Our Holiday Gothic series takes a look at the darker sides of celebrations throughout the year. In this post, Megan Stephens explores the influence of Irish authors on the Gothic for St Patrick's Day. Happy St Patrick’s Day! Today, as drinks run freely and rivers run green, here at Sheffield Gothic we’re celebrating by having … Continue reading An Irish Tradition
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The Dead Days: Epilogue
Happy New Year’s Eve! Thank you for joining us once again, at the end of the Dead Days, the end of the year. We hope you’ve enjoyed reading our posts this week, and that your own Dead Days have been pleasant (if a little uncanny). Whatever your plans for tonight, whether you stay up to … Continue reading The Dead Days: Epilogue
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: 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: Life and Death
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 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
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