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Dr Sam Hirst

@romgothsam.bsky.social

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Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Gothic romance. Queer Gothic. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · Jan 23

Job Application Update Thread 2025 - now on Bluesky!

For those who are new, I do one of these every year, to keep track of my applications.

Let's go!

a close up of a man 's face with the word woo written below him

Alt: Nicholas Cage screaming WOO!

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 2h

Metaphorical or a little romantic cannibalism. Who can say!

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 2h

I've been missing these, sorry! The hashtag is #AScareADay if you were missing the rest of us :)

How dis the catch up go?

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 9h

I wish they'd got to ask him!

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Julia O’Connell @juliajoyce.bsky.social · 10h

Day 12 of #AScareADay is “A Little Room” by Madeline Wynee, yet another unfamiliar author.

It’s a brilliantly frustrating story about a disappearing room and a pair of spinster sisters who cause generations of couples to doubt each other and themselves.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 11h

There's that one moment when the younger sister almost reacts and that just makes it worse.

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 12h

It all just makes my skin crawl

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Sarah @sarahalba.bsky.social · 12h

#AScareADay Day 12 – The Little Room by Madeline Wynee.

Ok, what's up with those Aunts?? That was a pretty unsettling story. Not so much because the room comes and goes but because the main inhabitants of the house give no sign that whether room or closet it has never been any other way.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 12h

Yes! We've read poems by Bannerman, Robinson and Dacre and a short story by Wilkinson!

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 12h

It was fun to give a talk today on women in the Gothic! I hope it gave people things to add to their 'to be read' list!

It's always lovely to talk with the Romancing the Gothic community. So many great questions and ideas today!

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 12h

Amazement (said in the flattest possible tone)

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 13h

At some point... she just got tired xD

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 13h

Allow me to introduce you the magical world of Meeke's titles

(Image in Anthony Mandal's article 'Mrs Meeke and Minerva: The Mystery and the Marketplace'

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C. M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 16h

#AScareADay="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AScareADay – Day 12 – The Little Room by Madeline Wynee

#AScareADay - Day 12 - Today's story is about a room that only sometimes exists. I've got a story of my own like that from my own neurodivergent childhood, so I'm sharing that for Day 12!

#AScareADay – Day 12 – The Little Room by Madeline Wynee

#AScareADay - Day 12 - Today's story is about a room that only sometimes exists. I've got a story of my own like that from my own neurodivergent childhood, so I'm sharing that for Day 12!

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Eldritch Girl Podcast @eldritchgirlpod.bsky.social · 14h

#AScareADay - audio for my thoughts & recordings of my creative responses going live Monday 13th Oct with Days 01-07!

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Eldritch Girl Podcast @eldritchgirlpod.bsky.social · 14h

IT'S HAPPENING
S05 of Eldritch Girl is only going to be a very short little season, and will have a few longer episodes for October.

Days 01-07 of the challenge, with my thoughts on each of the little spooky reads plus my creative responses using them as prompts each day, goes up tomorrow (Mon 13)

Purple Halloween graphic with cobwebs, spiders, creepy trees, black cats and pumpkins in an outdoor scene. Text reads: A Scare A Day, RomancingTheGothic dot com October Reading Challenge. Eldritch Girl.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 13h

😱

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 15h

Love!

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 16h

15) Mr Rochester of Hornfield by G Scott Gray

The best thing about this erotic parody (?) of Jane Eyre is the title. It's a bit wasted on a very mediocre reworking. Sorry in advance to attendees of my class on romance and Jane Eyre. Also, 'womanly cavern of sweet delight'? 🤢

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Sarah @sarahalba.bsky.social · 17h

Sam's talks are full of knowledge and really engaging. Looking forward to listening to this tonight

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 21h

If you're thinking 'wow, I'd like to more', you can still get tickets to the talk at 7pm tonight (BST), online and free to access (donations very appreciated at the moment!)

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1559376229...

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 17h

Day 12 of #AScareADay. We read 'The Little Room' by Madeline Yale Wynne and this is the first story to really creep me out this year. It's really understated but it's just... awful in some way.

Read it yourselves and join my discomfort!

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 17h

10) 'The Little Room' by Madeline Yale Wynne

There is something that really gets under my skin about this story of a room that may or may not exist and the dead-eyed sisters who live there and deny any knowledge of it ever being other than the way it has always been...

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 17h

*imagine omg.

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 18h

13) 'Hours of Solitude' by Charlotte Dacre

A real mixed poetry bag in this one. My favourites, predictably, are the more out there Gothic supernatural ones. I may or may not have noted some options down for next year's #AScareADay...

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 18h

Do people just scan for the word so they can shout at strangers?

How very twitter of them.

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 18h

Loving that when I mentioned being upset by interactions on twitter years ago and the way impacted me, randos blast in and shout at me about politics.

Yes, I got the 'it's bad' memo.

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Anna Fancett @annafancett.bsky.social · 19h

I'm really looking forward to this one!

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 21h

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