#AScareADay Day 14 – Charon by Lord Dunsany

This is a very short story that manages to convey so much in a limited setting. Like everyone else I have seen posting today I loved those last lines.

Yes. The most frustrating aspect of COVID is that we see zero attempt to make systemic changes to resolve the problem. People are just trying to pretend it doesn't exist or hefting it on individuals. We could be normalizing HEPA filtration systems in hospitals, schools, stores...everywhere, really.

UK: COVID-19 could cost UK £7 billion a year without autumn vaccinations.

"A new OHE model shows that stopping annual autumn COVID-19 vaccinations could cost the UK economy £7 billion each year, highlighting the importance of continued immunisation"

Source: archive.md/nyvSp

#AScareADay Day 13 – The Spider and the Ghost of a Fly by Vachel Lindsay

A short little poem today. Love is a dangerous game when you are a fly falling for a spider, but sometimes you just can't help yourself.

Just a reminder that I'm currently recruiting for Romancing the Gothic talks for next year!

Here is an updated cfp which shows which months are already completely full.

romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...

The cottage home of the Ghost Brothers.
#cottagehaunt

Goodnight.
🖼️ Laurie A Conley #31DaysofHalloween #Gothtober

Yeah, it's somehow worse that the Aunts aren't actually attempting to convince the mum or niece or whoever that they are wrong/imagining things...just flatly stating "it's always been" whatever it happens to be at that time.

Lots of new things to read, but I also enjoyed how many things I had read already through RtG 😊. Quite a few from past scare a day lists if I recall right

#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.

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

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#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!

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

Just finished The Bayou by @ardenpowell.bsky.social - delighted that I bought it on a whim when looking for more gay southern gothic after Summer Sons. Very vibey and morally ambiguous. An excellent Halloween treat, and I will for sure be reading again.

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...

Today I'm doing a talk about Women and the (early) Gothic and it might be time for a list!

So here are ten early women writers of the Gothic to give an idea of the range of things that women were creating in the period!

Feeling unwell?

If you have COVID symptoms, TEST
If you test positive, ISOLATE
If you can’t test, MASK

Protect yourself and others (especially high-risk people) - it still matters!

#AScareADay="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AScareADay – Day 11 – An Itinerant House by Emma Frances Dawson

#AScareADay - Day 11 - A cursed room in a house... a lady scorned by her lover who marries someone else... it's all very dramatic. I enjoyed the galvanism aspect, used here as a form of early defibrillation. Today, I've written a…

This isn’t fearmongering — it’s reality. Hospital-acquired COVID can delay care or cost you your health — even your life.

Infection control measures — masks, ventilation, testing, and staff/patient protections — should be standard care in every healthcare setting.

Source: x.com/PrognosticCh...

#AScareADay Day 11 – An Itinerant House by Emma Frances Dawson.

Her eyes were open! We were alarmed as if doing wrong and
silently watched her. Fifteen minutes later her lips formed one word:
“Idiots!”

I pretty much have the same reaction every time someone in a story raises the dead 😂

Sexy titles are overrated. I've attended multiple online talks where Sam has shared various bits and pieces of what's in this book, and they know what they're talking about and are talking about it in an incredibly interesting and accessible way.

Your academic discourse doesn't need tits and ass.

Aloush really needs help. Donations have dried up and he is struggling. Little Ameera has been in the hospital in a coma, she is now awake and recovering after being shot. Please help this family by giving if you can and sharing if not, and following him on insta. chuffed.org/project/1406...

There’s a comment piece in The Times about sickness benefits mysteriously going up and no mention of Covid, long Covid, the effects of lockdown etc. Boosters help people stay healthy, but now they are only available to the very old or people who can afford them.

Thirteenth : "like Encanto but with more gore" (in East Sussex)

Queer Lovecraftian horror x family drama with tentacles

💣🦑Angry girl goes eldritch: When you're meant to catch a train to London but end up locked in a Gothic manor

(Can be read as standalone)
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www.canelo.co/books/thirte...

I feel like the title of my book - Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic - isn't very sexy or puts people off thinking 'well, I'm not interested in theology so... meh'.

But my books offers well researched challenges on key Gothic issues 1/