Melissa Raines McCauley
@drmcraines.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool; interested in literature and psychology, crime fiction, horror, film and television adaptations, and Victorian realism (yes, I'm a little all over the place); dog mom; views my own; she/her
Clive Bixby, before and after the groomer 🐾
May 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Clive Bixby, before and after the groomer 🐾
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excitement of seeing my first published story in print pairs nicely with the dread of being perceived
out with @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 1st may💘
out with @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 1st may💘
April 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
excitement of seeing my first published story in print pairs nicely with the dread of being perceived
out with @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 1st may💘
out with @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 1st may💘
Morgan
24 April 2016-4 April 2024
24 April 2016-4 April 2024
April 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Morgan
24 April 2016-4 April 2024
24 April 2016-4 April 2024
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At one of his frequent press conferences (because he loves being on TV), I'd love it if some reporter piped up with, "What do you say to people who call you a know-nothing narcissistic asshole, Mr. President?"
April 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
At one of his frequent press conferences (because he loves being on TV), I'd love it if some reporter piped up with, "What do you say to people who call you a know-nothing narcissistic asshole, Mr. President?"
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My hometown paper ☕️💅🏽
April 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
My hometown paper ☕️💅🏽
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Cory Booker, winding down: "We need a greater love in this country a greater fight in this country a greater determination." And re: Strom Thurmond: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. The people are more powerful."
April 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Cory Booker, winding down: "We need a greater love in this country a greater fight in this country a greater determination." And re: Strom Thurmond: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. The people are more powerful."
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Clive Bixby cheering on runners at the Liverpool Half Marathon 🐾🏃♀️
March 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Clive Bixby cheering on runners at the Liverpool Half Marathon 🐾🏃♀️
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The older I get the more I think massively generalized writing advice like “NO ADVERBS!” or “always cut words that you can!” are only actually helpful during a very specific period in one’s education, and later are almost entirely antithetical to developing style.
March 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The older I get the more I think massively generalized writing advice like “NO ADVERBS!” or “always cut words that you can!” are only actually helpful during a very specific period in one’s education, and later are almost entirely antithetical to developing style.
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📚 Postgraduate Open Weeks
Discover master's courses, research opportunities, and funding options!
🙋 In person: Wednesday 12 March
💻 Online: 24-28 March
More information 👇
www.liverpool.ac.uk/postgraduate...
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social @commmedia.bsky.social
Discover master's courses, research opportunities, and funding options!
🙋 In person: Wednesday 12 March
💻 Online: 24-28 March
More information 👇
www.liverpool.ac.uk/postgraduate...
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social @commmedia.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
📚 Postgraduate Open Weeks
Discover master's courses, research opportunities, and funding options!
🙋 In person: Wednesday 12 March
💻 Online: 24-28 March
More information 👇
www.liverpool.ac.uk/postgraduate...
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social @commmedia.bsky.social
Discover master's courses, research opportunities, and funding options!
🙋 In person: Wednesday 12 March
💻 Online: 24-28 March
More information 👇
www.liverpool.ac.uk/postgraduate...
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social @commmedia.bsky.social
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Texas. Where the lone star is a review.
NEW: A first-of-its-kind analysis by @propublica.org found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
February 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Texas. Where the lone star is a review.
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We join with publishers, authors, booksellers & librarians to affirm that the White House executive order recognizing only two sexes constitutes censorship and has no place in a free society.
University presses strive to give voice to the breadth of human knowledge & experience.
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University presses strive to give voice to the breadth of human knowledge & experience.
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February 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
We join with publishers, authors, booksellers & librarians to affirm that the White House executive order recognizing only two sexes constitutes censorship and has no place in a free society.
University presses strive to give voice to the breadth of human knowledge & experience.
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University presses strive to give voice to the breadth of human knowledge & experience.
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Ten days to go until Derby gets that little bit spookier for three days of the UK Ghost Story Festival! We have a fantastic line-up of talent joining us for three days of talks, panels, interviews, workshops and more... www.ticketsource.co.uk/ukghoststory...
February 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Ten days to go until Derby gets that little bit spookier for three days of the UK Ghost Story Festival! We have a fantastic line-up of talent joining us for three days of talks, panels, interviews, workshops and more... www.ticketsource.co.uk/ukghoststory...
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A new CFP from the Victorian Institute:
vi2025.wordpress.com
vi2025.wordpress.com
Victorian Studies: Who Cares?
The 2025 conference of the Victorians Institute
vi2025.wordpress.com
February 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
A new CFP from the Victorian Institute:
vi2025.wordpress.com
vi2025.wordpress.com
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Just re-upping this petrogothic CFP for the Monday crowd! Feel free to share!
An exciting CFP for an essay collection on petrogothic and petrohorror! Feel free to share widely and write to us with questions or ideas (contact info in full CFP).
drive.google.com/file/d/18472...
drive.google.com/file/d/18472...
Haunted by Hydrocarbon Call for Papers.pdf
drive.google.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Just re-upping this petrogothic CFP for the Monday crowd! Feel free to share!
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I went looking for snowdrops today as it's Candlemas - they're supposed to bloom at Candlemas so they're known as 'Candlemas bells'. They're also called dewdrops, death's flower, Eve's tear, February fair-maids, and Mary's tapers. Round our way, they also came out in mid-January! #PlantFolklore
February 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I went looking for snowdrops today as it's Candlemas - they're supposed to bloom at Candlemas so they're known as 'Candlemas bells'. They're also called dewdrops, death's flower, Eve's tear, February fair-maids, and Mary's tapers. Round our way, they also came out in mid-January! #PlantFolklore
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I am Master of Ceremonies at a new horror fest, HORROR IN THE HOGWILLS at Sedbergh, England's Booktown at Midsummer! Featuring Andrew Michael Hurley, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Priya SHarma, Robin Ince and many more! Tickets available from 8th February.
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
HORROR IN THE HOWGILLS
Ten acclaimed authors, experts in the art of making flesh creep and spines tingle, are gathering in Sedbergh England's Booktown at Midsummer...
www.trybooking.com
February 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I am Master of Ceremonies at a new horror fest, HORROR IN THE HOGWILLS at Sedbergh, England's Booktown at Midsummer! Featuring Andrew Michael Hurley, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Priya SHarma, Robin Ince and many more! Tickets available from 8th February.
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
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Where can you get Tudor Gothic, Women's apocalyptic writing, monster-f**king, deadly dance, folklore and landscape, doppelgangers, horror theatre, grave-diggers, horror-making on a budget, Poe and Mesmerism, Gothic tourism and more all in one place?
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...
Goths for Breakfast 2025
Romancing the Gothic is running an online charity event to support Magic Breakfast, which provides school breakfasts for children who need them. The event is a day of online classes and workshops w…
romancingthegothic.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Where can you get Tudor Gothic, Women's apocalyptic writing, monster-f**king, deadly dance, folklore and landscape, doppelgangers, horror theatre, grave-diggers, horror-making on a budget, Poe and Mesmerism, Gothic tourism and more all in one place?
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...
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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
Does this sound like your research? Then please, be in touch! 👻
#Hauntology #Hauntings #FolkHorror
January 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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
Does this sound like your research? Then please, be in touch! 👻
#Hauntology #Hauntings #FolkHorror
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This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
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The only safe thing for my mind’s health is to shut my ears and go on with my work.
January 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The only safe thing for my mind’s health is to shut my ears and go on with my work.
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Set in houses that should provide protection but instead turn on their inhabitants, ‘Make a Home of Me’ is about all the ways in which our sanctuaries can turn into foreign places, casting us as strangers as we roam the halls
deadinkbooks.com/product/make...
deadinkbooks.com/product/make...
January 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Set in houses that should provide protection but instead turn on their inhabitants, ‘Make a Home of Me’ is about all the ways in which our sanctuaries can turn into foreign places, casting us as strangers as we roam the halls
deadinkbooks.com/product/make...
deadinkbooks.com/product/make...
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