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Center for Monster Studies @ UC Santa Cruz
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Center for Monster Studies @ UC Santa Cruz @ucscmonsters.bsky.social · 7d
Only 2 weeks before the Festival of Monsters! Keynote 10/15 by David Livingstone Smith, conference 10/16-17, and a day of events including a panel with @almakatsu.bsky.social Nat Cassidy, and @gretchenmcneil.bsky.social at @bookshopsantacruz.bsky.social on 10/18. Details monsterstudies.ucsc.edu
A skeletal monster with a skeleton bird on its tongue is the poster image for the 2025 Festival of Monsters, Oct. 15-18 in Santa Cruz, Calif.
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The Scouse Druid Blog @thescousedruid.bsky.social · 3d
Review: Pantheon: The Irish by Morgan Daimler #gifted scousedruid.com/2025/10/05/r... @moonbooksci.bsky.social @morgandaimler.bsky.social #Bookreview #Pagan
Discover the Irish Pantheon: An Easy Guide for Beginners
A review of Pantheon: The Irish by Morgan Daimler. The latest book brought to you by Moon Books touches on the engmatic Irish pantheon
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Center for Monster Studies @ UC Santa Cruz @ucscmonsters.bsky.social · 2d
If you’re in Santa Cruz at 6:30 pm this Wednesday, join Center Director Michael Chemers, Renee Fox and Kim Lau as they talk tales of the dead at the Santa Cruz Public Library’s Downtown Branch. santacruzpl.libnet.info/event/14673822
Talking Tales of the Undead
Get ready for the season with vampires, ghouls and zombies!
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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 2d
Another really cool book recommendation for #MythologyMonday is Japandamonium by @hirokoyoda.bsky.social and @mattalt.bsky.social. It's a translation of Toriyama Sekien's 18th century yokai encyclopedias and includes the illustrations with translation and annotations, see the images below.
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Front cover of Japandamonium. Open page of book showing illustrations with translation and annotations. Open page of book showing illustrations with translation and annotations. Open page of book showing illustrations with translation and annotations.
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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 2d
My next #MythologyMonday book recommendation is 'The Book of Japanese Folklore' by Thersa Matsuura (@uncannyjapan.bsky.social). It introduces a collection of yokai with Thersa's wonderful storytelling and gorgeous illustrations by Michelle Wang. She's also got a #yokai oracle deck on the way.
Front cover of 'The Book of Japanese Folklore' Illustration of a white nine-tailed fix and red torii in a forest. Illustration of a tengu, winged being with long red nose. Open page of book with text about bakeneko and nekomata and illustration to match.
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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 2d
My final book recommendations for today's #MythologyMonday are for anyone looking for Japanese folktales. The first book by Yei Theodora Ozaki is a collection of the most well-known Japanese tales and the second book by Keisuke Nishimoto is a larger collection containing many lesser known tales.
Two books, Japanese Folktales has an illustration of Kintaro on the cover, Strange Tales from Japan has a ghostly figure on the front.
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d
If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
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Dr. Spencer D. C. Keralis @hauntologist.bsky.social · Aug 22
Excited to return to #FestivalOfMonsters at @ucscmonsters.bsky.social in October with @samlangsdale.bsky.social and @passableghost.bsky.social. Our panel, Monstrous Transformations: Bodies, Gender, and the Disruption of the Social Self, is all about body horror, ecological collapse, and St. Vincent.
Metastatic Masculinity: Penetrating the Male Body in Crimes of the Future. Dr. Spencer D. C. Keralis, Univeristy of Missouri - Kansas City
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 7d
It's pumpkin month!!
illustration showing a large werewolf holding a pumpkin seated next to a woman holding a giant pumpkin in her lap carving it with a small knife. They are in a pumpkin patch under a full moon
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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 7d
Publication day is October 2nd tomorrow. Launch tonight for the first day of the London Month of the Dead at Highgate Cemetery!
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The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social · 7d
Join us on Tues for our next online talk: Fee Greening in conversation about her work, influences, and her illustrated edition of Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies, published last month. Tues 7 Oct, 19:00 BST on Zoom. Tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fee-greeni...
Fee Greening in conversation: Katharine Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies
Artist Fee Greening, inspired by Gothic fairytale and medieval illumination, illustrates a new edition of Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies.
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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 7d
'as a rich and fascinating overview and introduction to British folklore this book is really essential reading for anyone interested in the subject. I know I’ll be returning to my copy again and again' - a lovely review of #Folklore on @shinynewbooks.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/folklore-a-j...
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James Parsons @parsonsfiction.bsky.social · 7d
Here we are in horror month.
Are you set to read certain books or watch specific horror movies in the weeks ahead?
any you haven't read or seen before?
or returning to old classics or personal favourites?
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Center for Monster Studies @ UC Santa Cruz @ucscmonsters.bsky.social · 7d
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Center for Monster Studies @ UC Santa Cruz @ucscmonsters.bsky.social · 7d
Only 2 weeks before the Festival of Monsters! Keynote 10/15 by David Livingstone Smith, conference 10/16-17, and a day of events including a panel with @almakatsu.bsky.social Nat Cassidy, and @gretchenmcneil.bsky.social at @bookshopsantacruz.bsky.social on 10/18. Details monsterstudies.ucsc.edu
A skeletal monster with a skeleton bird on its tongue is the poster image for the 2025 Festival of Monsters, Oct. 15-18 in Santa Cruz, Calif.
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Center for Monster Studies @ UC Santa Cruz @ucscmonsters.bsky.social · Mar 10
How is the human defined in relation to such things as apes and #zombies ? Join us at 4pm tomorrow, March 11, at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social Cowell Provost House to hear Dr. Surekha Davies talk on her new book Humans: A Monstrous History and perhaps provide an answer. monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/davies
Surekha Davies — The Center For Monster Studies
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Center for Monster Studies @ UC Santa Cruz @ucscmonsters.bsky.social · Mar 7
Reminder that the amazing Dr. Surekha Davies comes to UC Santa Cruz next Tuesday for a talk. Join us!
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · Feb 21
HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY will be at the Center for Monster Studies @ucscmonsters.bsky.social at UC Santa Cruz!
Monday March 11, 4pm. 4pm. Cowell Provost House. 1/2

💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/davies
A dark grey book event poster. Middle-right: headshot of author. Lower left: bright red book cover with an oval mirror on it. Poster text: The UCSC Center for Monster Studies Presents Surekha Davies. “Humans: A Monstrous History.” Abstract below: Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. Join award-winning historian of science Dr. Surekha Davies as she reveals how people have defined the human in relation to everything from apes to zombies, and how they invented race, gender, and nations along the way. Tuesday 3/11/2025. 4pm. Cowell Provost House. Co-sponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat LiteraryStudies Endowment and Cowell College.
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Center for Monster Studies @ UC Santa Cruz @ucscmonsters.bsky.social · Mar 3
Join us tonight! 👇🏽
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Center for Monster Studies @ UC Santa Cruz @ucscmonsters.bsky.social · Feb 27
Join us 4:30 pm Monday, March 3 at for a special screening of the Irish folk horror film Fréwaka. Director Aislinn Clarke will be on hand to talk about her “nightmare fuel” film. www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/frewaka-screening. #monsters #film #folklore
Poster — closeup of a woman’s face with red crosses reflected in the eyes. Poster text says “The UCSC Center for Monster Studies presents Fréwaka. An Irish-language horror film written and directed by Aislinn Clarke. Monday, March 3, 2025. DARC 108. 4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.: Film Screening. 6:00 p.m.-6:45 p.m. Discussion with Aislinn Clarke, Renée Fox, and Johanna Isaacson.
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Marion McGarry @marionmcgarry.bsky.social · Feb 27
My new piece @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social is on banshee beliefs in Ireland. It may not be Halloween, but many will profess that she may make an audible appearance at any time of the year!
@atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social

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Do you believe in the banshee?
The common belief was the banshee was a ghostly female messenger of death who would let out a sorrowful wail in an unearthly voice
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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · Feb 27
My Art of the Grimoire is now out in Dutch, Spanish, German, and Japanese! Italian version due in July. Always nice to see one’s work in other languages.
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Mike Muncer @mikemuncer.bsky.social · Feb 21
New episode of The Evolution of Horror out now! @daddydisco.bsky.social joins me to discuss Jordan Peele’s epic banger, NOPE! 👽
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Center for Monster Studies @ UC Santa Cruz @ucscmonsters.bsky.social · Feb 27
Join us 4:30 pm Monday, March 3 at for a special screening of the Irish folk horror film Fréwaka. Director Aislinn Clarke will be on hand to talk about her “nightmare fuel” film. www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/frewaka-screening. #monsters #film #folklore
Poster — closeup of a woman’s face with red crosses reflected in the eyes. Poster text says “The UCSC Center for Monster Studies presents Fréwaka. An Irish-language horror film written and directed by Aislinn Clarke. Monday, March 3, 2025. DARC 108. 4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.: Film Screening. 6:00 p.m.-6:45 p.m. Discussion with Aislinn Clarke, Renée Fox, and Johanna Isaacson.
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · Feb 26
I'm very excited about this Saturday's (1st) talk on

HAIR HORROR!

Come join us ONLINE to hear Dr L. Marie Woods discuss hair's place in horror!

3pm GMT - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/9645994920...

9pm GMT - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/9646058310...
Hair Horror with L. Marie Wood
A talk exploring hair in horror!
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Center for Monster Studies @ UC Santa Cruz @ucscmonsters.bsky.social · Feb 27
We are so excited to have you talk at UC Santa Cruz on March 11! www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/davies
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · Feb 26
HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY on the radio today, **Feb. 26**! Recording available later.

I'm on Tony Livesey's late-night show on BBC Radio 5 Live at: midnight GMT, 6pm EST, 3pm PST. 1/2

#books 🧪 #history #SFF #politics #histsci #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 5 Live - Tony Livesey, 26/02/2025
Tony Livesey with late night conversation and in-depth interviews.
www.bbc.co.uk
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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · Feb 26
REMINDER!
Tomorrow (27th Feb) is the our weather-themed hosted #FolkloreThursday!
Our hosts will share your weather-themed folklore at the following times (GMT):
9am-2pm
3.30-4.30pm
5.30-7.30pm
Don't forget to include the hashtag!
(Image: Woodcut c.1489, public domain)
Woodcut illustration of two women adding a chicken to a cauldron or cooking pot over an open fire, with a rain showering rain above.
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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · Feb 26
In #JapaneseFolklore jubokko are #yokai trees often found on the sites of old battlefields. It is believed that because they absorbed the blood of slaughtered bodies through their roots, they developed supernatural powers, including a vampiric taste for blood. Considering...
#LegendaryWednesday
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A tree with red leaves and skulls around the base.
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