I've thrown everything else to the wind & gone down many rabbit holes figuring out what LONGLEGS means. Here are my first thoughts about the film as folk horror - especially its connection to J.G. Frazer's THE GOLDEN BOUGH #folkhorror #Longlegs horrorhomeroom.com/oz-perkins-lon…

theconversation.com/five-irish-nov… I will keep writing these articles until I get sent Sally Rooney proofs. Be warned. My latest love post to contemp. Irish lit from The Conversation feat. Michael Magee , Nicole Flattery, sara baume, niamh campbell, em reapy 🇮🇪

Last South Armagh tour of the summer

#BOTD the great Ira Levin (1929-2007), who wrote two of the most essential horror texts of the late 20th century, ROSEMARY’S BABY and THE STEPFORD WIVES, whose reverberations are still deeply felt lo these many decades later… #PaperbacksfromHell

Lecturer in Literature in English since 1960 UCL An interest in one or more the following fields would be desirable: Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures, Visual Culture, the Contemporary. Full time permanent jobs.ac.uk/job/DJK368/lec…

The beautiful new print of The Outcasts, painstakingly remastered by the IFI. will be screened at the Garden Cinema, Parker Street, Covent Garden, London on the 17th of September at 8.15pm. I will be there.

It’s no surprise that a Shirley Jackson scholar would say this, but one of my favourite kinds of story is the ‘woman who rebels against stifling domesticity by losing her shit in an outlandish manner’ type narrative.

Screen Ireland, Animation Ireland, Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet & Eirmersive are investing €430,000 in funding to support new innovative, high concept development within the Animation and Immersive Storytelling sector. Apply by 27th Sept. screenireland.ie/funding/develo…

PLEASE SHARE 🙏 UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES With the uncertainty right now in funding for culture we have been working hard to secure support for early stage researchers, curators & visual artists to help develop this vital ecosystem and will be sharing soon our first round👇🏽

Leaked Hobbit audition for ‘The Rings Of Power’

💬 We’re excited to announce the BAAS Postgraduate Symposium 2024 - “This is America”: Reimagined Pasts and Speculative Futures. It will take place on Thursday 14th November at University of Sussex, Brighton, & Online.

Assistant Lecturer Writing & Literature (Permanent Wholetime Contract) ATU Sligo atu.ie/academic-jobs

Shirley Jackson Studies 2.1: Queer(ing) Jackson is now live! It features articles by Joey Junsu Hong (Joey), Liz Popko, and Janice Lynne Deitner. 👻🏚️🌈 shirleyjacksonstudies.org/?p=287

Two musicologists obsessed with sourcing field recordings of Irish folk ballads uncover the dark secrets of an ancient song in Paul Duane’s chaotic and original low-budget folk horror. Roger Luckhurst reviews All You Need is Death, now on Shudder UK bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

TCD Writing fellow Fixed term post universityvacancies.com/trinity-colleg…

In the funny/frightening found footage of Elliot Goldner's THE BORDERLANDS (2013), "the beliefs and assumptions of modernity are shaken to their foundations by something eerie and ancient." On Shudder UK from today projectedfigures.com/2014/03/28/the…

#LibraryHITS Online classes today Trinity College Dublin. Perhaps this is your first time navigating an academic library, or you are new to independent research. We would like to help you make the most of your #TrinityJourney! Links can be found for each session here: tcd.ie/library/suppor…

ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS VOLUME TWO SHOWCASE: PSYCHOMANIA Don Sharp, UK 1973 91 mins | 1.66:1 | Color English Mono Order Yours Today: severinfilms.com/products/all-t…

Deadline: 15 October 2024 !!! Tenure track assistant professor in 19thC US Immigration & Labor history with preference for American-Irish diaspora Boston College APPLY: apply.interfolio.com/150849 Please RT #BCIrishStudies

#TheBabadook director Jennifer Kent discusses the supernatural horror series she's developing: "It’s set in Ireland in the 1700s, and it deals with Irish folklore. I’m working with a fellow writer on that. It’s a six-part one-off series. Irish myth and folklore. You think it’s