Professor of Writing and Popular Culture: York Centre for Writing: Humanities: York St John University (Scriptwriting, Music Memoir, Hauntology, Folk Horror)
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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.
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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)!!
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💫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! 👇
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#ChildrensBooks #MGReads #BookLaunch #TheWandspringer #YorkLitFest #BookTwitter
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Time Travel Adventure "The Wandspringer" Explores the History of the Berlin Wall
#bookrelease #readersinterest #newbook #berlinwall #pressrelease #pressreleasedistribution #pr #pressreleaseservice @247pressnews
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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 --
bloomsbury.com/uk/diva-97815…
amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1501369…
🙈 Adult Themes --
bloomsbury.com/uk/adult-them…
amazon.co.uk/Adult-Themes-Br…
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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 🌍
wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/…
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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.
Out now in p[aperback - bloomsbury.com/uk/thomas-har…
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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!
York Theatre Royal Announces World Premiere of Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s 'The Psychic' in Spring 2026
MORE INFO 👉 theartsshelf.com/2025/01/10/…
#ThePsychic @yorktheatre
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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: pod.link/1706291698
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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
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"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:
open.spotify.com/episode/3Oe… #FolkHorror
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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.
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This is happening in Oxford tomorrow @blackwelloxford Just a few tix left, grab them while you can! 👇👇👇
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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
Another fun time down the @mac_birmingham for @alicelowe's TIMESTALKER, with a cracking post-film Q&A with @SabinaStent. Alice kindly let me share the illustation I made for the film, connected to Nick Frost's gloriously repulsive turn in the 18th century segment..!
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Cut some capers! My collection of Summerisle Procession lino prints is now back in stock, sing cuckoo..!
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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 👇
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Citizens of Leeds and environs - very much looking forward to being at @OldWoollen on 26th November.
🚨 LEEDS! 🚨
Join @TheMovieMike for an evening with the one and only @dysonjeremy on 26th November at the @OldWoollen! We'll be discussing Jeremy's career, from League of Gentlemen to Ghost Stories to his best selling books and his horror influences...tickets available now!
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UK authors/publishing people, who wants a proof 😈
And we're back!
Guess what arrived this week?! Shiny new proofs of THIS HOUSE ISN'T HAUNTED BUT WE ARE by @stejhoward 💚💛
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Following a visit from his father's ghost, Hamlet tells Horatio: "Time is out of joint."
It's this feeling we'll explore when we chat all things hauntology on 30 November. Head to writingtheoccult.carrd.co for full details, or grab your ticket from eventbrite.com/e/writing-the….
