Events

View instruments and manuscripts of Gothic-themed compositions from the RNCM archives, accompanied by music written by composer Lucy Hale You are invited to the first of a series of collaborative events between the Royal Northern College of Music Archives and the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies (Manchester Metropolitan University). This is a free event open to […]

Stage Fright: Staging the Ghost Story This event is presented by the Performance Research Group x Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. Ghost stories have long been associated with performance. Many of us have enjoyed the thrill of sharing the telling of spooky tales around the winter fireside, or the thrill of dressing up as a […]

What do Gothic novels and the supernatural have to do with feminism? A surprising amount. Back in the 18th century, Gothic novels and ghost stories – many written by and for women – began to gain serious popularity. Behind the eerie castles and haunted houses, many of these stories explored big questions about women’s roles […]

Overview Join us for the launch of Livi Michael's second novel! We are thrilled to welcome Livi Michael back to Blackwell's on the 17th of February to discuss her latest novel Elizabeth & Ruth. Livi will be in conversation with Emma Liggins, co-director of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. There will also be a special themed […]

Comma Press define the artifice story as a ‘type of short story doesn't derive its power from a “surprise” revelation, or from the slow development of a central image, but from the unlikely insertion of a seemingly incompatible ingredient right at the start.’ This format, which diverges from the more traditional epical story (which culminates […]

Join ebb & flo bookshop in The Studio at Chorley Theatre for an evening of conversation with two outstanding storytellers of dark folklore and modern gothic. Liam Higginson ‘The Hill in the Dark Grove’   Welsh author Liam’s debut novel set deep in the mountains of North Wales, is a story about a lost way […]

Manchester Blackwell's presents an eerie evening of gothic fiction with Michael Stewart and Yvonne Battle-Felton

York Festival of Hauntology York Literature Festival and the Hauntology & Spectrality Research Group have partnered to launch York’s first-ever festival of Hauntology. From Saturday 21st -Sunday 22nd March, authors from across the country will gather to celebrate Folk Horror & the Urban Wyrd. Including appearances from Ramsey Campbell, Dan Coxon, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Andrew […]

Dark, disturbing and quieltly devastating, Night Babies is the haunting new novel from Lucie McKnight Hardy -  a pitch perfect slice of folk-horror that sees a troubled artist haunted by her past in rural Wales. Lucie will be in conversation with Andrew Michael Hurley (Starve Acre, Barrowbeck) and the talk will be followed by an audience Q&A […]

Follow in the footsteps of Romantic-era poet and Gothic novelist Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), whose St Alban’s Abbey; A Metrical Romance (1826) brings to life the opening battle of the Wars of the Roses at  St Albans in 1455. Join Dr Elizabeth Bobbitt, Professor Dale Townshend and award-winning writer Rosie Garland (Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature) for […]