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Robert Edgar
@robertedgar.bsky.social
Writer and Academic. Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University. Scriptwriting, Music Memoir, Hauntology, Folk Horror, Science-Fiction
Now available in paperback, just in time for Christmas.
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A great launch of The Wandspringer last night at York Explore hosted by York Literature Festival. @foolscapquill.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The Wandspringer published by @foolscapquill.bsky.social. A middle-grade novel about the importance of family and friends and also the dangers of totalitarian governments. www.robertcedgar.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
There's nothing better than opening a parcel of books! @foolscapquill.bsky.social

The Wandspringer- available now.
August 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
There will be a York Literature Festival book launch on Thursday 23rd October, 6pm at York Explore. You can get a copy there. It is also available at Blackwells, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, amongst others. It will be appearing soon on other catalogues and can be ordered from independent bookshops.
August 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I'm very pleased to announce that my novel, The Wandspringer, is now available in print and ebook. Published by the fantastic Foolscap & Quill (foolscap-quill.com/wandspringer.html) The Wandspringer is a middle-grade time-travel/cold war espionage story.
August 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Very pleased to have a chapter on CUD: Rich and Strange @cud.bsky.social (thanks to @williampotter.com) in Rereading Musicians and their Audiences edited by @profkirsty.bsky.social, Tom Attah and Christian Lloyd
July 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Discussing hauntology at the Ghosts in Britain and Ireland 1500-1950 Conference, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
June 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Can't wait to get stuck in. A recommendation from the great Ramsay Campbell as well.
February 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We are very pleased to announce a new Bloomsbury Academic series.

Spectres, Hauntings and Horrors

The series editors are Dawn Keetley, Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social and myself.

More information below.

Logo & illustrations by the fantastic Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social
October 19, 2024 at 12:32 PM