Very excited to be a part of this amazing issue with such fantastic scholars! I discuss the similarities of Jackson and Stephen King’s folkloric characters, the Daemon Lover and the Man in Black, and how they contribute to a neo-folklore for New England 👻

CFP Alert: “Mothers, Mothering, Horror and Terror in Television, Film, and Literature”
The editors are looking for 2 or 3 contributions that address black, Chicanx/Latinx and/or migrant/migrating/borderland mother/hoods within the volumes’s theme of horror and/or terror.
#SSAG #CFP

Very excited to receive my contributor copy of Entering the Multiverse this morning (also the first physical copy of my published work I’ve ever held!!) - thanks to @pbooth81.bsky.social for all his hard work and support as editor!

Thank you!

Exciting mail today - this makes it official! 🎉

Pssssst! 🦇💀👻😈🧟‍♀️🧛‍♂️🎃

The @gothicstudies.bsky.social / International Gothic Association Early-Career Essay Prize 2024-25 is open to submissions!

Deadline is 1st March 2025
More details at 👇👇👇

www.globalgoth.org/blog/the-int...

Oh I see! Well I would love to hear more about it as and when it develops, it sounds like a really cool project!

Just the worst! 😂

Ah thank you. And that sounds brilliant, what a great idea! When will that be out (if it isn’t already)? I would love to read it!

Thank you! I'm looking forward to exploring more of the double, but especially getting to work more with popular culture alongside literature

I’m especially looking forward to it because, as well as all the expected literature, I’ve somehow managed to include Lost, Succession, Supernatural, Vampire Diaries, and - of course - Mario and his key double adversary, Wario. All the classics are covered here folks!

An exciting start to the week! I just signed and returned my contract to Lexington Press for my first book "The Eight Archetypes of the Double in Culture and Literature"! Now I just have to write it...

There’s still time to get tickets for the ‘Collins and Dickens’ conference held at the University of Buckingham! We have an amazing range of speakers, an exhibition and a staged reading of ‘No Thoroughfare’ - come along and join us (student prices available too!) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collins-an...

Thank you!

It’s a similar concept to the Gothic double, but looking more so at the external causations which create female doubles, as opposed to the duality of man which usually constitutes the male Gothic double

Thank you! I hope you enjoy it :)

And I recently published my first chapter, which you can find in the Critical Insights series on Frankenstein!

But beyond this I’m interested in anything in the gothic/horror/sci-fi realm from ancient mythology and folkloric tales to contemporary literature

I’ve officially joined Bluesky, so it’s a good time to introduce myself. I’m currently researching into the female double across literature from nineteenth century to modern day and how they subvert the common archetypes