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Hello. I am starting a Substack called Small Finds, for short pieces of non-fiction. If you'd like to read more about it, and perhaps subscribe so that I can share my work with you, please do follow the link. It's free. open.substack.com/pub/smallfin...

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I've just passed 30,000 words on my research leave writing project! I always find 20K to be a threshold of doom whereby if I can't get past it after a few weeks, I never will - so it feels good to have kicked it in the shin.

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I highly recommend this book by @alicevernon10.bsky.social. A deeply personal examination of parasomnias - sleepwalking, sleep paralysis, lucid dreams etc - and how they've reflected and shaped our art and culture. As a fairly frequent lucid dreamer, it was a real eye-opener (no pun intended).

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Week 1 of research leave was an absolute treat. I spent it down in London doing some research, seeing some cool book people, and generally having a bit of a wellbeing break. This week is for typing up the notes I made in the British Library and making progress with writing!

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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

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My automatic replies are on, and my first ever semester of research leave has begun! My plans are to write a fun fiction project I've been thinking about for a little while, continue researching spooky things, and start to put some plans in place for the publication of GHOSTED in September.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Some excellent nonfiction recommendations here, as well as a fantastic and thoughtful review of Night Terrors.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I had the most ridiculous night - I hallucinated twice that a woman's disembodied head, mouth open, was lunging through the darkness to bite me. Then later I woke myself up giggling like a lunatic. Still got it! 😂

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I am very much in the [reptile noises] stage of marking.

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2025 is going to be a very fun year - Book 2 is happening! I'm extremely excited to announce that my new non-fiction book, Ghosted: A Social History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking, will be published by Bloomsbury in September. 😀👻 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ghosted-9...

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

2025 is going to be a very fun year - Book 2 is happening! I'm extremely excited to announce that my new non-fiction book, Ghosted: A Social History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking, will be published by Bloomsbury in September. 😀👻 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ghosted-9...

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Throwback to last year when I joked to a colleague that the Elf on the Shelf was like a poltergeist...and then it became a main news item on The Guardian. 😂 Merry Christmas, all! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

I am home for Christmas, but my plan to make my parents watch Godzilla Minus One and have their minds blown has yet to produce results. I will persist. Annoyingly. 🦖

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

The bedroom as the site of terror. Sweet dreams, everyone! *This is from a piece by @alicevernon10.bsky.social, published in our Yuletide Hauntings 2023.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Happy adoption day to Mr Tiberius "Tibbs" Vernon, part-time cartoon character, full-time scamp. Two years of absolute chaos!

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Aberystwyth in the chilly sunshine this afternoon.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

We're hiring an Agency Assistant! 🚨 Further details about the role and how to apply can be found here: watsonlittle.com/about/careers/ #publishingjobs #publishinghopefuls

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

I accidentally made two Christmas cakes this year. I'm concerned my parents will expect two Christmas cakes as a minimum from now on.

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Check out this call for volunteers 👇 @richamm.bsky.social makes really cool free online zines and if you would like to be part of one around #Horror and #Disability give him a shout! Articles are v. short and for a general audience - so perfect for any possible first time writers and fans. 😁

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Malevolent spectres, incarnations of otherworldly energies, or supernatural companions. Editor @mjpcuervo.bsky.social assembles a party of uncanny on-screen children for the new issue of Yuletide Hauntings. 👉🏼Pre-order on helleborezine.bigcartel.com/products

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

I, too, conclude every evening with a Screaming Extravaganza.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

I went on my first proper ghost hunt at the weekend. I can definitely understand the appeal, not least because it felt acceptable to eat doughnuts at midnight. It was fun!

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

I am officially half-way through writing the first draft of my next book. I also had terrible sleep paralysis and a nightmare about a poltergeist last week. These things are related. 👻

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It would be interesting to see how this compares to parasomnias. In terms of the hours I spend asleep (and by the standards of this article) I'm completely fine, but the things I see and experience in my sleep can mess me right up for days afterwards. www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

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Pals! I am talking about spooky sleepy things on Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3 tonight at 10pm (but maybe don't listen right before you go to bed). Catch up here after the broadcast: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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My contributor copy of Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales: Reconsidering the Short Fiction has arrived! I was so happy to be able to write a chapter for this, and to work with fantastic editors Dr Joan Passey and Dr Rob Lloyd.

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Laughing at this excellent graph depicting belief in Satan and demons. That's the kind of maths I can get behind. (From Bader, Baker and Carson's 'Paranormal America')

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Remember when I joked about writing an article for the university about poltergeists and the Elf on the Shelf? Turns out The Guardian thought it was great idea FOR A MAIN NEWS ITEM. Absolutely hilarious. I have peaked as an academic. t.co/naBrAg6Bwf

submitted 438 days ago • 1 comment

My TEDxAberystwyth talk from last December is now on YouTube, and has had 17K views in 15 hours(!!!). That's absolutely bonkers. You can watch it here if you fancy: youtu.be/ZuPvkoDiSr0?...

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My friend in the university communications team has asked me to write a Christmas-themed article relating to my research. I could be sensible and write about Christmas ghost story traditions, but I am not sensible and therefore am writing about how the elf on the shelf is just a gangly poltergeist.

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