This post contains spoilers for Season 6, Episode 1 of Riverdale. Welcome to Rivervale ‘There’s a town that exists at the borderlands. A place of nightmares and dreamscapes. A place where folklore and myth carry the weight of fact and truth.’ I watch as Jughead Jones walks towards me on a lonely, forest road. Both … Continue reading Shirley Jackson Re-Imagined in Riverdale
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The Dead Days: Shifting Genres
Photo by Adrien Olichon on Pexels.com Welcome back to our Dead Days series, where we’re delving into ideas of liminality and thresholds in the Gothic, inspired by the in-between nature of this time of year. For this post, we’ll be thinking about how the Gothic not only features many indefinable elements, but is often indefinable … Continue reading The Dead Days: Shifting Genres
The Dead Days: The Fin de siècle
Welcome back to the Dead Days: a time of year that always makes me think about thresholds, the jumping off-point from one space or time to the next. These liminal days between Christmas and New Year are always heavy with expectation, excitement, or dread for the year ahead, and it is here, in these Dead … Continue reading The Dead Days: The Fin de siècle
The Dead Days: Stories Within Stories
Welcome back to our Dead Days series, where we are revelling in the eerie in-between nature of the year’s end by thinking about ideas of liminality and thresholds in the Gothic. For today’s post, we’re looking at the boundaries which exist within texts: those between narratives, which readers cross over alongside characters. Opening Up The … Continue reading The Dead Days: Stories Within Stories
The Dead Days: Prologue
The Book Of Dead Days cover. Image credit https://marcussedgwick.com/product/the-book-of-dead-days/ Welcome to the Dead Days. What are the Dead Days? They’re the time between Christmas and New Year, when the year is ending but it hasn’t quite yet, when the excitement of the holiday season has given way to a sense of waiting, not unpleasant but … Continue reading The Dead Days: Prologue
The Gothic Epidemic
Across the centuries, the social and cultural impacts of epidemics have resonated with writers. Whether concerned with the spiritual implications of these catastrophic events, as in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), issues of individual versus collective responsibility, such as in Albert Camus’s The Plague (1947), or questions about the limitations and … Continue reading The Gothic Epidemic
Sheffield Gothic 