Reading group: Body Snatching and Unruly Anatomies

Sheffield Gothic are excited to announce our first reading group back after the holidays, where we’ll be looking at Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Body Snatcher’ and Sheri Holman’s The Dress Lodger. These delightfully dark stories feature rogue anatomists in desperate pursuit of bodies for their dissection studies. We’ll be meeting online on Wednesday 9th February … Continue reading Reading group: Body Snatching and Unruly Anatomies →

Reading Group – The Dark Side of Fairytales: Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber

Sheffield Gothic are excited to announce our first reading group of this academic year, looking at Angela Carter's collection The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979). These stories highlight the dark potential of the fairytale, using folklore to explore body horror, feminism, and to reinvestigate the Gothic genre itself. We'll be meeting online on Wednesday … Continue reading Reading Group – The Dark Side of Fairytales: Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber →

Reading Group – Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction

Sheffield Gothic Reading Group presents.... Octavia E. Butler's Science Fiction If speculative fiction, sci-fi, the uncanny and the dystopian appeal, then join us in a virtual reading group to discuss Octavia E. Butler's weird worlds on Wednesday 28th April, 3:30 - 5:00pm. As a black woman writing science-fiction, Butler challenged assumptions about the genre's writers, … Continue reading Reading Group – Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction →

Reading Group – Black Narcissus miniseries

If Himalayan Gothic, nuns and dilapidated palaces are your thing, then join the Gothic Reading Group on Wednesday 17th February, 3 - 4:30 pm to discuss the BBC miniseries version of Black Narcissus. We will be focussing on the first episode, but you are welcome to discuss the whole series (all three episodes are available … Continue reading Reading Group – Black Narcissus miniseries →

A Very Ghostly Christmas

Its the most wonderful time of year: with parties for hosting, marshmallows for toasting, caroling out in the snow, and, of course, scary ghost stories! Yes, tied to the festive season is a long tradition of sharing terrifying ghost stories, and where better to look for scary ghost stories than the Nineteenth Century. This holiday … Continue reading A Very Ghostly Christmas →

Pastoral Gothic: Ann Radcliffe and the Sublime

The Gothic Reading Group will be meeting on Wednesday 22ndMarch to continue this semester’s on-going discussion of all things Eco-Gothic. This time around we’ll be focusing on sublime pastoral landscapes.During the session we’ll be thinking about the pastoral mode in relation to the poetry of the Mistress of Udolpho herself, Ann Radcliffe. Radcliffe’s novels are … Continue reading Pastoral Gothic: Ann Radcliffe and the Sublime →