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