Robert Edgar

Professor of Writing and Popular Culture: York Centre for Writing: Humanities: York St John University (Scriptwriting, Music Memoir, Hauntology, Folk Horror)

[Robert Edgar @RobCEdgar]

Very excited to announce our new @BloomsburyAcad series. Co-edited by myself, @DawnKeetley and @elementaladam.

Logo and illustrations by the fantastic @Slippery_Jack

Send us your #spectral and #hauntology proposals.

[Adam James Smith @elementaladam]

Announcement 2

Rob Edgar (@RobCEdgar), Dawn Keetley (@DawnKeetley) & I are now editors of a new book series at @BloomsburyAcad

Rob & I are contracted to write the first book (about the 18th century!).

And yes, those illustrations are by RICHARD WELLS (of Damnable Tales)!!

[Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks]

💫Author Robert C Edgar launched his new children’s book The Wandspringer in York last week with @YorkLitFest

A thrilling middle-grade #TimeTravel / #Espionage adventure. When Ellie uncovers a link between her missing father and a legendary spy, history itself is at stake…

Just 4 #SIGNED copies left! 👇

https://t.co/EdTv8MOlCA

#ChildrensBooks #MGReads #BookLaunch #TheWandspringer #YorkLitFest #BookTwitter

[24-7 Press Release @247pressnews]

Time Travel Adventure "The Wandspringer" Explores the History of the Berlin Wall
#bookrelease #readersinterest #newbook #berlinwall #pressrelease #pressreleasedistribution #pr #pressreleaseservice @247pressnews
https://t.co/WdtEHdhTMt

[HauntedFutures @HauntedFutures]

There are only 3 days left to send us your abstract for Haunted Futures 2025!

[HauntedFutures @HauntedFutures]

Our Creative Call is here!! If you have any queries just drop us a line 👻

[Benjamin Halligan @BenHalligan]

Two of my recent co-edited collections now out in glossy, look-good-on-your-bookshelf, (cheap) paperback @BloomsburyAcad.
Table of Contents info/order:
💋 Diva --
https://t.co/EnNZK84VEq
https://t.co/bcVJMOUsBn
🙈 Adult Themes --
https://t.co/eNqfmBjpjJ
https://t.co/CxIHpVbZNO

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PRE-ORDER ALERT
Coming 6 Nov 2025
TURBINE 34 by Katherine Clements

An environmental scientist is sent to take soil samples at a wind farm built atop an ancient peat bog but soon she begins to hallucinate. What is haunting the moors?

paperback & ebook 🌍
https://t.co/PD5km9Zp5n

[Benjamin Halligan @BenHalligan]

Chuffed to announce, forthcoming in 2026, in the esteemed Refocus "American Directors" series @EdinburghUP....
"The Films of Michael Cimino", co-ed myself & Christopher Weedman @mtsu.
First critical reassessment of this protean, self-mythologising & genius auteur.

[Robert Edgar @RobCEdgar]

Out now in p[aperback - https://t.co/Q7tAPHnjXA

[Jeremy Dyson @dysonjeremy]

Me and @andynyman so very excited to be announcing our new stage thriller The Psychic which will be opening at `@yorktheatreroyal next year. You can book now!

[Scarred for Life @ScarredForLife2]

Scarred for Life Podcast series two starts on Monday 23rd December! We kick things off in fine style with the brilliant @alicelowe (Garth Marenghi, Sightseers, Prevenge, Timestalker)! There'll be a present on Christmas Day, too...

Sign up and subscribe: https://t.co/fFcFp5F28W

[Alasdair Beckett-King @MisterABK]

WING IT starts tonight on @BBCRadio4! It's a brand new improv show where I (ABK) set challenges for some of the UK's top improvisors. If you want to hear me laugh and ring a little bell, this is your chance.

Tonight at 11pm and on BBC Sounds after. Feat. @ladycariad @ShootImpro

[Adam James Smith @elementaladam]

"Folk horror is ambient"

You'd be hard pressed to find a more thoughtful & nuanced discussion of what folk horror is any where on the internet than in this delightfully entertaining & informative conversation:

https://t.co/Oj1cTh5CPa #FolkHorror

[Scarred for Life @ScarredForLife2]

If you're thinking of buying our books as Christmas pressies for yourself or loved ones, hang on until Black Friday weekend (starting 29th November). The discount is going to be HUGE.

[Elizabeth Garner @Lostandfoundst2]

This is happening in Oxford tomorrow @blackwelloxford Just a few tix left, grab them while you can! 👇👇👇

https://t.co/tQdUjXH6f2

[Alice Lowe @alicelowe]

Richard Wells is the stamp of quality as far as I'm concerned, if you can get him involved! thanks Richard for this wonderful piece of art

[Alex Davis @AlexDavis1981]

Three weeks to go until folk horror comes to the coldest season with DARKNESS IN THE FIELDS: MIDWINTER, featuring @inkhat @kaychronister @RobCEdgar @RuthHeholt @oisaachenry @novicenovelist and @stevetoase! https://t.co/TAzn8bhLNw #folkhorror #writing #writers #horror

[Richard🔥Wells @Slippery_Jack]

Cut some capers! My collection of Summerisle Procession lino prints is now back in stock, sing cuckoo..!

[Daniel Pietersen @pietersender]

I’m running an author event with the excellent @edward_parnell for @argonaut_books on Tuesday next week. We’ll be discussing all things ghostly and ghoulish, with reference to Ed’s books - Ghostland (@HarperCollinsUK) and Eerie East Anglia (@BL_Publishing)

Tix 👇

[Jeremy Dyson @dysonjeremy]

Citizens of Leeds and environs - very much looking forward to being at @OldWoollen on 26th November.

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UK authors/publishing people, who wants a proof 😈