(Dr) Michael Wheatley

Editor of 'Queer Horror: A Companion', 'The Lure of Atlantis' and 'The Horned God'. Author of 'The Writers' Block'. Associate Lecturer.

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

Call for Chapters - Queer Horror: A Companion 💀🏳️‍🌈

I'm putting together a proposal for a volume in Peter Lang's Genre Fiction and Film Companions series on the subject of contemporary queer horror. If interested, the link to the CFC is posted below. Retweets greatly appreciated!

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

With the manuscript for Queer Horror: A Companion now submitted, I've posted a CFC for a second volume on the subject of Disability and Horror. Details at the link below! Any shares for visibility would be greatly appreciated. Deadline July 31st.

https://t.co/qGYMUAxpsO

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

With the manuscript for Queer Horror: A Companion now submitted, I've posted a CFC for a second volume on the subject of Disability and Horror. Details at the link below! Any shares for visibility would be greatly appreciated. Deadline July 31st.

https://t.co/qGYMUAxpsO

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

One final (maybe) boost as we're entering into the last week of abstracts. Please do send them in if you find the time, it's been wonderful seeing all your research.

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

Call for Chapters - Queer Horror: A Companion 💀🏳️‍🌈

I'm putting together a proposal for a volume in Peter Lang's Genre Fiction and Film Companions series on the subject of contemporary queer horror. If interested, the link to the CFC is posted below. Retweets greatly appreciated!

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

Well this sure looks tremendous

[British Library Publishing @BL_Publishing]

On November 2nd we are hosting 'Tales of the Weird - An Autumnal Festival'. A whole day of weird! Authors appearing so far include Andrew Michael Hurley @FancyEliza @ReeceShearsmith @djdaisyjohnson (more to be announced)
Tickets on sale tomorrow 10am!
https://t.co/z46XmS0B5D

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

Into the final month for abstracts for Queer Horror: A Companion. There have been some wonderful submissions already, so please do keep them coming.

All the details are below or here: https://t.co/uzE7WWV4BG

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

Call for Chapters - Queer Horror: A Companion 💀🏳️‍🌈

I'm putting together a proposal for a volume in Peter Lang's Genre Fiction and Film Companions series on the subject of contemporary queer horror. If interested, the link to the CFC is posted below. Retweets greatly appreciated!

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

Bumpin' this.

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

Call for Chapters - Queer Horror: A Companion 💀🏳️‍🌈

I'm putting together a proposal for a volume in Peter Lang's Genre Fiction and Film Companions series on the subject of contemporary queer horror. If interested, the link to the CFC is posted below. Retweets greatly appreciated!

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

Do it for Pan, God of the Wild, Baskets, High Places, Succulent Plushies and Books (among His many titles) 🐈‍⬛🐐

[British Library Publishing @BL_Publishing]

Game 5 of round 2 is go! Which #TalesoftheWeird below will make the semi-final of #TheUncannyCup?

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

For those not on https://t.co/Ck17tJpH4K that can’t see the link: https://t.co/9EKsoUnnB9

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

Call for Chapters - Queer Horror: A Companion 💀🏳️‍🌈

I'm putting together a proposal for a volume in Peter Lang's Genre Fiction and Film Companions series on the subject of contemporary queer horror. If interested, the link to the CFC is posted below. Retweets greatly appreciated!

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

https://t.co/I2xZcdd2xc

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

@Isbrand3 Not George Eliot! George Egerton. Big whoops.

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

There’s my cheeky little book about my not-so-little but still-so-cheeky Pan obsession (more Pans out of shot) 🐐

[British Library Publishing @BL_Publishing]

Only 5 games of round 1 left! Vote below. @TanyaKirk @md_wheatley @AnnVanderMeer

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

@Isbrand3 Yep! The Music on the Hill is in there. There’s also some Forster, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, even Kenneth Grahame managed to make it in

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

If you’re spoiled for choice on the 3-for-2, why not go for a combo of sunken, ecclesiastical, fantasy spooks 🦑

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

If you’re spoiled for choice on the 3-for-2, why not go for a combo of sunken, ecclesiastical, fantasy spooks 🦑

[British Library Publishing @BL_Publishing]

It's time for game 7 of #TheUncannyCup! Once again 3 excellent titles - but which is your favourite? Don't forget all the #TalesoftheWeird titles are on 3 for 2 at the @BL_Shop (including online orders). Let's go!

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

@BobEaglestone Wahey, hope you enjoy it! You’d be astonished quite how many racist Atlantis stories I had to wade through before finding the good ones. (Cornwall looks beautiful!)

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

@excaliburedpan Remember one my MA essays I write in one awful night, spent the next month apologising, and it got my second-highest grade. My friend came up to me and said “next time, don’t lobby the lecturers to give you a bad grade.”

[tori bovalino (not here) @toribov]

🌊NEWS🌊

I am delighted to share that my adult fantasy debut, THE SECOND DEATH OF LOCKE, will be published by @orbitbooks in autumn 2025!

I cannot wait to share this book with you next year, and I hope y'all love Grey and Kier and their messy dynamic as much as I do 🖤

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

@GiantRatSumatra @WoodstockBooks The MA dissertation that never happened came good in the end

[(Dr) Michael Wheatley @md_wheatley]

Forgot to take the time to celebrate this - the viva do be looming - but here’s a 2am announcement that it happened and it’s awesome ⚓️🌊🐙

[British Library Publishing @BL_Publishing]

The sunken continent of Atlantis has dwelt in the collective imagination of writers and artists for centuries; a bejewelled paradox bubbling with themes of irrecoverable loss and quixotic faith in its rediscovery.

This new anthology collects stories from the vast, yet seldom...