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
Photo by Charles Parker on Pexels.com Welcome back to the Dead Days, and to the first of our posts exploring liminality and thresholds in the Gothic. Today, we’ll be thinking about the boundary between life and death, and those who exist in-between: the eerie undead. The undead crop up over and over in the Gothic, … Continue reading The Dead Days: Life and Death
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
Our Everyday Gothic series explores day-to-day experiences that have reminded us of the Gothic – whether these were spooky, unsettling, or just a little odd. In this post, Megan Stephens talks about the ghostliness of watching a show at the same time as someone on the other side of the globe. I recently watched Netflix’s … Continue reading The Haunting of Netflix Watch Parties
The Centre for the History of the Gothic presents: A Half-day Online Symposium May 20, 2021 ***Extended deadline for proposals: April 9 2021*** 2020 was a seemingly unprecedented year. A global pandemic erupted even as the US was seized by another wave of anti-Black violence perpetrated by law enforcement and supported by terrifying groups of … Continue reading CFP: Cults, Cthulus, and Klansmen: The (Hi)stories within Lovecraft Country
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
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