Sheffield Gothic presents: our Spooky Places to Visit Picks for Halloween! Its a Gothicists favourite time of the year, so what better time than Halloween to share some of our favourite spooky recommendations! Whether you prefer Terror Gothic or Horror Gothic, if you like your frights to be strictly PG, or if you just need a break from slaying all that evil – settle in with our spooky picks. And if you like any of our recommendations, or want to share some of your own, don’t forget to tweet us at @SheffieldGothic!
Category: Travel
Goths On Tour: Sheffield Gothic attends the IGA and explores a very Gothic Mexico
Unless you’ve been hiding out in a remote convent, been on the run from a vengeful feudal Lord, or have been imprisoned by a vampiric count in his Transylvanian castle, you’ll probably be aware that the IGA’s 13thBiennial conference took place last month. Hosted by UDLAP in Cholula, Mexico, and running from 18th-21st July, this … Continue reading Goths On Tour: Sheffield Gothic attends the IGA and explores a very Gothic Mexico
The Found Manuscript
It was late in the Special Collections room at the National Library of Scotland on November 27th, 2015… I had been scrutinizing 17th Century MSS all day, examining the surviving works of Robert Kirk, the Minister of Aberfoyle, best known for his extra-ordinary monograph, The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies – the … Continue reading The Found Manuscript
A Gothic Story: Revisiting Strawberry Hill
On a recent visit home, my mum wanted to take me out for the day, and I knew exactly where I wanted to go. Travelling from Essex, and on one of the hottest days this summer, I dragged my mum from one side of London to the other to visit a very Gothic location buried … Continue reading A Gothic Story: Revisiting Strawberry Hill
"Reimagining the Gothic 2015" – Road trips, ruins and Regency heroines, or The lack of method behind the madness
Considering that the idea was mostly formed over a table in a Manchester Nando’s and a bench in a train station, Reimagining the Gothic was a surprising success, thanks entirely to those who participated, delivering wonderful papers and creative projects. And amidst these excellent projects- creative writing, the short films and the storytelling (accompanied by … Continue reading "Reimagining the Gothic 2015" – Road trips, ruins and Regency heroines, or The lack of method behind the madness
One does not simply mallet Udolpho: Pre-imagining the Gothic in Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing
Those of you with long memories (or a fondness for exploring the dusty archives of this blog) may recall me from such Sheffield Gothic Blog Posts as that one about the poet nobody had ever heard of, that other one about not really getting H.P. Lovecraft and that first one no one ever read. I’ve … Continue reading One does not simply mallet Udolpho: Pre-imagining the Gothic in Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing
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