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SUMMARY:Contemporary Gothic Reading Group 2\, Special Edition: Susan Barker Reading Old Soul
DESCRIPTION:As part of Manchester City of Literature’s Festival of Libraries 2025\, Manchester Metropolitan University presents a special edition of its Contemporary Gothic Reading Group. \n\n\n\nThis event will take place at Manchester’s finest neo-Gothic library\, The John Rylands. In this appropriately eerie setting\, Susan Barker will be reading from her recently published novel\, Old Soul\, followed by a Q&A and group discussion. \n\n\n\nIt is free and open to everyone\, but registration is required. \n\n\n\nAbout Old Soul: \n\n\n\nWhen two grieving strangers meet by chance in Osaka airport they uncover a disturbing connection. Jake’s best friend and Mariko’s twin brother each died\, 6\,000 miles apart\, in brutal and unfathomable circumstances. \n\n\n\nEach encountered a mesmerising\, dark-haired woman in the days before their deaths. A woman who came looking for Mariko – and then disappeared. \n\n\n\nJake\, who has carried his loss and guilt for a decade\, finds himself compelled to follow the trail set by Mariko’s revelations. It’s a trail that weaves across continents and centuries\, leading back to the many who have died – in strange and terrifying and eerily similar ways – and those they left behind: bewildered\, disbelieved\, yet resolutely sure of what they saw. \n\n\n\nAnd\, at the centre of it all\, there is the same beguiling woman. Her name may have changed\, but her purpose has never wavered\, and as Jake races to discover who\, or what she is\, she has already made her next choice. \n\n\n\nAbout the author: \n\n\n\nSUSAN BARKER is the author of four books. Her third novel\, The Incarnations\, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Notable Book\, a Kirkus Reviews’ Top Ten Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction. An excerpt from her fourth novel\, Old Soul\, won a Northern Writers’ Award for Fiction in 2020. Susan currently lives in Manchester\, where she is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\n“This is the kind of story you tell around a campfire as the lights of civilization begin flicker out around you; a global\, intelligent\, and ambitious archetypal nightmare” – KRISTEN ROUPENIAN\, author of Cat Person \n\n\n\n“Susan Barker’s Old Soul beguiles\, terrifies\, and utterly seduces you as swiftly and slyly as the mysterious woman at its center. It’s at once a thriller\, a postmodern mystery\, and an existential horror tale\, but perhaps most deeply it speaks to our current moment: the drift and terrors of loneliness\, the risks of intimacy and a piercing nostalgia that never lets us go” – MEGAN ABBOTT\, author of El Dorado Drive \n\n\n\nThis event will be hosted by the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies\, https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/ [manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk] \n\n\n\nThe Contemporary Gothic reading group runs every year between May and July and usually offers a combination of in-person and online events\, including author talks. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, please visit our Gothic Centre website or find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1589997731237020/ [facebook.com]
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/contemporary-gothic-reading-group-special-edition-susan-barker-reading-old-soul/
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Gothic Reading Group 1: T. Kingfisher\, The Hollow Places
DESCRIPTION:Join members of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies for the first of our Spring/Summer Contemporary Reading Groups for 2025. This is the first of a series of 4 reading groups (this year there are two in person and two online). These free sessions\, which we run in the summer months\, give us a chance to explore the prominent role of the Gothic in modern and contemporary culture. Come along for a relaxed conversation among enthusiasts and avid readers. \n\n\n\nThis reading group takes place online on Teams. The Teams link will be emailed to you two days before the reading group\, and on the morning of the event. \n\n\n\nFORMATThe session will be led by one of our postgraduate Gothic researchers Quen Took and Becky Alaise. There is no need to prepare questions or reviews. Please just turn up on the day ready to chat about the book. \n\n\n\nAUDIENCEThis reading group is free and open to everyone\, but please note that regular attendees tend to be postgraduate researchers and members of staff. For this reason\, the group might not suit total beginners. \n\n\n\nFor more information on the Contemporary Gothic Reading Group and other events organised by the Gothic Centre\, please visit our website: https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/ \n\n\n\nor join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1589997731237020 \n\n\n\nIf you’d like to join us for our next in-person Reading Group on 4 June\, which includes a special Q and A with local author Susan Barker\, it is being held at John Rylands Library on Deansgate during the Festival of Libraries. To register\, click here. \n\n\n\nAbout The Hollow Places \n\n\n\nAward-winning author Ursula Vernon\, writing as T. Kingfisher\, presents a terrifying tale of hidden worlds and monstrous creations \n\n\n\nRecently divorced and staring down the barrel of moving back in with her parents\, Carrot really needs a break. And a place to live. So when her Uncle Earl\, owner of the eclectic Wonder Museum\, asks her to stay with him in exchange for cataloguing the exhibits\, of course she says yes. \n\n\n\nThe Wonder Museum is packed with taxidermy\, shrunken heads\, and an assortment of Mystery Junk. For Carrot\, it’s not creepy at all: she grew up with it. What is creepy is the hole that’s been knocked in one of the museum walls\, and the corridor behind it. There’s just no space for a corridor in the museum s thin walls or the concrete bunker at the end of it\, or the strange islands beyond the bunker s doors\, or the whispering\, unseen things lurking in the willow trees. \n\n\n\nCarrot has stumbled into a strange and horrifying world\, and They are watching her. Strewn among the islands are the remains of Their meals and Their experiments. And even if she manages to make it back home again\, she can’t stop calling Them after her. \n\n\n\nThis text has echoes of Algernon Blackwood’s classic tale of supernatural horror\, ‘The Willows’ (1907) – you may wish to give this a read for comparison\, if you’ve not come across it before. Available for free online here.
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/contemporary-gothic-reading-group-1-t-kingfisher-the-hollow-places/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Ann Radcliffe and Women's Gothic Writing
DESCRIPTION:Free public lecture on seminal 1790s Gothic writer\, Ann Radcliffe\, by Dr. Deborah Russell (university of York). \n\n\n\nAnn Radcliffe (1764-1823) was “the great enchantress” of her generation\, in the words of Thomas de Quincey. She changed the face of fiction in the Romantic period and shaped the development of Gothic romance. The extraordinary impact of her work also helped to cement an association between this genre and women writers and readers. But\, of course\, Radcliffe was far from the only woman writing Gothic fiction in the formative early days of the genre. This lecture will explore Radcliffe’s career in the context of the other women who inspired her\, imitated her\, and contested her vision of the Gothic. \n\n\n\nGenerously funded by the AHRC as part of the ongoing Ann Radcliffe\, Then and Now project based at the University of Sheffield. Followed by a drinks reception. \n\n\n\nDr Deborah Russell is a Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of York. Deborah’s research interests focus on Gothic fiction\, with a particular emphasis on women’s writing and discourses of national identity. She also works on Romantic-era theatre\, thinking about silence on stage\, spectacle\, and the politics of adaptation.
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/ann-radcliffe-and-womens-gothic-writing/
LOCATION:Mappin Hall\, Sir Frederick Mappin Building\, Sheffield\, S1 3JD\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Lithic Gathering: a symposium exploring shifting temporalities and mythologies of ritual stone structures within art and visual culture.
DESCRIPTION:This one-day symposium organised by The Scholars of the Stones at MMU gathers Arts and Humanities academics and/or artists working in relation to Neolithic or other ancient stone structures\, focusing on the themes of materiality\, mythology\, affect and temporality. \n\n\n\nRitual/sacred stone structures\, such as henges\, dolmens and cairns of the Neolithic and Mesolithic era have been (re)visited\, (re)used and (re)invoked by societies over the centuries in relation to spiritual\, cultural and functional needs and desires. In the 20thcentury\, within a British context\, Stonehenge featured prominently in visual and popular countercultures\, whilst in the 21st century\, stone-specific or folklore zines and wanderlust communities have emerged in relation to these stone sites. \n\n\n\nProgramme \n\n\n\nPresentations will explore the ways in which these structures – and/or the materiality of the stone/the lithic itself – merges\, redefines or shifts historical and mythological narratives in relation to their manifestations within global visual cultures and artistic practices. \n\n\n\n@scholarsofthestones \n\n\n\nKeynotes: \n\n\n\nProfessor Tim Edensor – Landscape and place\, local shifting meanings and ludic practices\, and the ethic of care for monoliths \n\n\n\nDr Charlotte Coull – Living tradition or dead civilisation? Indian megaliths on British time \n\n\n\nCurrently confirmed panel session speakers include: \n\n\n\nDr Jennie Bailey – The Stones of Rochdale: Three Creative Pieces Inspired by Place \n\n\n\nAnna Gidman and Ralph Parker – Hengeing a house- housing a henge: Revisiting the henge as a design tool and method for living \n\n\n\nDavid Berwick – O Maen \n\n\n\nDr Ian Grosz – This is Our Place: Narrative and Interpretation at the Callanish Standing Stones. \n\n\n\nCristina Moraru – Touching Time: The Aesthetic and Affective Presence of Sacred Stones in Contemporary Photography \n\n\n\nMartha Lineham – Haptic and Tender Practices of Ancient Rural and Contemporary Urban Stone Circles \n\n\n\nPaul Vivian – Acoustics and non-human agency in Neolithic and Bronze Age rituals at Stone Circle sites \n\n\n\nLiúsaidh Ashley Watt – Stones in Focus \n\n\n\nThe presentations vary from short films\, artist show and tells and traditional papers. Final programme released nearer to event. There will be time chaired for questions at the end of each panel session.
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/the-lithic-gathering-shifting-temporalities-and-mythologies-of-ritualstone-structures/
LOCATION:SODA (School of Digital Arts)\, 14 Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:North West Long 19C seminar
DESCRIPTION:\, Wednesday 2 April\, 12-5 pm \n\n\n\nOur friends The North West Long Nineteenth Century Network are a group of Man Met scholars and postgraduates that share interests and collaborate with Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies on aspects and topics of Victorian Gothic. \n\n\n\nJoin them for the next North West Long Nineteenth Century research seminar on the topic of ‘Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century’ that includes contributions on the Gothic in the nineteenth century.  \n\n\n\nDate and Venue: GM G.09A on Wed 2nd April\, 12-5pm. \n\n\n\nProgramme \n\n\n\nInternational Scholar Talk \n\n\n\nWe’re really delighted to have Dr Jeroen Salman from the University of Utrecht join us for the afternoon. \n\n\n\nManchester Scholar Papers \n\n\n\nDr Jodie Matthews (MMU): Title: “Follow the Plants: Rhizomatic Reading Across Borders”   \n\n\n\nClara Dawson (Manchester): Title: “’Avian Poetics: Human-Bird Relations in the Nineteenth Century.”  \n\n\n\nSonja Lawrenson (LJMU and MMU): Title: “The Punch Almanack in its Transnational Contexts” \n\n\n\n‘PhD in Progress Panel’ \n\n\n\nRebecca Alaise (MMU): Title: “Sparring for Sonic Supremacy: Gothicising the Battle Between German and Italian Classical Music in Literature of the Fin de Siècle.”  \n\n\n\nSarah Dutson (MMU): Title: “Transnational Spiritualism in the Neo-Victorian Gothic Context.”  \n\n\n\nHaseeb Khan (MMU): Title: “Seeking a Long History of British Muslim Identity in Liverpool and Manchester.”  \n\n\n\nGareth Rees (MMU): Title: “Why Resurrect David Lloyd George?” \n\n\n\nFor further info and to register please click here. Any questions\, please email Sonja Lawrenson on s.lawrenson@mmu.ac.uk.
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/north-west-long-19c-seminar/
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SUMMARY:Ghosts: In History & Performance 
DESCRIPTION:Ever wondered why Gothic fiction and nineteenth-century ghost stories were often set in old-fashioned country houses? This special event combines a short talk on Gothic architecture by researcher Dr Emma Liggins with a spine-chilling ghost story performance by award-winner writer and theatre maker Adam Z Robinson. \n\n\n\nEmma’s talk\, ‘Gothic architecture and the development of the ghost story’\, asks why tales of haunting dwelt on the ancestral home with its many rooms and corridors from the 1790s to the late nineteenth century. Why was the haunted country house\, castle or abbey so popular with readers? Why were servants key characters? How did this link to travel and tourism? This talk begins with Ann Radcliffe’s popular Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and considers its influence on Victorian ghost stories such as Mary Braddon’s ‘The Shadow in the Corner’\, Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘The Old Nurse’s Story’ and Henry James’ ‘The Turn of the Screw’.  \n\n\n\nAdam Z. Robinson will perform adaptations of Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The Kit Bag’ (1908) and Bram Stoker’s ‘The Judge’s House’ (1891) from his stage show Nightmares. \n\n\n\nDr Emma Liggins is Reader in English Literature in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University and Co-Director of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. She is the author of The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories\, 1850-1945: Gender\, Space and Modernity (2020).https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/ \n\n\n\nAdam Z. Robinson has just finished touring his show Nightmares which includes the performance of 3 classic Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories: Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The Kit Bag’ (1908)\, E. Nesbit’s ‘John Charrington’s Wedding’ (1891) and Bram Stoker’s ‘The Judge’s House’ (1891). https://adamzrobinson.com/ \n\n\n\nTickets are £25 per person. Please note that limited tickets are available. Refreshments will be available on the night.
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/ghosts-in-history-performance/
LOCATION:The Old Dining Room\, Thirsk Hall\, Kirkgate\, Thirsk\, North Yorkshire\, YO7 1PL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:VICTORIAN PSYCHO - Virginia Feito in conversation with Xavier Aldana Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, Manchester\, welcomes Virginia Feito to the shop to discussion her gruesomely brilliant new novel VICTORIAN PSYCHO\, which probes the psyche of a bloodthirsty governess in Victorian England. Virginia will be in conversation with Xavier Aldana Reyes\, a founder of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. \n\n\n\nDoors: 6.30pm\, starts: 6.45pm \n\n\n\nTickets are £4. Admission is free when purchasing a copy the book. \n\n\n\nWinifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll dutifully tutor her charges\, Drusilla and Andrew\, tell them bedtime stories\, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines and the more she learns of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family\, the more trouble she has sticking to her plan. \n\n\n\nWhether creeping across the moonlit lawns in her undergarments or gently tormenting the house staff\, Winifred struggles at every turn to stifle the horrid compulsions of her past until her chillingly dark imagination breaches the feeble boundary of reality on Christmas morning. Wielding her signature sardonic wit and a penchant for the gorgeously macabre\, Virginia Feito returns with a vengeance in Victorian Psycho. \n\n\n\nAbout the author: \n\n\n\nRaised in Madrid and Paris\, Virginia Feito studied English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London. Her first novel\, Mrs. March\, was published in 2021. She writes for Vanity Fair Spain. \n\n\n\nTickets are £4.00. Admission is free when purchasing a copy of the book. If you cannot make the event but would like a dedicated copy of the book\, please email events.manchester@blackwell.co.uk or call us on 0161 274 3331. \n\n\n\nOur event format is usually a 45 minute discussion between the author and interviewer\, followed by a chance for audience members to ask questions. There will be the opportunity to get your book signed/dedicated after the event. Events are a brilliant opportunity to discover new books\, meet authors and likeminded readers and learn something new. \n\n\n\nSupport your local bookshop and help us keep the Manchester literary scene vibrant and exciting. You can follow us on Eventbrite and social media (@BlackwellsMCR) to keep up to date on upcoming events.
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/953/
LOCATION:146 Oxford Road Manchester M13 9GP\, 146 Oxford Road\, Manchester\, M13 9GP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:OLD SOUL - Susan Barker in conversation with Zoe Li
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to celebrate the publication of OLD SOUL by Susan Barker in partnership with Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. Susan will be in conversation with Zoe Li\, founder of online bookshop Juniper by the Sea. \n\n\n\nDoors: 6.30pm\, starts: 6.45pm \n\n\n\nTickets are £4.00. Admission is free when purchasing a copy of the book\, which is available at a special launch event price of £14.99 on the evening or as part of the advance ticket. \n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\nWhen two grieving strangers meet by chance in Osaka airport they uncover a disturbing connection. Jake’s best friend and Mariko’s twin brother each died\, 6\,000 miles apart\, in brutal and unfathomable circumstances. \n\n\n\nEach encountered a mesmerising\, dark-haired woman in the days before their deaths. A woman who came looking for Mariko – and then disappeared. \n\n\n\nJake\, who has carried his loss and guilt for a decade\, finds himself compelled to follow the trail set by Mariko’s revelations. It’s a trail that weaves across continents and centuries\, leading back to the many who have died – in strange and terrifying and eerily similar ways – and those they left behind: bewildered\, disbelieved\, yet resolutely sure of what they saw. \n\n\n\nAnd\, at the centre of it all\, there is the same beguiling woman. Her name may have changed\, but her purpose has never wavered\, and as Jake races to discover who\, or what she is\, she has already made her next choice. \n\n\n\nBut will knowing her secret be enough to stop her? \n\n\n\n“This the kind of story you tell around a campfire as the lights of civilization begin flicker out around you; a global\, intelligent\, and ambitious archetypal nightmare” – KRISTEN ROUPENIAN\, author of Cat Person \n\n\n\n“Susan Barker’sOld Soul beguiles\, terrifies\, and utterly seduces you as swiftly and slyly as the mysterious woman at its center. It’s at once a thriller\, a postmodern mystery\, and an existential horror tale\, but perhaps most deeply it speaks to our current moment: the drift and terrors of loneliness\, the risks of intimacy and a piercing nostalgia that never lets us go” – MEGAN ABBOTT\, author of El Dorado Drive \n\n\n\nAbout the author: \n\n\n\nSUSAN BARKER is the author of four books. Her third novel\,The Incarnations\, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Notable Book\, a Kirkus Reviews’ Top Ten Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction. An excerpt from her fourth novel\,Old Soul\,won a Northern Writers’ Award for Fiction in 2020. Susan currently lives in Manchester\, where she is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\nAbout the host: \n\n\n\nZOE LI is the founder of Juniper by the Sea\, an online bookshop and cultural platform dedicated to writers of East and South East Asian heritage\, particularly those in the diaspora. Zoe is based in Manchester and the bookshop can be found here: www.juniperbythesea.com \n\n\n\nCentre for Gothic Studies: \n\n\n\nThe event is in partnership with the Centre for Gothic Studies at MMU\, which works nationally and internationally to represent and promote the broad field of Gothic and horror studies\, from literature\, creative writing\, culture and heritage\, cinema and drama to television\, art\, architecture\, games and media.
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/old-soul-susan-barker-in-conversation-with-zoe-li/
LOCATION:146 Oxford Road Manchester M13 9GP\, 146 Oxford Road\, Manchester\, Lancashire\, M13 9GP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Contemporary Body Horror by Xavier Aldana Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Join the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies for this book launch to celebrate the exciting recent publication of Contemporary Body Horror (Cambridge Elements\, 2024) by our Centre member\, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. The book addresses biopolitics\, infection\, embodied identities and metamorphosis and the consequences of the biotechnological revolution on the human\, focussing specifically on 21st-century body horror on screen. \n\n\n\nThe event will begin with refreshments from 17.00 in the Geoffrey Manton atrium (outside Lecture Theatre 5 on the ground floor). There will be the opportunity to buy discounted copies of the book at a publisher’s stall. At 17.30 there will be a Q and A with the author\, hosted by Brontë Schiltz\, from the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies\, followed by questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nThis is a free hybrid event\, with the option to join us on campus in central Manchester or online via Teams. If joining online\, the link will be emailed to you two days in advance of the event and on the morning of the event as a reminder. Please book at least 24 hours in advance in order to register for the online link and join us from 17.20 onwards on Teams. \n\n\n\nContemporary Body Horror https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/contemporary-body-horror/10961433A22AB27B686E06079F5EAECF \n\n\n\n‘Body horror’\, a horror subgenre concerned with transformation\, loss of control and the human body’s susceptibility to disease\, infection and external harm\, has moved into the mainstream to become one of the greatest repositories of biopolitical discourse. Put simply\, body horror acts out the power flows of modern life\, visualising often imperceptible or ignored processes of marginalisation and behavioural policing\, and revealing how interrelations between different social spheres (medical\, legal\, political\, educational) produce embodied identity. This book offers the first sustained study of the types of body horror that have been popular in the twenty-first century and centres on the representational and ideological work they carry out. It proposes that\, thanks to the progressive vision of feminist\, queer and anti-racist practitioners\, this important subgenre has expanded its ethical horizons and even found a sense of celebratory liberation in fantastic metamorphoses redolent of contemporary activist movements. \n\n\n\nXavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University\, UK. His publications include the books Contemporary Body Horror (Cambridge University Press\, 2024)\, Gothic Cinema (Routledge\, 2020)\, Horror: A Literary History (British Library Publishing\, 2016)\, Horror Film and Affect (Routledge\, 2016) and Body Gothic (UWP\, 2014). Xavier is co-president of the International Gothic Association and chief editor of the Horror Studies academic book series.
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/book-launch-contemporary-body-horror-by-xavier-aldana-reyes/
LOCATION:Geoffrey Manton Lecture Theatre 5 ground floor\, Oxford Road\, Manchester\, M15 6LL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Portico Gothic Reading Group: Lancashire Folk
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of Gothic Reading with a Lancashire lens. \n\n\n\nCo-hosted by Natalie Zacek\, Senior Lecturer on American Studies\, School of Arts\, Languages and Cultures\, University of Manchester and Dale Townsend\, Professor of Gothic Literature at the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies\, in conversation with Creative Producer\, Dr Debbie Challis. \n\n\n\nFollowing on from the recent “Weird as Folk” exhibition and our successful first session of the Gothic Reading Group earlier this year\, in this participatory session we will be reading and discussing “Lancashire Gothic.” Come along to talk about pre-circulated accounts\, factual and fictional\, of the creatures that lurk in the North of England! \n\n\n\nAll texts provided beforehand for a small contribution at registration.
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/portico-gothic-reading-group-lancashire-folk/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241204T170000
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SUMMARY:Creative Excellence: 'Starve Acre' Film Screening and Author Q&A
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with The Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies and showcasing the Creative Excellence of the Manchester Metropolitan University English Department\, the Festival of Research invites you to join us for a Q&A and chat with award-winning author Andrew Michael Hurley\, followed by a screening of his novel Starve Acre (2019)\, now a major film. \n\n\n\nAndrew Michael Hurley is a novelist and short-story writer of disturbing Folk horror set in and around Lancashire and Yorkshire. His first book\, The Loney\, won the 2015 Costa First Novel Award and the 2016 British Book Industry awards for Debut Novel and Book of the Year. His second book\, Devil’s Day\, was published in 2017 and went on to jointly win the 2018 Royal Society of Literature Encore Award for best second novel. \n\n\n\nThis event showcases the 2023 feature film adapted from Andrew’s novel Starve Acre\, and directed by Daniel Kokotaljo (Apostasy\, Myra) and starring Matt Smith (House of the Dragon\, Last Night in Soho\, Doctor Who) and Morfydd Clarke (Game of Thrones\, Lord of the Rings). \n\n\n\nAndrew’s latest novel\, Barrowbeck\, is released in October 2024. \n\n\n\nJoin Andrew and Dr Eleanor Beal (Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies) for an afternoon of rural isolation\, turmoil and unearthed horror! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPraise for Andrew Michael Hurley and StarveAcre: \n\n\n\n*** Hurley’s feel for landscape as a defining characteristic of horror must count as a large part of what made his 2014 debut The Loney so successful. If anything\, Starve Acre demonstrates an evolution and concentration of his ability to summon a world divided and defined by the uncanny. *** (The Guardian) \n\n\n\n*** A physiological fantasia … vividly alive *** (The Sunday Times) \n\n\n\n*** Hurley has a fine talent for evoking the menace of his northern landscapes; places where weather\, rock and trees embody an active hostility to human endeavour and comfort. *** (The Guardian) \n\n\n\n*** Andrew Michael Hurley is writing the very best folk horror fiction out there. In that\, he has no rival. *** (Revenant Journal) \n\n\n\n*** this slow-burning chiller\, unnervingly scored by Matthew Herbert\, exhumes something primeval and toxic *** (BFI) \n\n\n\nAudience: Staff and doctoral students and the public. Please note\, Starve Acre has been certified as a 15 as it contains strong horror. Running time 96 minutes.
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/creative-excellence-starve-acre-film-screening-and-author-qa/
LOCATION:SODA (School of Digital Arts)\, 14 Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Writing the Gothic with Bronte Schiltz
DESCRIPTION:Comma Press Writers’ days are perfect opportunities for writers of all experience levels to experiment with new forms and meet new people! \n\n\n\nJoin us at Manchester Metropolitain University\, in association with the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies\, for a gothic workshop (10am-12.00pm) led by author Bronte Schiltz\, followed by a panel discussion\, readings and a Q&A (13.00-15.00pm) where Bronte will be joined by fellow gothic authors Leonie Rowland and Alan Smith. \n\n\n\nThis is the perfect chance to ask questions about writing or getting published. There will also be time for any book signings! \n\n\n\nTickets are free of charge but please register in the Eventbrite so we know who’s coming! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-the-gothic-with-bronte-schiltz-tickets-1072923425849 \n\n\n\nFor queries or more info\, please email george.forster@commapress.co.uk
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/writing-the-gothic-with-bronte-schiltz/
LOCATION:Geoffrey Manton Building – Room 223 (workshop)/ Lecture Theatre 4 (panel discussion)\, Rosamond St West\, Manchester\, M15 6EB\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Post-Twilight Austen-Vampire Mashups - research paper by Eric Parisot
DESCRIPTION:We’re delighted to welcome visiting international scholar Assistant Professor Eric Parisot (University of Adelaide\, Australia) to the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies this November. He will be working with our Gothic postgraduates and offering a series of workshops. \n\n\n\nJoin us for this hybrid event drawing on work for Eric’s recently published book Jane Austen and Vampires: Love\, Sex and Immortality in the New Millenium (Palgrave\, 2024). The paper will be followed by a Q and A. Refreshments will be available outside Lecture Theatre 5 before the event. \n\n\n\nFor those signing up for joining online\, the Teams link will be emailed to you two days before the event and on the morning of the event as a reminder. \n\n\n\nAusten Bites Back: Contesting Vampiric Feminism in post-Twilight Austen-Vampire Mashups \n\n\n\nIn this millennium\, two of the most popular literary cults have converged: those of Jane Austen and the vampire. Spurred by the runaway commercial success of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series (2005-08)\, fans have turned the worlds of Austen’s novels into a fantasy space for vampire romance—especially Pride and Prejudice. Some have fully embraced the erotic impulses of a vampiric Mr. Darcy. Others have sought to complicate this post-Twilight romantic fantasy. Amy Elizabeth Davis’ Darcy Bites: Pride and Prejudice with Fangs (2015) might even be said to write back to Meyer’s Twilight—itself inspired by Austen’s famous romance—to redress its potentially regressive and individualist feminism as an erroneous interpretation of Austen’s values. This paper will examine Davis’ Darcy Bites from this perspective\, and especially the relationships of the novel’s women with vampirism. It questions vampirism as a form of female empowerment\, and instead presents it as an obstacle to Austen’s feminist and romantic ideals. In doing so\, Davis’ mashup might be said to self-reflexively renounce the very Austen-vampire trend of which it is part. \n\n\n\nEric Parisot is an Associate Professor in English at Flinders University (Adelaide\, Australia). His primary interests lie in British eighteenth-century literature and culture\, especially related to death and suicide\, the Gothic and the history of emotions. He is the author of Graveyard Poetry (Ashgate\, 2013) and Jane Austen and Vampires (Palgrave\, 2024)\, and co-editor of Graveyard Gothic (Manchester University Press\, 2024). He is also the convenor of Flinders’ Horror and Gothic Group (HaGG).
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/post-twilight-austen-vampire-mashups-research-paper-by-eric-parisot/
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SUMMARY:The History of Emotions and Researching Gothic Literature
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome visiting international scholar Eric Parisot to Manchester Metropolitan University this week to work with our staff and students. This event is only open to students at Manchester Metropolitan University and is on campus. It is hosted by the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies in association with PAHC. \n\n\n\nPlease come to the Grosvenor East building\, GE.3.09 on the third floor. \n\n\n\nEric will discuss his work on the history of emotions and its potential applications to researching Gothic literature. He will talk particularly about his own research on eighteenth-century death and suicide and the ways in which drawing on the history of emotions has helped to shape his research practice. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will be of general interest to any students working in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. There will be opportunity for students to share details of their own research projects and the methodologies they have used for researching the Gothic and/or the history of emotions. \n\n\n\nEric Parisot is an Associate Professor in English at Flinders University (Adelaide\, Australia). His primary interests lie in British eighteenth-century literature and culture\, especially related to death and suicide\, the Gothic and the history of emotions. He is the author of Graveyard Poetry (Ashgate\, 2013) and Jane Austen and Vampires (Palgrave\, 2024)\, and co-editor of Graveyard Gothic (Manchester University Press\, 2024). He is also the convenor of Flinders’ Horror and Gothic Group (HaGG).
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/the-history-of-emotions-and-researching-gothic-literature/
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SUMMARY:Object handling workshop
DESCRIPTION:Special Collections Museum\, MMU\, object handling workshop\, Nicholas Crowe\, Culturally Sensitive Collections Lead (Wellcome Collection\, London)\, 2-4 pm – RISE link to be available shortly\, 10 student places)
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/object-handling-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241027T133000
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SUMMARY:Why Can’t We See the Shrunken Head?
DESCRIPTION:Many people in the local area have fond memories of viewing Tsantsa (the shrunken head) as a child. In fact\, the question we get asked most is ‘where is it and why is it not on display?’ \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, we invite you to share your memories of our shrunken head\, before we explore the reasons it isn’t on display. You’ll learn the history of our particular item from our Collections Curator Gina\, and hear from expert Nicholas Crowe\, as they outline the history of tsantsa\, how they were produced and current thinking around displaying these items.  \n\n\n\nNicholas Crowe is the Culturally Sensitive Collections Lead at Wellcome Collection\, London. He is responsible for assisting in the development of policy frameworks for restitution and repatriation\, including human remains. Acting as a source of expertise in relation to the management of culturally sensitive collections\, Nicholas’ role contributes to improving Wellcome’s ability to develop\, manage\, describe\, and interpret collections with complex and multi-layered contexts and histories. Prior to this role\, Nicholas was Assistant Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum\, University of Oxford.  \n\n\n\nNote – The shrunken head will not be in display as part of this talk. 
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/why-cant-we-see-the-shrunken-head/
LOCATION:Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery\, Haslingden Rd\, Rawtenstall\, Rossendale\, BB4 6RE
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SUMMARY:In Conversation With Andrew Michael Hurley
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Andrew Michael Hurley’s latest spine-chilling novel\, Barrowbeck\, a sublimely dark slice of folk horror centering on the titular village of Barrowbeck on the Yorkshire-Lancashire border\, whose inhabitants are plagued by an unforgiving presence from the past at its eeriest. Andrew Michael Hurley will be joined by local author and lecturer\, Jenn Ashworth. \n\n\n\nDoors will open from 18:30 and some refreshments will be provided. Please be aware that this event will take place on the 1st floor where there is no lift access.
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/in-conversation-with-andrew-michael-hurley/
LOCATION:Waterstones\, 3-5 Fishergate\, Preston\, PR1 3NN
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T143000
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SUMMARY:Writing the Gothic with Bronte Shiltz
DESCRIPTION:A free writers event hosted by Comma Press. Explore gothic literature with author Bronte Shiltz\, with readings\, workshops and a Q&A session. \n\n\n\nComma Press Writers’ days are perfect for beginner writers to experiment with new forms and meet new people! \n\n\n\nJoin us in Manchester this October for a gothic workshop\, led by author Bronte Shiltz\, followed by a panel discussion where Bronte will be joined by fellow writers Leonie Rowland and a second TBC. \n\n\n\nThis is the perfect chance to ask questions about writing or getting published. There will also be time for any book signings! \n\n\n\nTickets are free of charge but please RSVP so we know who’s coming! \n\n\n\nDate and location TBC. Will take place the weekend of October 19/20th in central Manchester. Email george.forster@commapress.co.uk for more info. \n\n\n\nOrder (approximate) \n\n\n\n10.45-12.15 pm workshop – led by Bronte Schiltz12.15 pm -12.45 pm – Break for Lunch12.45 – 2pm – Readings\, Panel & Q&A \n\n\n\nAbout the authors: \n\n\n\nBrontë Schiltz is a journalist with The Big Issue and Big Issue North\, a freelance contributor to Horrified Magazine\, and a PhD candidate with the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University\, where she researches the Televisual Gothic (horror on and about TV). She is a writer of short stories\, flash fiction\, creative non-fiction\, poetry and theatre\, and her work has featured in publications including Lotus Eater Magazine\, Olney Magazine\, The First Line and Hungry Ghost Magazine. She has also appeared on podcasts including The Ghost Story Book Club\, Victorian Legacies\, BERGCAST and Chronicles of the Quarter Life. \n\n\n\nLeonie Rowland is a therapeutic writing practitioner and meditation teacher with an unexpected background in Gothic literature. She is the author of In Bed with Melon Bread (2021) and This Time of Life is Meant for Savages (2023). Leonie was a postgraduate with the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at MMU and\, several lifetimes ago\, the Co-Director of Grimmfest and the Editor-in-Chief of The Hungry Ghost Project. She is currently friends with most of her ghosts. \n\n\n\nAbout Comma Press: \n\n\n\nFounded by Ra Page and Sarah Eyre\, and formally incorporated in 2007\, Comma’s initial purpose was to redress the dearth of short story publishing opportunities in the UK\, bringing award-winning writers like David Constantine\, Sara Maitland and Adam Marek to new audiences. Our popular\, long-running ‘Reading the City‘ series has proven that people’s engagement with place can override other barriers to reading fiction in translation\, and has now visited over 20 cities worldwide. Our interdisciplinary commissions celebrate the short story’s ability to take deep dives into cutting-edge research\, and our ‘Futures Past‘ series has delivered ground-breaking anthologies of science fiction from Palestine\, Iraq\, Kurdistan and elsewhere. \n\n\n\nComma has an international reputation for excellent and ground-breaking commissioning. Our titles and authors have won multiple awards ranging from the World Fantasy Award (Robert Shearman’s Tiny Deaths\, 2008) and the Shirley Jackson Award (The New Uncanny\, 2008) to the BBC National Short Story Award (David Constantine\, 2010the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award (David Constantine’s Tea at the Midland\, 2013)\, the Caine Prize (Bushra Al-Fadil\, 2017)\, and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (Hassan Blasim’s The Iraqi Christ 2014) – the first time it had been won by a short story collection or a book translated from the Arabic. Our podcast was shortlisted for the 2019 FutureBook Award\, Podcast of the Year\, and\, as a publisher\, we won the 2020 Small Press of the Year (Northern Region) at The Bookseller’s British Book Awards. In 2017 we also won the inaugural Northern Soul Northern Publisher of the Year Award. Comma has published two subsequent Nobel Prize winners; it has sold rights to its titles into over 30 languages\, sold 7 titles to Audible\, seen over 60 stories broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and had two stories adapted for the big screen: POSSUM (dir. Matthew Holness) and 45 YEARS (dir. Andrew Haigh)\, the latter receiving an Oscar nomination for Charlotte Rampling\, winning 2 Silver Bears at Berlinale and being voted The Guardian‘s No. 1 best film of 2015.
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/writing-the-gothic-with-bronte-shiltz/
LOCATION:Hope Mill Theatre\, 113 Pollard Street\, Manchester\, M4 7JA
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SUMMARY:Ghost story performance: 'The Cry of the Bubák' by Adam Z. Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Join storyteller Adam Z. Robinson as he performs his ghost story ‘The Cry of the Bubák’ and chats about his new touring show Nightmares. \n\n\n\nGhost story performance: The Cry of the BubákWritten and performed by Adam Z. Robinson \n\n\n\nJoin storyteller Adam Z. Robinson as he performs his ghost story ‘The Cry of the Bubák’. A haunted man flees to a health facility in mainland Europe to escape his past\, only to have it catch up with him in a most horrifying way. Guaranteed to make the flesh creep. \n\n\n\nThe performance (25 minutes) will be followed by a Q and A\, as Adam chats about his work for the theatre\, including his new production Nightmares. Refreshments will be available. \n\n\n\nThis event takes place in person and is hosted by the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Poetry Library. The Poetry Library is fully accessible. \n\n\n\nAdam will be touring his brand new show NIGHTMARES October – November 2024. The show\, which is made up of three classic ghost stories\, will tour to twenty-three venues nationally. For a full list of dates and venues\, visit: https://linktr.ee/tbodal \n\n\n\nIf you’d like to produce ghost stories of your own\, you might also be interested in coming along to this workshop earlier the same day\, where you can join Adam for some tips on writing your own spooky fiction: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ghost-story-writing-workshop-with-adam-z-robinson-tickets-1020479400357?aff=oddtdtcreator \n\n\n\nPraise for Adam’s previous work\n\n\n\n“Everyone needs to see this show.” – ★★★★½ Reviews Hub on Upon the Stair“‘Utterly gripping\, mesmerising\, beautiful\, expressive and creepy. I’ve never seen anything like this before: don’t miss it.” – Jenn Ashworth\, author of Ghosted\, Fell and A Kind of Intimacy on Unhomely“Scared out of my pants… an absolute delight” – Amber T\, writer for Fangoria and Arrow Video on Haunted \n\n\n\n“A must-see production.” – Northern Soul ★★★★★ on Shivers“Kept me enthralled from the very beginning… delightfully sinister fun.” – British Theatre Guide on Shivers“An unmissable evening of creepiness.” – Weekend Notes
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/ghost-story-performance-the-cry-of-the-bubak-by-adam-z-robinson/
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SUMMARY:Ghost Story Writing Workshop with Adam Z. Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Join writer and performer Adam Z. Robinson for a special Halloween creative workshop and learn how to write spine-tingling ghost stories. \n\n\n\nEver wanted to create your own spine-chilling tales? Do you want to improve your creative writing craft? Join writer\, theatre-maker and workshop leader Adam Z. Robinson for this thrilling and productive workshop on ghost story writing. You’ll look at building tension and atmosphere\, creating riveting narratives and backstories\, explore how best to structure a ghost story and consider the all important question: how do we make ghost stories scary? Writers of all experience welcome. \n\n\n\nThis event takes place in person in the Grosvenor East building on the third floor (Room 3.13) at Manchester Metropolitan University. There will be tea and coffee on arrival. It is funded by the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. \n\n\n\nYou might also be interested in staying on to see Adam’s performance later that evening in Manchester Poetry Library: \n\n\n\nAdam Z. Robinson is a writer\, theatre-maker and prize-winning author of flash fiction. His work includes: Upon the Stair (“Everyone needs to see this show” – ✭✭✭✭½ – The Reviews Hub) and Smile Club (✭✭✭✭ – The Guardian) co-written with Andrea Heaton. His plays The Book of Darkness & Light and Shivers toured nationally between 2016-2019. As well as his original plays\, Adam has adapted classic works for the stage: Nightmares (touring October-November 2024)\, Haunted (two national tours\, 2023) and A Christmas Carol (national tours 2019-21; residencies in London and Canada). \n\n\n\nAdam’s other writing includes: Conscientious (national tour 2014)\, Belle & Mary (a true crime play commissioned by The Dukes Lancaster\, 2021) and Seaside Terror (national tours 2017-20) with OddDoll Theatre. His most recent play\, Unhomely\, premiered at Leeds Playhouse in 2024. Adam is the host of The Ghost Story Book Club podcast.
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/ghost-story-writing-workshop-with-adam-z-robinson/
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Workshop: Female Gothic
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Hurley\, Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University\, will lead this creative writing workshop\, using weird and wonderful items from The Whitaker collections. Inspired by the female gothic\, join us as we explore items including a Scold’s Bridle\, Witches Jugs and various pieces of artwork in this creative session.  
URL:https://manchestergothic.mmu.ac.uk/event/creative-writing-workshop-female-gothic/
LOCATION:Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery\, Haslingden Rd\, Rawtenstall\, Rossendale\, BB4 6RE
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