@romgothsam.bsky.social
Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
@jenniekermode.bsky.socialReposted by @romgothsam.bsky.socialI've recently been writing about Palestinian students with university places in Scotland which they can't access due to a lack of funding options. Now I hear that there are other such students who have funding in Ireland, but not visas. Will you lend them your voice? secure.avaaz.org/en/campaigns...
@romgothsam.bsky.socialFancy reading an earlier 20th century ghost tale that has somw intriguing overlaps with Rebecca? Here you go! I made it a bit easier to find :)
@romgothsam.bsky.socialI transcribed it for you! You can read it here
@romgothsam.bsky.socialToday's #AScareADay read was Mrs Wilson Woodrow's 'Secret Chambers'.
I have to say... the main guy is a prick who is more willing to believe that his dead wife has possessed his new wife than consider, for even a second, that he might be at fault.
It's hard to find online...but worry not!
@romgothsam.bsky.socialI am shuddering with horror. I coyld not have come up with soemthing so terror inducing
@romgothsam.bsky.socialThat's just good taste :)
@romgothsam.bsky.socialI think as I've got older, I've realised that I am weird but don't really know when it's happening. It's very frustrating to not know what the tells are. I don't mind being weird or people thinking that I'm weird. I just wish I knew why sometimes.
@romgothsam.bsky.socialI've also missed the fact that people were insulting me because what they said just seemed neutral. I've had to have it pointed out by someone else. Like a parent's friend saying I was born old (because I was helping in the kitchen at a party). And I was like 'sure? My mum was enraged.
@romgothsam.bsky.socialThe real answer is that I historically often haven't clocked that I'm being weird or that I am weird. I have many times where I've thought I was doing a really good job of being 'normal' and then having people say things like 'you always such a unique approach' or 'you were never like anyone else'
@romgothsam.bsky.socialWhat an interesting question! I'm not sure but maybe when I was about 7, coming back to school after maybe a year-ish of cancer treatments, and a not-nice boy was nice to me. I told him he shouldn't pretend just because I was sick. And so he didn't. I remember people thinking I did something wrong.
@beccameriel.bsky.socialReposted by @romgothsam.bsky.socialMy copy is equally wrong in a different way
@asls.org.ukReposted by @romgothsam.bsky.socialFor your consideration – the design sensibilities of the publishers “Sheba Blake”? Via @causticcovercritic.bsky.social …
(please note: their James Hogg one, here, is relatively sane in comparison to some)
causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2020/10/clas...
@romgothsam.bsky.socialI love this
@harrietvanewimsey.bsky.socialReposted by @romgothsam.bsky.socialDo not judge a book by it's cover (I actually own this Dread Pirate Roberts and the Temple of Doom edition )
@romgothsam.bsky.socialTHIS! I was thinking this the whole time we were reading. Does the father have no responsibility for his children being underfed and ill-clothed?
@romgothsam.bsky.socialTwo of my faves! This looks amazing!
@romgothsam.bsky.socialToday's #AScareADay was 'From the Loom of the Dead' by Ella Peatie.
I really enjoy the fact that the stepmother learns nothing, she is just frightened into being a semi-decent human being by a ghost. I like that it doesn't go twee but stays dark.
@cmrosens.comReposted by @romgothsam.bsky.social#AScareADay Reading Challenge 2026 – Day 12: “From the Loom of the Dead” by Elia W. Peattie (1898)
Here's Day 12: "From the Loom of the Dead" by Elia W. Peattie (1898),…
@robtwilliams.bsky.socialReposted by @romgothsam.bsky.socialPeattie #AScareADay
A mother's love is borderless, for "From the Loom of the Dead" she weaves cloth for her children. The cloth is ethereal, ephemeral. Yet it persists in the stepmother's mind to cause her finally to nurture her stepchildren. Nightmares(?) impel care when good conscience fails.
@juliajoyce.bsky.socialReposted by @romgothsam.bsky.socialDay 11 of #AScareADay is "The Striding Place" by Gertrude Atherton.
Fast-moving rivers are always dangerous in the physical sense, but this particular river segment seems to have something much spookier going on. Or maybe it's Gifford that brought the spookiness with him.
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