Brontë Schiltz
@bronteschiltz.bsky.social
🖊: @bigissue.com @bigissuenorth.bsky.social 👻 PhD on the Televisual Gothic @manmetuni.bsky.social 👩💼 Members Coordinator @igagoths.bsky.social
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It’s been a very good year for celebrations of Nigel Kneale, and @tobyhadoke.bsky.social, @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social, @accordingtojond.bsky.social and I are topping it off with a day of Quatermass at Derby QUAD on 6 December!
🎟️: www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/thequ...
🎟️: www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/thequ...
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NEW COMMA BLOG ✍️
Nigel Kneale & the Halloween that Never Was
By @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social 🎃
Andy Murray explores the Manx folklore that fuelled Kneale's stories from Quatermass to Tomato Cain, & the Halloween III script that never saw the light of day.
📜 commapress.co.uk/blog/nigel-k...
Nigel Kneale & the Halloween that Never Was
By @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social 🎃
Andy Murray explores the Manx folklore that fuelled Kneale's stories from Quatermass to Tomato Cain, & the Halloween III script that never saw the light of day.
📜 commapress.co.uk/blog/nigel-k...
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
NEW COMMA BLOG ✍️
Nigel Kneale & the Halloween that Never Was
By @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social 🎃
Andy Murray explores the Manx folklore that fuelled Kneale's stories from Quatermass to Tomato Cain, & the Halloween III script that never saw the light of day.
📜 commapress.co.uk/blog/nigel-k...
Nigel Kneale & the Halloween that Never Was
By @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social 🎃
Andy Murray explores the Manx folklore that fuelled Kneale's stories from Quatermass to Tomato Cain, & the Halloween III script that never saw the light of day.
📜 commapress.co.uk/blog/nigel-k...
Next Thursday, I’m going to be reading a story from Nigel Kneale’s brilliant collection, Tomato Cain, recently reprinted by @commapress.bsky.social, at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social’s @northernfiction.bsky.social 2025 Winter Showcase!
Join us: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f...
Join us: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f...
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Next Thursday, I’m going to be reading a story from Nigel Kneale’s brilliant collection, Tomato Cain, recently reprinted by @commapress.bsky.social, at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social’s @northernfiction.bsky.social 2025 Winter Showcase!
Join us: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f...
Join us: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f...
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✏️ Volunteer with The Orwell Youth Prize!
We are always looking for experienced writers and educators to join our brilliant volunteers - and there’s still time to sign up for our training sessions tomorrow (1-2pm GMT) and Wednesday (2-3pm GMT).
Find out more: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-y...
We are always looking for experienced writers and educators to join our brilliant volunteers - and there’s still time to sign up for our training sessions tomorrow (1-2pm GMT) and Wednesday (2-3pm GMT).
Find out more: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-y...
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
✏️ Volunteer with The Orwell Youth Prize!
We are always looking for experienced writers and educators to join our brilliant volunteers - and there’s still time to sign up for our training sessions tomorrow (1-2pm GMT) and Wednesday (2-3pm GMT).
Find out more: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-y...
We are always looking for experienced writers and educators to join our brilliant volunteers - and there’s still time to sign up for our training sessions tomorrow (1-2pm GMT) and Wednesday (2-3pm GMT).
Find out more: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-y...
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Inside this week’s Big Issue: Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody at 50; Christmas past, present and future; Sir Magdi Yacoub’s Letter To My Younger Self; 20 years of the Millennium Seed Bank; how Wham! killed the Christmas #1; and much more.
Find your local vendor: https://bit.ly/3K7E9V5
Find your local vendor: https://bit.ly/3K7E9V5
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Inside this week’s Big Issue: Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody at 50; Christmas past, present and future; Sir Magdi Yacoub’s Letter To My Younger Self; 20 years of the Millennium Seed Bank; how Wham! killed the Christmas #1; and much more.
Find your local vendor: https://bit.ly/3K7E9V5
Find your local vendor: https://bit.ly/3K7E9V5
I had the honour of appearing on @adamzed.bsky.social’s excellent @ghoststorybookclub.bsky.social two episodes in a row, discussing M.R. James (alongside Catherine Spooner) and Vernon Lee!
Out now wherever you get your podcasts 👻
Out now wherever you get your podcasts 👻
November 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I had the honour of appearing on @adamzed.bsky.social’s excellent @ghoststorybookclub.bsky.social two episodes in a row, discussing M.R. James (alongside Catherine Spooner) and Vernon Lee!
Out now wherever you get your podcasts 👻
Out now wherever you get your podcasts 👻
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Edwin, 47, lives in Stuttgart and likes local street paper Trott-war: what it says, what it reports on, and who it gives a voice to. He explains the barriers that he faces to mainstream employment, and why he wants to become a vendor: www.insp.ngo/articles/liv...
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Edwin, 47, lives in Stuttgart and likes local street paper Trott-war: what it says, what it reports on, and who it gives a voice to. He explains the barriers that he faces to mainstream employment, and why he wants to become a vendor: www.insp.ngo/articles/liv...
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Apropos vendor Bobi Onica moved from Pitești, Romania to Salzburg, Austria to create a better life for his children: www.insp.ngo/articles/ven...
November 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Apropos vendor Bobi Onica moved from Pitești, Romania to Salzburg, Austria to create a better life for his children: www.insp.ngo/articles/ven...
It’s a very interesting time to be doing a PhD on the BBC
November 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
It’s a very interesting time to be doing a PhD on the BBC
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'After the Covid shutdown, the number of BBC archivists was reduced to a skeleton crew. Expert staff who took early retirement were not replaced.'
J. E. Smyth: The BBC is restricting access to its archives
J. E. Smyth: The BBC is restricting access to its archives
Who controls the past
www.the-tls.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
'After the Covid shutdown, the number of BBC archivists was reduced to a skeleton crew. Expert staff who took early retirement were not replaced.'
J. E. Smyth: The BBC is restricting access to its archives
J. E. Smyth: The BBC is restricting access to its archives
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‘It is formally “our BBC”, as the corporation’s branding insists, but it doesn’t always feel that way. An opportunistic attack on the principle of non-commercial media shouldn’t obscure the underlying structural problems with the corporation.’
Des Freedman:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Des Freedman:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Des Freedman | Whose BBC?
From the revelations about Jimmy Savile in 2012 to the gender pay gap debacle in 2017, the BBC was for many years its...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
‘It is formally “our BBC”, as the corporation’s branding insists, but it doesn’t always feel that way. An opportunistic attack on the principle of non-commercial media shouldn’t obscure the underlying structural problems with the corporation.’
Des Freedman:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Des Freedman:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
It’s been a very good year for celebrations of Nigel Kneale, and @tobyhadoke.bsky.social, @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social, @accordingtojond.bsky.social and I are topping it off with a day of Quatermass at Derby QUAD on 6 December!
🎟️: www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/thequ...
🎟️: www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/thequ...
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
It’s been a very good year for celebrations of Nigel Kneale, and @tobyhadoke.bsky.social, @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social, @accordingtojond.bsky.social and I are topping it off with a day of Quatermass at Derby QUAD on 6 December!
🎟️: www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/thequ...
🎟️: www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/thequ...
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Hoping to see a few of you on Sunday. Please do come and say hello. Rare chance to meet Peter Harness, with bonus Rob Shearman and, hopefully Toby Hadoke.
Next Sunday. Screening an ultra rare BBC Christmas ghost story and celebrating the 20th anniversary of the superb A View from a Hill, plus a chat with its writer, Peter Harness.
Details and tickets:
Details and tickets:
A Birmingham Ghost Story + Peter Harness Q&A | Midlands Arts Centre
The BBC became well known in the 70s for producing popular anthology series Ghost Stories For Christmas, but Birmingham’s Pebble Mill had its own anthology
macbirmingham.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Hoping to see a few of you on Sunday. Please do come and say hello. Rare chance to meet Peter Harness, with bonus Rob Shearman and, hopefully Toby Hadoke.
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BlueSky! We need your help. Sign up for our Kickstarter for a brand new audio horror anthology series: DEADVAULT!
Find out more here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mik...
Find out more here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mik...
October 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
BlueSky! We need your help. Sign up for our Kickstarter for a brand new audio horror anthology series: DEADVAULT!
Find out more here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mik...
Find out more here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mik...
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 S5 E4 Join me and my special guest Andrew Michael Hurley, author of The Loney and brand new novel Saltwash, and we discuss 'A View from a Hill' by M.R. James.
#books #ghoststories #andrewmichaelhurley #uncanny #TheLoney #Saltwash #podcast #bookstagram #spooky #eerie #ghoststory
#books #ghoststories #andrewmichaelhurley #uncanny #TheLoney #Saltwash #podcast #bookstagram #spooky #eerie #ghoststory
October 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 S5 E4 Join me and my special guest Andrew Michael Hurley, author of The Loney and brand new novel Saltwash, and we discuss 'A View from a Hill' by M.R. James.
#books #ghoststories #andrewmichaelhurley #uncanny #TheLoney #Saltwash #podcast #bookstagram #spooky #eerie #ghoststory
#books #ghoststories #andrewmichaelhurley #uncanny #TheLoney #Saltwash #podcast #bookstagram #spooky #eerie #ghoststory
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 S5 E3 Join me and my special guest Evelyn Hollow as we discuss The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Out now, subscribe to The Ghost Story Book Club wherever you get your podcasts.
October 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 S5 E3 Join me and my special guest Evelyn Hollow as we discuss The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Out now, subscribe to The Ghost Story Book Club wherever you get your podcasts.
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 S5 E2 Join me and my fantastic guest Colin Walsh, author of Kala, as we discuss 'Don't Look Now' by Daphne Du Maurier. Subscribe and listen to The Ghost Story Book Club wherever you get your podcasts!
October 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 S5 E2 Join me and my fantastic guest Colin Walsh, author of Kala, as we discuss 'Don't Look Now' by Daphne Du Maurier. Subscribe and listen to The Ghost Story Book Club wherever you get your podcasts!
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 S5 E1 Join me and the brilliant Julia Armfield as we discuss 'Honeysuckle Cottage' by P.G. Wodehouse. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
October 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 S5 E1 Join me and the brilliant Julia Armfield as we discuss 'Honeysuckle Cottage' by P.G. Wodehouse. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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Back at Highgate Cemetery in January, looking at how it’s used in TV and film. Details:
Beyond the Graves - Highgate Cemetery on Film and Television
Beyond the Graves - Highgate Cemetery on Film and Television
connect.highgatecemetery.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Back at Highgate Cemetery in January, looking at how it’s used in TV and film. Details:
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I’m hoping to go to Birmingham on Sunday : a treat for fans of Doctor Who and ghosts. A screening of A View From A Hill and a bonus chat between Jon Dear and writer Peter Harness (Kill The Moon, Constellation, The Zygon Invasion/Inversion etc). 2.30pm!
macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema/a-bir...
macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema/a-bir...
A Birmingham Ghost Story + Peter Harness Q&A | Midlands Arts Centre
The BBC became well known in the 70s for producing popular anthology series Ghost Stories For Christmas, but Birmingham’s Pebble Mill had its own anthology
macbirmingham.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I’m hoping to go to Birmingham on Sunday : a treat for fans of Doctor Who and ghosts. A screening of A View From A Hill and a bonus chat between Jon Dear and writer Peter Harness (Kill The Moon, Constellation, The Zygon Invasion/Inversion etc). 2.30pm!
macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema/a-bir...
macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema/a-bir...
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Publication day! My special issue on Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic is officially out: www.euppublishing.com/toc/gothic/c...
My heartfelt thanks to all the contributors. So much in here - will cover in future posts. The issue positions B as a major force in C20th British Gothic.
My heartfelt thanks to all the contributors. So much in here - will cover in future posts. The issue positions B as a major force in C20th British Gothic.
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - gothic: Vol 27, No 3
www.euppublishing.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Publication day! My special issue on Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic is officially out: www.euppublishing.com/toc/gothic/c...
My heartfelt thanks to all the contributors. So much in here - will cover in future posts. The issue positions B as a major force in C20th British Gothic.
My heartfelt thanks to all the contributors. So much in here - will cover in future posts. The issue positions B as a major force in C20th British Gothic.
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Spooky advent calendars still very much for sale... featuring many faves of TV, film and literature. Free Christmas at Borley card with every calendar. Lots of prints and cards also available. Reposts much appreciated. Thanks folks. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com/listing/1801...
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Spooky advent calendars still very much for sale... featuring many faves of TV, film and literature. Free Christmas at Borley card with every calendar. Lots of prints and cards also available. Reposts much appreciated. Thanks folks. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com/listing/1801...
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Phenomenally excited to be one of the headline speakers at the next UK Ghost Story Festival in Derby. Sharing the bill with people like Catriona Ward is just incredible, and I can't wait to see the full line up.
UK Ghost Story Festival 2026 Passes | Derby QUAD
View our latest event: UK Ghost Story Festival 2026 Passes. See what the available times are for this event.
www.derbyquad.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Phenomenally excited to be one of the headline speakers at the next UK Ghost Story Festival in Derby. Sharing the bill with people like Catriona Ward is just incredible, and I can't wait to see the full line up.
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Loved Tonight's talk by @bronteschiltz.bsky.social discussing Televisual Gothic: Medication, Manipulation and Exploitation in British Broadcasting.
Special thanks to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social and @joshsaco.bsky.social for organising and hosting this event.
Special thanks to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social and @joshsaco.bsky.social for organising and hosting this event.
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Loved Tonight's talk by @bronteschiltz.bsky.social discussing Televisual Gothic: Medication, Manipulation and Exploitation in British Broadcasting.
Special thanks to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social and @joshsaco.bsky.social for organising and hosting this event.
Special thanks to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social and @joshsaco.bsky.social for organising and hosting this event.
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Well this was predictably excellent. Many thanks to @bronteschiltz.bsky.social and @miskatonicihs.bsky.social.
November 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Well this was predictably excellent. Many thanks to @bronteschiltz.bsky.social and @miskatonicihs.bsky.social.
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This is going to sell out...
If you’re still in the Halloween spirit, come and celebrate with me on 11th November at The Horse Hospital, where I’ll be giving a talk on the Televisual Gothic for this year’s @miskatonicihs.bsky.social autumn semester!
🎟️: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/telev...
🎟️: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/telev...
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is going to sell out...