For all my horror academics 💀: A chilling new Bloomsbury Academic book series is in the works. Gothic, horror, the macabre, and academia - stay tuned for what’s brewing in the shadows. 📚👻 #HorrorStudies #GothicAcademia #horror #CFP

For my fellow scholars of the Gothic, horror, and urban space… A new CFP is open for an edited collection: Haunted Cities: Spaces, Spectres, and Urban Hauntologies. 📎 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/05/26… #GothicStudies #UrbanHauntology #HorrorStudies #CFP #HauntedCities

We are excited to announce that we will shortly be accepting paper proposals for Haunted Futures 2025 Film&Screen MediaUCC ! Get those abstracts ready! We also have a Bluesky account, come follow us there @hauntedfutures!

I am of the England of the ruin, of the ghost-magnet. England where clank of St. Martin's Land bell is heard from under hollow hill, where Half-There Folk plague lanes on quarter days. I am of the spirited pub, Soot Sprite scratched chimney. This is my only patriotism. – #CLNolan

Our 2025 Call for Papers is here! We will be accepting abstracts until August 29th. We’re looking forward to welcoming you to Film&Screen MediaUCC from the 12th - 14th of November 2025!

Two days until I chat about my research on the Televisual Gothic at Darkness in the Fields: Midsummer! You can still get tickets here if you’re interested: eventbrite.com/e/darkness-in-…

Thank you Joan! We’re still talking about your 2024 keynote!!

Our colleagues at Aigne are currently welcoming creative submissions! Send your poetry, flash fiction, short stories and photography by to them by September 13th!

Haunted Futures welcomes postgraduate and early career researchers! Last year Film&Screen MediaUCC PhD researcher Mall Goth Salad Supreme👻💀👻 presented a paper entitled "Network Performance Test: Queering The Legend Trip in Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2022)"

We can’t wait to read it!!

Have you seen our call for papers yet? If not, check it out below! You have until August 29th to send your abstract!

The Dance of the Wilis from Giselle... If you are an academic discussing hauntings or the spectral in dance, then we would love to welcome you to Film&Screen MediaUCC for Haunted Futures 2025, take a look at our pinned post for more details! youtube.com/watch?v=NGwhYu…

At Haunted Futures 2024 Eli presented a paper entitled The Future of Folklore and Horror: Analogue Horror, which considered "the very folkloric nature of analogue horror", if this sounds like your cup of tea, then join us for Haunted Futures 2025!

Thank you to everyone who has sent us an abstract so far, we’re already so blown away by the diversity of ideas and approaches! If you’d like to send us an abstract take a look at our CFP below!

At HF 2024 Max Bledstein "Listening with Ghosts: The Temporality of Spectral Sounds in Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Séance" examining Séance's auditory representation of ghosts and its challenge to narrative linearity. This year's HF promises to offer equally outstanding scholarship!

Delegates from last year’s conference might remember our charming little ghost, who hid all over UCC Ireland campus for delegates to find. He’s looking forward to haunting delegates again this November!

Hi Cristina C. Diamant, we were delighted to showcase your work last year! There will be an official call for papers for non-academic submissions released in the next week or so, but our guidelines for creative writers will be identical to the ones set out last year!

Had a wonderful time at #vpfaextremes . Great venue (BMI), lots of interesting talks and everyone was so friendly! Plus lovely cake. 10/10. Thanks for having me.

There’s less than a month remaining to get your abstracts to us for Haunted Futures 2025!