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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 22h

In Dinah Mulock’s The Last House in C–– Street, a quiet London home hides a secret so long buried it comes back in ghostly form. Some houses remember what we’d rather forget. 🕯️ #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social

Read it here:

gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/06062…

https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/06062…

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 1d

It did take me a little while to fully understand it!

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 2d

@romgothsam.bsky.social

Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 2d

A weary traveller enters a warm cottage- yet one look at his eyes turns comfort to dread. There’s something not quite human in that “ghastly fair” face…& all are glad when he hides it again. #AScareADay Read Emily Brontë’s ‘And now the house dog stretched once more’
en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Com...

The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë/And now the house dog stretched once more - Wikisource, the free online library

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Poems_of_Emily_Brontë/And_now_the_house_dog_stretched_once_more

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 3d

Deep below, the Kraken sleeps 🌊 vast, ancient, and dreaming of the world’s end. Alfred Tennyson’s sea monster still stirs. #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social

poets.org/poem/kraken

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for providing the accessible copy and audio because the original was making my eyes boggle!!

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 4d

You 100% have!!

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 4d

My favourite so far!

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 4d

Today’s #AScareADay, got me reading The Buried Alive by John Galt (1821) ⚰️ A beautiful story about everyone’s worst nightmare- to be conscious while dead. It ends on an electrifying note ⚡️

Read it here: romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/19/t...

The Buried Alive by John Galt (1821)

We’re closing in October and I’m preparing for our annual #AScareADay challenge. I’ll be putting up the full list in the next week but today I’m posting one of our upcoming …

romancingthegothic.com

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 4d

Health allowing, I am planning an M. R. James post from 1st December every evening to Christmas Eve. This will include items and artefacts from my own collection, some of them extremely rare #Book #ghosts #DeadDecember 👻📚

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 5d

Read it here: gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/060...

The Sand-Man and other stories

gutenberg.net.au

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 5d

“But what we children detested most of all was his big coarse hairy hands…he delighted to touch [our food] until bright tears stood in our eyes.” 🍰💀

Today’s #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Sandman (1816) brings terror to the table, where even sweets turn uncanny.

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 5d

It really was 😆

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 5d

The Elopement

Sometimes you don’t need to get thee to a nunnery because the nuns will try to get to thee…persistently! What a great story for @romgothsam.bsky.social
#AScareADay

en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Lit...

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 6d

📖 Read it: poets.org/poem/hag
🎧 Listen : youtu.be/pGPeozcz4DM?si…
📜 Full challenge list romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/the��

Dare you walk with the Hag tonight? 🌙✨

The Hag

The Hag is astride

poets.org

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 6d

👻 Thrilled that #AScareADay is back with @romgothsam.bsky.social! Each day we get to creep into a different eerie tale or poem from the challenge list and share our thoughts.

🕷️ October 1st - Robert Herrick, The Hag (1648)

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 28d

In this bonus episode of Fear Feasts presents @serveitforthfest.bsky.social
I share how I found my way into food history and why I’m curious about the foods people make and the meanings behind them. 🍞📖🍇

Listen on all podcast platforms 🎧

#ServeItForthFest

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

Bonus Episode: Serving Food History Forth presented by Fear Feasts

Podcast Episode · Fear Feasts · 10/09/2025 · 1h 1m

podcasts.apple.com

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you :-)

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · Sep 3

Feast yourselves! (darkly, or lightly)

Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · Sep 3

My work on dark food has been published in The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Memory Studies.

Very pleased to finally hold a physical copy @panmacmillan.bsky.social

It’s a privilege to have my work on dark food included in this volume alongside such excellent scholarship.

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · Sep 3

My work on dark food has been published in The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Memory Studies.

Very pleased to finally hold a physical copy @panmacmillan.bsky.social

It’s a privilege to have my work on dark food included in this volume alongside such excellent scholarship.

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · Sep 2

The latest issue of Haunted Magazine is here in my witchy hands!

I explore ghosts in the theatre – from 18th-c. spirits to 2:22 A Ghost Story @dannyrobins.bsky.social & the return of the actor-ghost 🎭

✨Plus my interview with @adamzed.bsky.social Don’t miss it!

👉 hauntedmag.com

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · Aug 25

What is happening!! 😯

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · Aug 24

Wow, that is really amazing!! Imagine being able to see him in action, what a dream!

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · Aug 24

Loving the Sounds and Senses Panel at Romancing the Gothic's #WarningToTheCurious conference: Kendra Leonard on Sound and Music, Alessandra Pino on Dark Memory and Dark Food, and now Sam Hirst on Listening for Ghosts and Radcliffe's 'Supernatural Explained.' All fantastic.

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · Aug 24

Thank you so much

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