a difference.”

RIP to the epic Jane Goodall. And a hearty recommendation of her book: The Book of Hope, A Survival Guide for Trying Times.

Dr/Dame Jane Goodall. A brilliant scientist who's died at the age of 91.

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Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social · 9d

This year’s Ghost Story for Christmas announced: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Dame Joanna Lumley and Tobias Menzies star in a spine-chilling new Ghost Story for Christmas - The Room in the Tower

The latest ghost story adaptation from BBC Arts this Christmas is of an E.F. Benson tale, adapted by Mark Gatiss

www.bbc.co.uk

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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 9d

If you’re working on any area of fantasy and the fantastic, come and join us at Glasgow in June 2026 and do consider presenting or running a workshop! All the info you need and the full CFP is here:

fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...

@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 9d

He will tell his tale…

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 10d

The official trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz.

In select theaters October 17, on Netflix November 7.

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Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social · 11d

If you're about in Birmingham tomorrow - come to the first event for Booktober - me, talking about male mental illness in literature! (it's free!) www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/male-...

Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Literature - University of Birmingham

Explore some of the key ways men have been represented in contemporary literary fiction with Dr Christina Wilkins from the Film and Creative Writing department.

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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