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earlymodernhorror.bsky.social
Part time lecturer, full time anxious wreck. Writing a/the book on Early Modern Horror. Also research videogames and contemporary Horror. Reviewer for TheSixthAxis.com
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Watching Suckerpunch (not sure why except it's leaving Prime soon) and Sweet Dreams as the song playing during a SA threat scene is certainly a choice (lyrics of 'Some of you want to be abused...') One could never accuse Snyder of subtlety or nuance.

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Went to see Grand Theft Hamlet this evening (and chat afterwards with friends and colleagues Prof Alison Findlay and @earlymodlancs.bsky.social). Expected to be fascinated by the uncanny confluence of two of my main research areas but was not prepared for how emotional and thought-provoking it was.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Browsing the Kindle offers today and this absolutely cursed cover came up in the recommendeds. Could write an entire thesis on how this is the most wonderfully misunderstood image choice:

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

Just left Nosferatu. Not gonna say much as so early for spoilers but think this might become another obsession alongside Eggers' other films. Due to watch it again in a couple of weeks and anticipate picking up loads of extra details. Very much in convo with Francis Ford Coppola Dracula too.

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Do you like #horror, #gothic, #occult and #videogames? We've got the event for you! The Dark Arts Research Group at the Univ. of Copenhagen is hosting a 3-day conference btwn 13-15 Aug 2025. The CFP is open and we have some bursaries available. Please share! Details 👇 engerom.ku.dk/english/rese...

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Having to take a break from marking to work a shift in my second job at the museum. Joys of juggling multiple fractional contracts :( Here's a picture of my baby Tash to liven up your day.

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A reminder that the Middle Ages in the Modern World conference (MAMO) is back for its fifth outing in 2025! Proposals for papers, panels, workshops or other events accepted until 13th Jan 2025. More info at themamo.org.

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Journal of Games Criticism has a new issue out! Special issue on videogames and the post-Anthropocene, posthumanism and the post-apocalypse, edited by @larrymay.me and @poppywilde.bsky.social. Plenty of exciting new papers. Check out Larry's thread below.

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

I wasn't necessarily expecting today's discussion of Volpone to involve the strange resurgence of 'cuckolding' and the linguistic shift from horns to the cuck chair but it is perhaps the bones of a provocative conference paper....

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Apropos of nothing in particular, in Mario and Luigi Brothership challenging boss battles can be made easier by Luigi having sudden ideas that result in massive damage and guaranteed critical hits. So it's Nintendo canon that Luigi is super effective against bosses.

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Watching the Greenwich Theatre production of Volpone on Dramaonline really opened my eyes to the play's surprising fixation on genital uncertainty. I've always noticed the focus on sterility but this is a new take for me. Anyone know any work in this area?

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Not gonna lie. After two weeks laid up with bronchitis and related asthma flare-ups, this long commute in darkness isn't quite the boost in the arm I need. Volpone today - not always a well attended week at the best of times...

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Update. It looks like itch.io is back up. #gamenews #gaming #videogames

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@pataloon.bsky.social My review is up now :)

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Come to the online launch of the Special Issue of Film-Philosophy, “Catherine Malabou, Plasticity, and Film” co-edited by Ben Tyrer & me! We are joined by the philosopher Catherine Malabou herself, as well as contributors to the Issue. Monday 25th November, 5-6pm GMT on Zoom.

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After Dawn Keetley mentioned it the other day I watched The Mad Death, an 80s BBC miniseries about a rabies outbreak and man, what a nostalgia trip. Definitely deserves some more attention and a DVD rerelease rather than the £90 it goes for (I may have found a cheaper alternative...) /

submitted 101 days ago • 3 comments

Reposting here as well as the bad place. This looks like an amazing upcoming conference. Get your abstracts in guys :)

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CfP alert! 📢 Mythological Game Studies Conference @maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2! For more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 102 days ago • 9 comments

Persuasive argument here. I'm reminded of how I introduce new students to Renaissance Lit and warn against the dual fallacies of 'nostalgia' and 'unfettered progression'; all media is simultaneously part of a wider context as well as a self-contained thing.

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

I’m organising a conference: 'Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes: Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics' at the University of Kent, 23-24 June 2025. Keynote presenters: Leah Cowan and Agnes Woolley. #hostileenvironment #migration #refugeestudies

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Finally reading Lindqvist's The Kindness (which involves a seeping horror that leaks from a shipping container in which refugees have been left to die) and it is simultaneously heartbreaking and topical. My trite analogies to the effect on society of the likes of Twitter aside it sounds a warning.

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