Graham Rix

MA Victorian Gothic student @ Portsmouth | Writer | Bookworm | Antiquarian | All-round culture bore

[Graham Rix @grahamrix]

Delighted to attend another fantastic Halloween workshop from @CNCSI, this year on c19 Gothic Afterlives. Talks included fresh insight on Melmoth the Wanderer, Gothic Radio, Wuthering Heights, Resident Evil & Taboo. Thanks to the organisers and all the excellent speakers!

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@BL_Publishing @mauriplz The artwork on this cover is hauntingly good!

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A huge thanks to the team at @ShoresHaunted for running their beautiful and strange #UnquietShores conference at Edinburgh Napier this week. A wonderful three days of papers exploring coastal soundscapes, selkies, flooded villages, and a tidal wave of weird and uncanny content!

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@JoanPassey Great to see all the lesser known titles and authors!

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As the last talk for the #CNCSI's all-day Contagion & Contamination #19thC Workshop, @amhistcurator shares museum objects, looks at the history of public health, and argues the importance of fully understanding a culture by knowing it medically and becoming "trauma informed"

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Microbial warfare and the rise of germ theory: Prof. Priscilla Ward's paper 'A Germ's Eye-View' explores the thought-provoking origins of public health and the theory behind species interdependence. All part of the #CNCSI's all-day #19thC Contagion & Contamination online workshop

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Next up, Mark Frost's exploration of contaminated waterways and the microbial threat: the @CN_CSI's #19thC Contagion & Contamination Workshop continues with the Thames transformed into a 'monster soup'. Only strong stomachs need apply!

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'Constructing Cholera's Landscape': @asciampacone on miasma theory, troubling notions, and British reactions to racialised 'Indian cholera'. The @CN_CSI's #19thC Contagion & Contamination Workshop continues apace with engaging and erudite analysis of cholera maps and charts

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Pseudoscientific health investigations in Timothy Mills' 'Implausible Deniability', a paper exploring imperialist responses to contagion in #19thC India & South Africa. A disturbing story of racial discrimination and segregation for the @CN_CSI's all-day Contagion Workshop

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A compelling opener for the @CN_CSI's #19thC Contamination & Contagion Workshop: @melissaldickson on the Russian flu epidemic. Was the Influenza Fiend a deus ex machina or were the "boundaries between the everyday and the fantastic becoming more permeable"? Fascinating stuff!

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@Emily__Vincent @portsmouthuni @MEDEP_CHANSE @EUCHANSE Excellent talk - thank you for sharing your research!

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@BL_Publishing I think 2025 is shaping up to be a great year if this quality continues.

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Just finished this excellent critical study of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, written by @aoifemdempsey and published by @UniWalesPress. A fascinating read, erudite, superbly researched, loaded with intriguing detail and engaging analysis. Recommended.

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@BL_Publishing @Emily__Vincent @BL_Shop I'm not surprised there's been a high demand with that contents list. Excellent stuff!

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Currently enjoying William Delisle Hay's DOOM OF THE GREAT CITY (1880), a London apocalypse story and early progenitor of better-known Wyndham and Matheson novels. It's only 50-odd pages, an overwrought combination of Victorian moralising and eerie death 'tableaux'.

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Worth the wait: an illuminating paper from the erudite Dr Joan Passey @JoanPassey with 'Vampires on the Beach', exploring queer coastal eco-gothic literature via some less well-known 19th century writers. Spooky bloodsucking goodness to round off #C19Natureandhorror from @CN_CSI!

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A whistle-stop tour from Dr Janette Leaf @janetteleaf1 on 'Gothic Insects Creeping Out the 19th Century' for #C19Natureandhorror: information rich with beautiful slides and an engrossing topic. Be afraid...be very afraid! @CN_CSI 🦟🪰🐜🪲

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A trip across the pond as Professor Matthew Wynn Sivils takes on the deeply sinister Plantation Tales of Charles Chesnutt which bring rot and decay to the eco-gothic. #C19Natureandhorror and @CN_CSI keep on delivering 👍