Professor @robertedgar.bsky.social shares an update on the myriad activities and impacts of the Hauntology & Spectrality Research Group at the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Research Group Snap Presentation afternoon.
#folkhorror #hauntology

We're at the York Literature Festival today 👻

1pm. Intro to Folk Horror & Pop Hauntology (with Rob Edgar & Adam J Smith)

2pm. In Conversation with Olivia Issac Henry

4.30pm. York Hauntologists read The Withered Arm

7pm. Bob Fischer's Haunted Generation

#YorkLitFest #FolkHorror

Who is Jimmy, where is he and what was wrong with his mum? Who, or what are the Distaff? And why are the community at Sorrow Spring trying to recruit young girls....?

Post your comments, thoughts, theories from your first week of #FolkHorrorFeb reading below! 👻

You can read at your own pace or follow our reading schedule. All you need to get involved is to grab a copy of Sorrow Spring & post your reflections using #FolkHorrorFeb We'll share your responses with Olivia at @yorklitfest.bsky.social on 8 March.

More info:
blog.yorksj.ac.uk/englishlit/f...

#FolkHorrorFeb starts tomorrow!!

The @yorkstjohn.bsky.social
Hauntology & Spectrality Research Group are counting down to their live interview with Olivia Isaac-Henry at @yorklitfest.bsky.social
on 8 March by leading a read-along of her novel Sorrow Spring & everyone is welcome to join in!

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Join us in York on Saturday 8th March for our HAUNTOLOGY, SPECTRALITY & FOLK HORROR DAY at the York Literature Festival, featuring:

Bob Fischer
Olivia Isaac-Henry
Robert Edgar & Adam Smith
York Society of Hauntologists

Book here: yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/

#FolkHorror #YorkLitFest

Our Bloomsbury Book Series "Spectres, Hauntings & Horrors" is run in association with the Hauntology & Spectality Research Group based at @yorkstjohn.bsky.social.

Find out more about the group's research, or sign-up yourself, here:

blog.yorksj.ac.uk/hauntology/

#Hauntings #FolkHorror

Our Bloomsbury book series examines those lingering revenants of the past & ghostly "lost futures" so central to the critical concepts of hauntology & spectrality.

Does this sound like your research? Then please, be in touch! 👻

#Hauntology #Hauntings #FolkHorror