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Remembering Justin Edwards (1970-2023)

This is the post I never thought or wished I could write.
Call for Papers: Progression, Regression, and Transgression in Gothic World Literature & Film: New Approaches to the Ethics of Difference

A Gothic-Without-Borders Conference - September 29th to October 2, 2023, fully online
The International Gothic Association Early-Career Essay Prize 2022-23

The International Gothic Association is pleased to invite submissions to their biennial Postgraduate Student Essay Prize.
New Publications

Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, Penny Dreadfuls: Investigations of Pernicious Tales of Terror and Penny Bloods: Gothic Tales of Dangerous Women
Fireside Tales of Terror: The Gothic and Winter

“Horrors belong as naturally to the fireside, as fireside belongs to Christmas” declares the narrator of the piece “Fireside Horrors for Christmas” in the December 1847 issue of Dublin University Magazine.
My First Encounters with Gothic, or How I Became a Horror Researcher

This may come as a surprise to anyone who knows me, given I have ended up writing about some truly gruesome texts in my adult life, but I was quite squeamish as a child.
‘I am Heathcliff’: My ‘first’ encounter with gothic

It’s almost impossible to pin down the earliest memory of gothic in my life. As I was growing up, Italian TV was not as strictly regulated as it is in the UK and I was exposed to all sorts of age-inappropriate materials, particularly coming from Japanese manga.
Allan Lloyd Smith Prize Shortlist

The International Gothic Association is delighted to announce the shortlist for this year’s Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for the best monograph in Gothic Studies (2019–2022).