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That’s a wrap on this year’s UK Ghost Story Festival- another wonderful event, all thanks to the hard work of @alexdavis1981.bsky.social & team. My duties at the Festival concluded with interviewing Edward Parnell about his beautiful literary memoir #Ghostland. The perfect end to a great weekend.

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@drtimrideout.bsky.social interviews Edward Parnell (author of Ghostland) on the final day - and the final panel - of this year's #Ghost #Story #Festival @museumofmaking.bsky.social

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Delighted to be back at @museumofmaking.bsky.social for this year's #Ghost #Story #Festival, a weekend dedicated to #books and to all things #gothic and #spooky. @folklorepod.bsky.social @willowwinsham.bsky.social @alexdavis1981.bsky.social @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social

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Loved discussing witchcraft in fiction with @traceynormanauthor.bsky.social @cathrynk.bsky.social @ekleewriter.bsky.social Celebrating all that fiction can do, including giving voice to the marginalised, providing a way of decoding societal anxieties, and demonstrating the power of stories 🖤

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Took part in a wonderful discussion about #witchcraft in #fiction today, moderated by @drtimrideout.bsky.social and featuring the brilliant and inspirational @cathrynk.bsky.social and @ekleewriter.bsky.social - please give them a follow! Good things to come - watch this space! #witchsky #Booksky📚💙

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The @backlisted.bsky.social Biography / Memoir special is totally NOT rekindling my literary crush on Elizabeth Jane Howard...

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THE SHADOW KEY by @sstokeschapman.bsky.social Not only is ‘The Shadow Key’ one of my favourite new novels - a beautifully written Gothic tale full of Welsh folklore, mystery, suspense and history - it’s author, Susan Stokes-Chapman is the perfect interviewee, articulate, interesting & interested.

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‘Like one, that on a lonely road Doth walk in fear and dread…’ Evoking Samuel Taylor Coleridge, @sstokeschapman.bsky.social’s THE SHADOW KEY exemplifies the #Gothic novel at its unsettling best. An atmosphere of myth, mystery and threat pervades the novel. A great book, highly recommended!

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I am enjoying THE SHADOW KEY by @sstokeschapman.bsky.social greatly. It’s an accomplished combination of unease, terror, mystery and folklore, and I love it. The #Gothic at its best. And it quotes Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘mission statement’ of dread, from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798).

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Tonight’s movie: THE TOMB OF LIGEIA dir. Roger Corman #RogerCorman #EdgarAllanPoe #Gothic #GothicCinema @arrowvideo.bsky.social

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Glastonbury Abbey, earlier today. February’s grey could not dampen the Abbey’s charm.

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I appear to be available to preorder at ⁦Waterstones‬⁩ 😊 How exciting! 🖤 www.waterstones.com/book/gothic-...

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Glastonbury Abbey, from my back garden. The light is winning ❤️

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Home. Today. As a friend of my late Mum’s just said to me, I’m a Glastonbury boy. And I always will be.

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Night Tracks from @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social, a sleepy tea, and my next bedtime book, #TheCure by the incomparable @evesmithauthor.bsky.social 🖤 @orendabooks.bsky.social 🙏

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Queer horror 🥰 building my little collection. Feel free to ask about any of them if you're curious! #BookSky #QueerBookworms

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A very special evening at the Lincoln Assembly Rooms chatting to @alexhaybooks.bsky.social about his wonderful novel, ‘The Queen of Fives’, for Lindum Books. Victorian con women, the sensation novel, and of course Alex’s brilliant articulation of his writing approaches - we covered a lot 😊

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Lincoln’s Windmill. The early February late afternoon light lingers.

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“For years, a masculinist current in American culture and politics has been rising, largely in digital spaces outside traditional media and entertainment,” Joseph Bernstein writes. “Now, it has flooded the banks of the mainstream.”

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Interview preparation for @ghoststoryfest.bsky.social Pandora by @sstokeschapman.bsky.social 🖤 #Pandora @vintagebooks.bsky.social

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Black Thorn is insanely cheap for the whole of February. If you fancy reading a slow-burn psychological thriller with an autistic main character, fill your boots 🧡 rb.gy/yt7mlh

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My winter reading exploration of Central and Eastern Europe continues with ‘Hrdý Budžes’ by Irena Dousková, one of the most famous Czech prose works published since the Velvet Revolution.

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Tempted to stay up to make sure January actually ends.

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It has a cover 😱 and soon to be an Actual Thing... books.google.co.uk/books/about/...

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‘Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make.’ Bram Stoker - Dracula Paul Kenyon’s ‘Children of the Night’ is an outstanding achievement, narrating the history of Romania with empathy, honesty, clarity and passion. #ChildrenoftheNight #Romania @paulkenyontv.bsky.social

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The day has arrived! ‘Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction’ is now available to pre-order. We live in Gothic times. www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...

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What a launch! 😱 Huge congratulations to Kate Griffin and Marcia Hutchinson aka Lila Cain on the launch of #BlackbirdsOfStGiles 🐦‍⬛ So moving to celebrate with you at Hatchards Piccadilly and hear a beautiful reading by the awesome Paterson Joseph 🥳 Get your pre-orders in asap (it’s out Thursday)

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this has genuinely made me want to rewatch Blake's 7, shit

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It’s always an absolute blast to visit ⁦‪Waterstones Piccadilly‬⁩ 🤩 Thank you to the lovely booksellers who stickered like mad in my wake when I dropped by this afternoon 📚 Signed copies of all titles in store now! #waterstones #booksky

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Called into @waterstones.bsky.social Piccadilly this evening - visited their @thebookerprizes.bsky.social library - just amazing 🖤

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Rich in character, plot & adventure, #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles by #LilaCain immerses the reader in a vivid, explosive recreation of 1780s London, a place of danger and oppression, but also of friendship and love. This novel pulses with excitement & emotional power www.visitlincoln.com/event/an-eve...

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It’s an @openuniversity.bsky.social TMA weekend, focused on approaches to global justice. This year’s course couldn’t be more relevant. #socialscience #philosophy #globaljustice #PeterSinger #ThomasPogge

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Lincoln Cathedral, in the winter sunshine.

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It’s a copy editing day. Publication day draws ever nearer…

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Great book post today: ‘The Red Shore’ by #WilliamShaw Due to be published in July 2025, #TheRedShore is the first in a new crime series set in Devon. I admire William Shaw’s work greatly and will have the pleasure of chatting with him at this year’s @baytales.bsky.social

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