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. Doors: 6.30pm, starts: 6.45pm Tickets are £4. Admission is […]

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. Doors: 6.30pm, starts: 6.45pm Tickets are £4.00. Admission is free when purchasing a copy of the […]

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 […]