A Mini-Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories!
December 20, 2022
When we decided we wanted to do a whole Gothic Solstice event, we knew one thing for sure – we wanted to talk about Victorian Christmas ghost stories. We’d talked…
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December 13, 2022
The Gothic is an atmosphere. A shiver running down your spine, a stormy sky, a tattered but soft burgundy rug before a roaring hearth. Fairy-tale author Angela Carter once summed…
Read MoreFolklore and Resistance Roundtable Recap!
July 26, 2022
If you missed our Folklore and Resistance roundtable on Sunday, we have fabulous news for you: you can watch the whole thing right here! We also made a gorgeous PDF…
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July 19, 2022
“[S]torytelling [is] a vital human strategy for sustaining a sense of agency in the face of disempowering circumstances. To reconstitute events in a story is no longer to live those…
Read MoreCome See Us LIVE in DC and NYC!
June 7, 2022
Lo these many years ago, before there was a global pandemic, we actually used to do live, in-person events. Like, on stages, in the same room as other people. And…
Read MoreAndersen and Aesthetics
May 24, 2022
Hans Christian Andersen almost psychologically destroyed us. Let us explain. Lo these many years ago, we were but wee PhD students, staring down the barrel of our candidacy exams. At…
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