New article klaxon! My article on nightmares and astrology in Chaucer's Miller's Tale has just been published in the new issue of JEGP: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article…

Very superstitious! 🔮 Look no further than this book of magical charms from the 17th century to give you everything you need on Friday 13th 🐈‍⬛🪄 Will you be protecting yourself from evil or causing mayhem and misfortune this #Halloween?🎃 (Bodleian Libraries MS. e Mus. 243)

Looking forward to giving my seasonally-appropriate lecture on the Friar's Tale tomorrow. Lots of lovely insights into medieval demonology.

Ken continues to find the weirdest things while cataloguing! Today it's an actual fig leaf, tucked into an 18th century book about Adam and Eve...

Coming on 19 March - novelist Meredith Miller brings Fall River (Gwasg Honno Press) to BookTalk. Book your free place here: ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cardi…

Todays blog, we interview Meredith Miller about her new novel Fall River. cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.com/2024/03/14/fal…

We have an amazing line up for the final Grave Matters on 10 June at 6pm with @Trabbs_Bhoy Roger Luckhurst Stephen Gordon Sign up for free here: ticketpass.org/event/EMTKSG/g… and please share far and wide, it's going to be a corker!

Two weeks to go until our BookTalk on Simone de Beauvoir's Prix Goncourt winning novel The Mandarins. Fittingly enough, we meet dans le cafe Little Man Coffee

Great supernatural sessions today at the IMC. I was very gratified to talk about my current research on revenants in the Lanercost Chronicle.

This has been a thoroughly miserable day. Denied boarding home-bound flight for reasons unknown, trapped in Schiphol, and no news at all from airline about the rebooking. Absolute Purgatory.

Despite the travel mishaps coming home, I really enjoyed participating in the IAS conference and listening to some wonderful papers. Until next time!

Ghost Conference Alert!! Dr Andrew Sneddon @tait_clodagh and myself are delighted to be organising a conference on historical representations of ghosts at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick in June 2025. CFP attached! Please share! #earlymodern #twitterstorians #emotions #emostorians

Looking forward to giving my talk on the Lanercost Chronicle undead story at the IMS research seminar next week! ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/event…

Don't forget to get your abstracts in for our ghost conference! We will have two keynotes: Prof. Sasha Handley (Manchester) and Dr. Shane McCorristine (Newcastle). It's going to be spooktacular! #earlymodern #twitterstorians #emostorians

Nice to see this out in the wild

Publications are like buses it seems! My chapter on medieval revenants for the The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie is also out now. link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/97…

My new article for Review of English Studies, 'Conjuring the Dead in St Erkenwald', is out now on open/early access. academic.oup.com/res/advance-ar…