Dr Sam Hirst
@RomGothSam
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Catsitter. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Author of 'Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764-1834'
Todmorden, England
Joined June 2017
What roles did women play in theorising, popularising, writing, publishing and reading the early Gothic? Come find out! https://t.co/omJ5LHLtfQ
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Catch the latest Romancing the Gothic video here https://t.co/Mrp3RhHzjK
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Catch the latest Romancing the Gothic video here https://t.co/Mrp3RhHzjK
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Have you ever wanted to do a course with me? Wanted to explore women's writing in the long-eighteenth century? Over a year, all online, costing a mere $55 dollars!!!!! Now's your chance! https://t.co/A4DEAAXGEL
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The Saturday Romancing the Gothic blast from the past this week is Hellscapes in Nineteenth-Century Fiction with Ruth-Anne Walbank Did you miss it at the time? Catch it now! https://t.co/UyXxHmvFig
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Did you see last week's talk on Matthew Lewis' (of 'The Monk' fame) dramas? https://t.co/4R7sHQaOXn
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? about today's #AScareADay,: Is the vampire actually WW1 personified (or vampire-fied?)?The last 4 stanzas particularly contain a lot of war-like imagery.I really love this poem:the rhyme scheme,the nightmarish language."Basilisk" appears again!And there are dancing skeletons!
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#AScareADay @GothicRomancing brings us Conrad Aiken’s The Vampire. She comes weeping, her eyes “so sweet, so poisonous,” and all who follow her are lost. Desire and death move together like the plough through flesh and bone. 🌒 https://t.co/wjzKAHRBGJ
poets.org
She rose among us where we lay
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https://t.co/LOqAlRtbWQ I'm with H.P. Lovecraft (see his thoughts at site in link,also has link to an abridged version with different ending) on today's #AScareADay, "The Canal" by Everil Worrell.I love the atmosphere, the narrator's solitary nature,the vampires! 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
deepcuts.blog
In the new issue I found more good stuff than usual. “The Canal” is truly fine—real terror woven into the inmost atmosphere—& “Bells of Oceana” comes close to packing a …
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Today's #AScareADay, "The Tarn" by Hugh Walpole, is some diabolical fun. It hooked me from the very beginning (one character wants to throttle another in the very 1st sentence!).Contains shades of "The Telltale Heart".That ending! 👍
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What roles did women play in theorising, popularising, writing, publishing and reading the early Gothic? Come find out! https://t.co/omJ5LHLtfQ
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I took down the pictures I've had pinned to my profile for 7 years. They were beautiful and personal and I wanted to share a beautiful story of kindness. But, and I know it's too late, the thought of them being scraped or regurgitated makes me feel physically sick.
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Did you miss last week's talk on the Cumbrian poet and early vampire writer John Stagg? Catch it here -
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Listen to it here read by the magnificent @RomGothSam
https://t.co/1RhO9o8jjv
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https://t.co/eIvSULeZNj In today's #AScareADay the speaker's anguish is palpable; it's no wonder, considering the author's short tragic life.Strangely,when I saw the cover of the book linked above,he reminds me of Wilde's lover,Douglas--it's his cousin!
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Our @cncsi C19 #Gothic Afterlives programme is now live! 🌴@gothicmmu Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America 📖 @RomGothSam Adapting Heathcliff 📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves 🎮 Marijke Valk occult gaming 📺 @drdjohnston Gothic TV Register ➡️ https://t.co/Gy9HEs8vs9
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https://t.co/nqMQbmbZzY Rhoda Broughton's #AScareADay ghost story begins with 2 delightfully snarky Wildean friends' banter and ends in sheer terror.What did the maid & Ralph see?One can only imagine.Links:Analysis, & the real house that inspired the tale
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You can sign up for the talk on Sunday 12th October at 10am OR 7pm British time 10 - https://t.co/ByXO44u0Ri 7 -
eventbrite.co.uk
This talk explores the pivotal role of women in the rise of the early Gothic and its massive popularity
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