Frankenstein: Crafting a Tale Eternal, a tie-in exhibition to celebrate the new Netflix Frankenstein, opens to the public on 17 October at The Old Selfridges Hotel in London. Love this!

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Charles Addams’s cover illustration for The New Yorker (1961):

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I apologized and said: “I didn't realize that a little tap would scare you so much."

The driver replied, "Sorry, sorry… Not your fault. It’s just that… today is my first day as an Uber driver - I've been driving a hearse for the last ten years…”

#GothicJokes

This morning, I tapped my Uber driver on the shoulder to ask a question. The driver screamed, lost control of the car, and stopped inches from a wall.

For a second, everything was quiet. Then he said, "Look, mate, don't ever do that again!”

Leaning back in surprise…

Meet Mary Ann Baxter, a major philanthropist and co-founder of University College, Dundee, the forerunner of the University of Dundee. The deed of endowment stated that the college should promote "the education of persons of both sexes and the study of Science, Literature and the Fine Arts". Legend.

As Dundee is a city of creativity and design our Humanities team is launching a brand-new Taught Postgraduate course this September: Writing for the Creative Economies (MLitt, part time). For more information and to apply visit: www.dundee.ac.uk/postgraduate....

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I’ll be delivering the Nora Bartlett Memorial Lecture for the Scottish branch of the Jane Austen Society. Title: “Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and the Gothic Imagination”. Date: 18 October. Place: Pitbauchlie Hotel, Dunfermline.

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“Whare ghaists and houlets nightly cry” (Robert Burns, ‘Tam o’ Shanter’)

#GothicBurns #BurnsNight2025

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Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt) was born #otd in 1887

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