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Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany (Reaktion, 2026) • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Poems in NewPoetry.ca, The South Shore Review, and The Ekphrastic Review • Professor of English

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 12d

If you live in the UK, you can now pre-order 'Stories of the Stones' directly from Reaktion Books or your favourite bookseller. Publication date is 1 February, 2026!

Pre-order here: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/stories...

Cover of 'Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland and Brittany,' depicting a seventeenth-century illustration of Stonehenge.

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 15h

My maternal great-grandfather emigrated to Canada a year after this photo was taken to work for Sir Henry Pellatt as gardner, which he did until Sir Henry ran out of money and had to give up the property in 1923.

James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 15h

A fun photograph of Casa Loma (or "Casa Lorna"!) under construction, from a 1912 Star Weekly.

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 18h

It feels like we're witnessing the collapse of the arts and humanities in higher education, as global fascism twists it into vocational training for its own ideological purposes.

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 18h

I have never seen the academic job market as bad as this year. This is peak listing time for the MLA and there are currently just 148 listed faculty positions in English in the USA, and just 4 in Canada.

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 22h

On sale now!
Witches and Witchcraft: Stories of Sorcery, Spells and Superstition
A new special edition from the archives of Fortean Times, with an introduction and commentary by historian of witchcraft Malcolm Gaskill.
In shops now, or order direct from:
shop.forteantimes.com/product/witc...

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 22h

I feel seen.

Box of records with a sign reading 'Used Folk.'

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 22h

"It was there that I saw him first and for the only time in my life, at a noon hour crazy with heat. It was at a moment when time, demented and wild, breaks away from the treadmill of events and like an escaping vagabond, runs shouting across the fields. Then the summer grows out of control."

Pan

A photo of the 1988 Picador edition of The Fictions of Bruno Schulz. The cover art is by Andrej Krauze.

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks for this -- new to me!

Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 1d

Surrealist painter, writer, and occultist Ithell Colquhoun was born #OTD in 1906. She was fascinated by megalithic sites, which she explored in painting and in her travel books 'The Crying of the Wind: Ireland' (1955) and 'The Living Stones: Cornwall' (1957).

🎨'La Cathedrale Engloutie' (1952)

Surrealist landscape showing figure-of-eight pattern of stones, half submerged and half on an island.

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 1d

'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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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, there is a link to file a claim: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com?_gl=16zbvom_...

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 2d

We looked at Poe's "The Raven" today in one of my classes, so I played them Christopher Lee's excellent reading, which I share with you here...

The Raven - Read by Christopher Lee

YouTube video by KajiCarson

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 3d

Books on Auden, Mao, Qaddafi, Edwin Morgan's concrete poetry, Stooges' Raw Power, fascism & the global far right, 'The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments', Katherine Harvey's superb 'Medieval Guide to Healthy Living' & more coming @reaktionbooks.bsky.social reaktionbooks.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 2d

We're reading Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet' (1998) this week in one of my courses. This fine novel explores the life and death of a Scottish jazz musician, whose death reveals a secret kept from everyone except his wife.

Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 2d

I'd encourage writers and academics who've had a book published in the US to check to see if their work is included in the Anthropic settlement; I was surprised to find that my 2007 monograph on David Jones was in the searchable list. Here's the link:

Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 3d

Thoroughly enjoyed rewatching this film that utterly terrified me when I first saw it in the theatre as a kid.

Poster for ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 3d

West Kennett Long Barrow, July 2023. #TombTuesday

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 4d

I’m pleased to say you can now pre-order my next book, ‘Fairies: A History’ (out in February 2026) from
@politybooks.bsky.social. Thank you to Jeremy Harte, Simon Young, Jo Hickey-Hall and Owen Davies for such generous endorsements! 🌿📚 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 4d

‘An unkind film’: letters reveal rift between director and writer of The Wicker Man

Exclusive: Documents show ‘hostile’ director and ‘self-indulgent’ writer were at loggerheads during production of 1973 cult horror film

www.theguardian.com

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 4d

Alice in Wonderland (Jonathan Miller, 1966), my favourite adaptation.

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve read there’s been a huge decline in the insect population.

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 4d

I am preparing the index for my book this week; my favourite entry so far has to be 'Caylus, Anne Claude de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de Lévis, comte de'

Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 4d

Seen on my porch this weekend. Grasshoppers were everywhere when I was growing up, but I rarely see them now.

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 5d

It’s a 2021 release, but I only just found a copy at my local record shop!

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 5d

Currently listening.

The Wicker Man soundtrack on yellow vinyl.

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 6d

Day 5 of #ClassicsTober25: Hermes Psychopompos. This stunning pottery painting is from an Anatolian grave. It is a white-ground cup from the eastern cemetery of Daskyleion in a Persian satrapal center. It dates to the late fifth century BC. #ClassicsTober

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