I can never resist a good Dracula talk and “Dracula as Survival Cannibal: Shipwrecks, Starvation, and Drinking Blood at Sea” sounds fascinating!

Abraham Van Helsing may be the most famous of the early occult detectives, but there were many others who appeared in Victorian and Edwardian literature. Today I look back at some of the early supernatural sleuths who helped to define a genre that is still going strong today…

New blog post! Check out my review of the lyrically haunting THE DJINN WAITS A HUNDRED YEARS by Shubnum Khan | Order The Djinn Waits

New blog post! Check out my review of DARK ARCHIVES by Megan Rosenbloom 📚;

New blog post! Check out my review of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by Amal El-Mohtar: #BookReview #TheRiverHasRoots

New blog post! Check out my review of BENEATH THE POET’S HOUSE by @real_christaqua: #BookReview

This week has been so hectic, I realized I never shared my blog post from Monday! Check out my review of MURDER BY MEMORY, a new cozy sci-fi from romance author Olivia Waite:

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Have you been missing the RtG talks? Worry not, you can catch up! Have a look at a few of the talks below and enjoy your Sunday catching up with some of our recent talks on European Gothic! ⬇️

THE BIG REVEAL! You can now buy tickets for our 2025 online conference 'A Warning to the Curious: Celebrating 100 years of M R James collection' Talks! Workshops! Events! Author roundtable with NGHI VO, SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA and SUZAN PALUMBO! buytickets.at/romancingthego…

Happy #WorldGothDay from your friendly neighborhood Goth & Gothic Novelist! Peruse Gothic, Neo-Victorian & Steampunk wares at Torch & Arrow! Pre-order AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION! (Links below) Your support is dearly appreciated!

I'm donating 1 Annotated ARC of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, our anticipated HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN follow-up, full of doodles & 1-of-a-kind handwritten notes in margins! Proceeds help diverse literary agents! 32auctions.com/organizations/…

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Have you bought your tickets for the M R James online conference yet? We've got so much amazing stuff going on, including a performance from ROBERT LLOYD PARRY of 'A Warning to the Curious' Check out the website and get your tickets …gtothecuriousconference.wordpress.com

In October I run the 'Scare a Day' challenge. A new scary story or poem a day for the month. You can find the list and follow along here. Come join us! romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/the…

IT IS TIME! RUN FROM THE HAUNTED MANOR TO YOUR NEAREST BOOKSTORE! AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION IS HERE! Available via Kensington Books wherever books are sold, in hardcover, digital & audiobook with Andrea and I reading our chapters!

It's release week for AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION and Julia at The Gothic Library has this wonderful review, sharing aspects of this very personal book and its unique structure: thegothiclibrary.com/review-of-amer…