🪄How to Rule a Magical World: Europe, 1400-1700🪄 How could you rule a magical world – a world pervaded by supernatural powers? A keynote by Prof. Julian Goodare (The University of Edinburgh) organised by Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies at TCD on.soundcloud.com/s7qdQ4M6ZrcKR2… #Magic

HAPPPY HALLOWEEN!!! May all your dreams be nightmares!

REGISTER NOW for THE LITERARY AGENTS #5 - The Land of Mist at 100. With special guests Christine Ferguson 🇵🇸, Michael Homer, Steven Rothman and Bob Stek. Friday 17th January 2025, 10:30-11:30am EST via Zoom. Register here: buff.ly/3UxQ3Ma #ArthurConanDoyle ACDSociety

Dear America . . . .

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A Convict Can’t Vote but a Convict Can Be President

Dave Rudden is ‘afraid all the time’ He introduces Jack Fennell editor of Your Own Dark Shadow ⁦Tramp Press⁩ ⁦Dublin Book Festival⁩

Finally more or less recovered from the launch of Your Own Dark Shadow and the related travel shenanigans. Thanks a million to everyone who came along, and in particular to Tramp Press and Dave Rudden, who made it a night I will cherish for a long time to come!

Very excited for this afternoons’s collaborative online talk between ISSE and H Rider Haggard Society! Tim Falkiner joins us all the way from Australia to talk about Rider Haggard’s She! This talk is for members of ISSE and/or the RHS and free to attend… another membership perk!

‼️Today is the deadline to register to vote in the General Election💜 checktheregister.ie/en-IE/

Universal 1932

I have followed many by migrating to Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/3volum… I will continue to post updates to ATCL here.

We are more active on the nice place! Come say hi! 👋🦋

Today at 7pm GMT Dr Nicky Nielsen talks to us about the Roman reception of ancient Egypt. Missed out on tickets? No problem! Email is info.egyptomania[at]gmail.com and we can organise you a ticket! #AncientEgypt #RomanHistory #EgyptReception

Is there a doctor of philosophy in the house???

Online talk announcement! Fragments of Identity: Reconstructing the Lives of Two Victorian Women Through their #Ancient #Egyptian Collection by Bryony Renshaw 📖 22 April 2025, 7pm (GMT) via Zoom Members go free, tickets are £5 Details here: issegyptomania.com/events

The Egyptian Gothic consists of novels & stories about ancient Egyptian mummies returning to life to seek retribution or romance as well as cursed object tales. Now mostly forgotten, from the 1880s to the 1920s it was more popular than the vampire genre. link.springer.com/book/978303196…

Congratulations to OGOM PhD student Jane Gill who passed her PhD assessment panel today to progress into the final stages. Jane's thesis is on the Monstrous Feminine in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture with a special emphasis on representations of Lamia and Melusine.