Dark Food

“It doesn’t matter where you go, this dark entity has latched itself to your family and is feeding off you.” ~ Lorraine Warren, The Conjuring (2013)

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

The Pale Man’s banquet. Vidal’s table. Hunger, power, resistance & rebellion.
In our latest @fear_feasts , we explore the food symbolism of Pan’s Labyrinth. Still discovering new things in this film nearly 20 years later. Grateful to @RealGDT for that.

🎧 https://t.co/EYpEK4gR1J

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

New episode of A Curious Appetite: a conversation with Stephen Volk (Ghostwatch, Gothic).
We talk séances, belief and doubt in ghost stories, & food in horror & more!

Part of this conversation also appears in @hauntedmagazine #49.

Listen here:
https://t.co/lCtIw1gMGS

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

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[Paul Stevenson ❤️👻💙 @hauntedmagazine]

Haunted 48: Season of Shadows is out Dec 1st. You can order via https://t.co/22kSu8kP5s or find it in selected UK shops the day after.

@Dr_Alessandra_P's Italian road trip took her to Nocera Inferiore, near Pompeii—expect a haunted castle, plague stories & wandering spirits.

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

New publication ✨
My article “Ropa Vieja: A Colonial Stew of Global Threads” is out now in The Recipes Project’s Autumn 2025 issue, Globalizing Early Modern Recipes!

Read: https://t.co/PgAIfo4Iu3

#RopaVieja #FoodHistory #TheRecipesProject #CulinaryHistory #GlobalRecipes

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

It’s alive… again!

Delighted, on Halloween of all days, to make a very special announcement 📣

@agothiccookbook returns from the lab in 2026 with @TheHistoryPress 🦇reanimated, re-edited, with new additions & a new cover!
Ready to feed your darkest cravings.

#AGothicCookbook

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

A walk on Blorenge mountain.
A chatty child.
An old man chopping wood outside a smoking cottage that shouldn’t exist.
(I 💩 my pants)
When she looked again… it didn’t.
🎧 #Uncanny Case 30: The Old Man of Blorenge @danny_robins

🔗 https://t.co/qZPZLgrFox

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

Case 22: The Black Triangle

Friday the 13th, 2004. A silent, shining craft glides low over London,vast,black, & impossibly slow. Then… gone.

Was it a UFO, a glitch in time?

Also: what was Louise smoking?

🎧 #Uncanny Halloween Countdown @danny_robins
https://t.co/4NiWuEikTj

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

I’ve felt my cat jump on the bed long after she’d gone…but this takes pet ghosts to another level.

🐾 Case 21: Janey Died Here
A faithful boxer dog who just couldn’t leave her post.

🎧 #Uncanny Halloween Countdown @danny_robins

https://t.co/j2Uen9Xv18

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

The phone was disconnected.

But it rang anyway.

A woman with a German accent, asks, “Is Walter there?”

We’ve heard this kind of haunting before-think Dad’s Phone (Series 4, Case 2).

When voices travel down dead lines, the past still wants to speak.

#Uncanny @danny_robins

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

This morning’s spooky dose of Uncanny with @danny_robins - 👧🏼 ‘inherited’ memories or paranormal dreams? It sent shivers down my spine!! https://t.co/USnN3VyaDM

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

My work on dark food has been published in The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Memory Studies.

Very pleased to finally hold a physical copy @Palgrave

It’s a privilege to have my work on dark food included in this volume alongside such excellent scholarship.

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

@hauntedmagazine #47 is out! I explore how fear is crafted on stage, from high-tech effects to candlelit performances, spotlighting @Adam_Zed’s 10 years of haunting theatre, writing, and online ghost story magic.

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

Will we ever pass down family recipes that start with microalgae? Maybe one day!

My contribution to The UNESCO Courier’s latest feature, “Future on Our Plates,” which explores the evolving relationship between food, culture, and sustainability.

https://t.co/4DUMv0fmpy

[Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery]

Did you miss @Dr_Alessandra_P and my 'Monsters & their Meals' last year? Well here it is on my YouTube channel for your viewing pleasure. We discuss food in Gothic literature and some real foods that are stranger than fiction!

https://t.co/o20TQCATQ9

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

Back from an amazing time in York for the Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions! A beautiful day filled with fascinating talks, plus a fun ghost walk the night before and a visit to the Castle Museum and historic prison.

#York #FoodHistory #LeedsSymposium #GhostWalk

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

@hauntedmagazine @Uncannylassie @BurialsBeyond @thehauntedguy @jourdemayne @alehousehaunts @PGMorg @JefferyParsnip @WiltshireWeird @ciaranokeeffe @CarrionScreamin Perfect for the batch heading to the BOOlangerie! Sorry…

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

@Graarm @ciaranokeeffe @BBCTwo @_EvelynHollow @Bafflegabble @danny_robins @outtheregroup1 @Higgypop @hauntedmagazine

[Dr Alessandra Pino @Dr_Alessandra_P]

Deeply disturbing investigation, deeply disturbed hamsters #Uncanny

[Amna @LaFemme434]

#uncanny gif of the night