Edward Parnell
@edward_parnell
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Author of 'Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country' (HarperCollins, shortlisted 2020 PEN Ackerley Prize), and 'The Listeners', winner of Rethink Novel Prize
East Lothian, Scotland
Joined November 2014
This will be a good one! Join @IcySedgwick and me as Icy gives a Zoom talk on Seances and Female Mediums in British Cinema. Weds 28 May at 8pm . Tickets and info: It'll be recorded for ticket holders who can't make tomorrow.
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Labour are backtracking on a plan to help save birds: by blocking a new rule that would make developers put a £35 nest brick in every new home. They think it'll help win them votes - we need to show it would do the opposite. Sign the petition
act.38degrees.org.uk
Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition...
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An entertaining review here of 'Eerie East Anglia'! @BL_Publishing . Wot Eye Juste Dun Red | Eerie East Anglia | Honest Book Review:
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Strange things happen when you read 'Ghostland' in a Whitby hotel room. Thanks to Kieran Wyatt for sharing this wonderful story with me.
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Didn’t expect to see a Basking Shark with the Forth Bridges as a backdrop when I got up today! #gonnaneedabiggerboat
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RT @ST0NEHENGE: One of Britain’s rarest – and strangest – birds is back at Stonehenge again. The Great Bustard was affectionately christene….
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I feel the journalists missed a real (albeit very niche) trick here by not headlining this story as: . 'Whatever Happened to Barbara Santini?'.
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Looking forward to hosting Antony Clayton's Zoom lecture for @TheLastTuesdayS on Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. Thurs 10 April at 20.00 UK time. It'll be recorded for ticket-holders if you can't it make live on the night. Tickets here:
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Delighted to have a piece about 'Werewolf of London' and other old werewolf movies in this issue.
New issue on sale! The mysterious death of Netta Fornario; London Uncanny; Tibet's Paradise Valleys; Werewolf of London; Beatles UFO sightings; weasels stole my plimsole; screaming mummies; snailien invasion; Zizian killing spree; secret space lasers!
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Looking forward to hosting Prof Richard Hand's Zoom lecture for @TheLastTuesdayS on the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol – the Parisian 'Theatre of Horror'. Weds 19 March at 19.30 UK time. It'll be recorded for ticket-holders if you can't make live on the night.
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I'm looking forward to hosting @Sarah_Peverley 's online lecture on the Feejee Mermaid for @TheLastTuesdayS this Thurs 13 Feb at 7.30pm (UK time). If you can't make it on the night it's recorded for ticket holders. #mermaids Tickets & further details at:.
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RT @VisitDerby: 👻 Dare to enter the UK Ghost Story Festival in Derby! .@museumofmaking.📅 21-23 Feb.Join top horror and ghost story writers,….
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RT @SteJHoward: This was such a wonderful book. Fascinating, tender, thoughtful. Highly recommended. Read my 5-star review of Ghostland: I….
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RT @ThatOneSycamore: And here is the actual recent piece in the TLS about two pillars of Jamesiana and East Anglian ghost lore, Edward Parn….
the-tls.com
No one casts a shadow quite as rich and deep over the history of the English ghost story as does Montague Rhodes James. Henry James, Edith Nesbit, Susan
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Learn about the Decadent Count Stenbock – 'scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men' – in an online lecture by @JFMachin16 for @TheLastTuesdayS this Weds 22 Jan at 8PM UK time. It'll be recorded for ticket holders - details here:
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A nice charity shop find - a 1963 1st edition I’ve not come across before.
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Great to receive my copy of Antony Clayton’s gloriously detailed delve into all things House of Usher today - ‘Mansion of Gloom’ from Accumulator Press: #EdgarAllanPoe.
accumulatorpress.bigcartel.com
Edgar Allan Poe’s atmospheric tale of madness and premature burial has intrigued and disconcerted readers ever since it first appeared in 1839. In...
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I'm looking forward to hosting Dr Joanna Page's (of @ORCA_web and @Cambridge_Uni) online talk on whale & dolphin folklore/mythology next Weds at 19.30 for @TheLastTuesdayS. Tickets and further info here: .
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