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Dorian David Leigh @notdoriangray.bsky.social · 3h

Sexy titles are overrated. I've attended multiple online talks where Sam has shared various bits and pieces of what's in this book, and they know what they're talking about and are talking about it in an incredibly interesting and accessible way.

Your academic discourse doesn't need tits and ass.

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 11h

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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C. M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 4h

Aloush really needs help. Donations have dried up and he is struggling. Little Ameera has been in the hospital in a coma, she is now awake and recovering after being shot. Please help this family by giving if you can and sharing if not, and following him on insta. chuffed.org/project/1406...

Provide assistance for Umm Aloush in Gaza

My name is Sarah and I am in Wisconsin, USA. I am creating this campaign for Umm Aloush to collect donations for the difficult situation in Gaza that our Palestinian friends face every day. Your don...

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 6h

There’s a comment piece in The Times about sickness benefits mysteriously going up and no mention of Covid, long Covid, the effects of lockdown etc. Boosters help people stay healthy, but now they are only available to the very old or people who can afford them.

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 6h

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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C. M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · Sep 10

Thirteenth : "like Encanto but with more gore" (in East Sussex)

Queer Lovecraftian horror x family drama with tentacles

💣🦑Angry girl goes eldritch: When you're meant to catch a train to London but end up locked in a Gothic manor

(Can be read as standalone)
📚💙🪐📚😱🩸📚
www.canelo.co/books/thirte...

Thirteenth by C. M. Rosens | Canelo

Ebook and Paperback

www.canelo.co

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 11h

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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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 18h

Saw a post about this book on Tuesday.

It looked ACE, so I went to Big Green Books website to order it. But It wasn't there.

Then I saw a thing on the homepage that said email [email protected] & all your dreams will come true.

So I did.

Two days later, they have!

Thanks Big Green Books

The front cover of "By Horror Haunted" by Celia Fremlin

A screenshot of the homepage of my website telling you to not worry if stuff isn't on the website.

Cos I can get pretty much ANYTHING.

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 22h

Would anyone like to grab one of my hand-sewn creations from my Big Cartel shop? I still have time to mail them off before the weekend.

jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 1d

Meet my newest creation Edith the Moth Phantom! I designed and hand-sewed her. She enjoys singing sea shanties with her cryptid band. They perform primarily for the moon. She also likes appearing to travelers as good or bad omens, depending on her mood.

jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely photo of my fabric art moth phantom. She's a white moth phantom with a gray face, large twinkly black eyes, and a little frown. She has curly white antennae. There are black and gray oval markings on her wings. There's a beautiful galaxy print fabric in the background.

Here's another lovely pic of Edith. In this one, she's resting on my palm.

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Sarah @sarahalba.bsky.social · 19h

#AScareADay Day 10 – The Dark Angel by Lionel Johnson

I admit I read this earlier today & didn't really get it. Then I read some about the poet and now I feel this is really quite sad. The self-loathing, the fear, the way he feels he has to utterly reject who he is. Eternally uncomforted, indeed 😢

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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 23h

happy birthday to my queer regency rom-com I Shall Never Fall in Love!!!! overwhelmed by how many people have read and enjoyed it in the last year tbh. THANK YOU to everyone who's read, supported, and/or said nice things, it really means the world #books

Photo of me holding the UK version of I Shall Never Fall in Love surrounded by yellow flowers on a sunny day

Comic panels from I shall never fall in love. A drawing of a girl in a garden clasping another's hands and saying 'you have excellent marriage prospects'. The next panel zooms out so we can see the rose arch looks like a wedding arch, and the other replies, 'I do?'

Comic panels from I shall never fall in love. Two young white people in regency dress dancing very close outside a window, one in an evening dress and the other in a more traditionally masc jacket

Comic panel from I shall never fall in love. A drawing of (the same) two people in skirts sitting in a window seat of a fancy room looking towards two girls by the piano. One says 'do you think her more accomplished than me?' and the other replies 'Well.'

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 23h

Portal 5. Trying to summon the fog back again with this image. Took this photo last winter in the dreamy perpetual fog. If this place isn't haunted I'll eat my hat. #phantomfriday Croxden Abbey

Portrait black and white photo of an arched church window in a ruined stone wall. Through the window, which is taken at an angle, are more of the ruined stone walls and arches and a bare winter tree. They are slightly obscured by the fog.

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 1d

Hospitals are bringing masks back because Covid never left!

But we:

❌ Ignore Covid risks
❌ Don’t clean the air
❌ Deny vaccines to most Clinically Vulnerable
❌ Treat masking as “personal choice” (even HCWs)

It isn’t Living with Covid
It feels like neglect
#KeepCovidBoosters

We have re-introduced mask wearing in some areas

Please wear a mask where you see this poster

Thank you

"Masks remain available for patients, visitors and staff. Please wear a mask in this area"

MHS
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

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Amelia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social · 1d

One from #aughost a few years back… #spooky #twelfthnight #shakespeare #ghost #spirit #art

Picture of a ghostly maiden sat on the literal Monument with the phrase Like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief beneath it

Pencil and white crayon and gold police on Kraft paper

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Robert Lloyd Parry @nunkie.bsky.social · 1d

Three weeks til Hallowe'en and a livestreamed performance of M R James's starkly terrifying "Count Magnus."
Seven members of the jury who viewed the body fainted. Do you have the guts to take a shufty?
Pay-what-you-can here halloweenmagnus.eventbrite.co.uk
& watch live at 8pm (UK) or anytime after

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Sarah @sarahalba.bsky.social · 1d

I love her curly antenna 🥰

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

Subscribe to support our journalism

New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Sarah @sarahalba.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Lindores making his grand declarations to his father and then, the laugh

"And then there was a low laugh close to them--so close that both shrank; a laugh no louder than a breath."

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 1d

Meet my newest creation Edith the Moth Phantom! I designed and hand-sewed her. She enjoys singing sea shanties with her cryptid band. They perform primarily for the moon. She also likes appearing to travelers as good or bad omens, depending on her mood.

jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

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Sarah @sarahalba.bsky.social · 1d

#AScareADay Day 9 – The Secret Chamber by Margaret Oliphant

A Scottish castle and a generational haunting (curse?). I'm not sure how Lindores found strength to turn his back on his ancestor's apparition, but even that isn't the end of his struggles.

But Lindores felt his terrible ancestor's eyes getting once more that mesmeric mastery over him which had already almost overcome his powers. He must withdraw his own, or perish. He had a human horror of turning his back upon that watchful adversary: to face him seemed the only safety; but to face him was to be conquered. Slowly, with a pang indescribable, he tore himself from that gaze: it seemed to drag his eyes out of their sockets, his heart out of his bosom. Resolutely, with the daring of desperation, he turned round to the spot where he entered--the spot where no door was,--hearing already in anticipation the step after him--feeling the grip that would crush and smother his exhausted life--but too desperate to care.

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Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 1d

🎉🎉 COVER REVEAL TIME 🎉🎉

I am so, so hyped to bring you THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY 🥳 coming May 2026!

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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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Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 2d

🎉🎉COVER REVEAL COMING TONIGHT🎉🎉

8PM UK TIME 📚🌈

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Mason @masonhawthorne.bsky.social · 2d

Tim Nicholls, reinstate care for trans youth now!

Trans youth deserve to thrive, and a healthcare system that supports them to grow up healthy, happy and with the freedom to be themselves.

Stop playing dangerous political games with trans young people’s lives.

Australians sign, everyone share!

Tim Nicholls, reinstate care now!

Demand Tim Nicholls reinstate care for trans youth!

transjustice.org.au

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Amelia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social · 2d

It’s the Spooktacular season and Dippyfishcards has a few Scream Queen cards and a bit of Pumpkin Spice for October lovers… Fenella Fuktoff the witch and Teeny, Bitey Mina are ready to send your best wishes. Or a hex. Whatevs…

Dippyfishcards.etsy.com #spooky #cards #halloween #goth #bsnm #mhhsbd

Three spooktacular cards, tiny Bitey vampire mina, hello wine pumpkin andFUCKING WANK Fenella Fucktoff The witch

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 2d

Day 8 of #AScareADay was Rhoda Broughton's 'The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth' and I really loved this one. The letters are genuinely quite fun to read until they're suddenly terrifying.

I enjoyed the way we never know what was seen!

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C. M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 2d

Some thoughts in the post, plus a rec for a film & a book that the story reminded me of. I really loved the tone of the letters, the way they sounded really natural, and the contrast from the day-to-day to the horror of the rented house. Also loved that it was literally indescribable. #AScareADay

C. M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 2d

#AScareADay="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AScareADay – Day 8 – The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing but the Truth by Rhoda Broughton

#AScareADay - Day 8 - Today's short story is epistolary and I really enjoyed it! Rhoda Broughton is worth a read. My response to it is non-fiction this time, in honour of the title, with some…

#AScareADay – Day 8 – The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing but the Truth by Rhoda Broughton

#AScareADay - Day 8 - Today's short story is epistolary and I really enjoyed it! Rhoda Broughton is worth a read. My response to it is non-fiction this time, in honour of the title, with some recommendations for other media on similar themes, plus folklore it reminded me of (yes, the vampire furniture of course!)

cmrosens.com

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