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Contemporary Gothic Reading Group

Gothic Studies

These free summer term sessions give us a chance to explore the prominent role of the gothic in modern and contemporary culture, as well as the recuperation of certain authors in recent times. Come along for a relaxed conversation amongst enthusiasts and avid readers.

‌‌‌Location: Online.

Frequency: Three to four times a year during the summer term.

More details: To inquire further, please e-mail the Gothic Centre at gothic@mmu.ac.uk. To stay up to date and for event invites and links, please join our Facebook group and/or browse our Eventbrite page.

 

All book group meetings are open to undergraduates, postgraduates, members of staff and members of the public.

Click through the menus below to see a selection of the books we have covered in previous academic years.

2022/23

  • Priya Sharma, All the Fabulous Beasts (2018)
  • Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh (2020)
  • Jenn Ashworth, Ghosted: A Love Story (2021)
  • Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch (2022)

2021/22

  • Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties (2017)
  • Samantha Schweblin, Little Eyes (2018)
  • Sarah Gran, Come Closer (2003)
  • Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt (2022)

2020/21

  • Candyman (2021) cinema trip
  • Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians (2020)
  • Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (2016)
  • Sayaka Murata, Earthlings (2018)
  • Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre (2019)
  • Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic (2020)
  • Mariana Enriquez, Things We Lost in the Fire (2016)

2019/20

  • Robert Marasco, Burnt Offerings (1973)
  • Jane Healey, The Animals at Lockwood Manor (2020)
  • Shirley Jackson, Dark Tales (2016)
  • Color Out of Space (2020) cinema trip

2018/19

  • Midsommar (2019) cinema trip
  • Laura Purcell, The Corset (2018)
  • Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein (2019)
  • Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory (2019)
  • Rosie Garland, The Night Brother (2017)
  • Suspiria (2018) cinema trip
  • The Little Stranger (2018) film trip

2017/18

  • Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013, trans. English 2018)
  • Laura Pucell, The Silent Companions (2017)
  • William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley (1946)
  • Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (2018)

2016/17

  • Anne Rice, Prince Lestat (2014)
  • Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger (2009)
  • Natalie Young, Season to Taste or How to Eat Your Husband (2014)
  • Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World (2008)
  • Mira Grant, Feed (2010)

2015/16

  • Donal Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time (2011)
  • Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco (2007)
  • Crimson Peak (2015) - film trip
  • Kate Mosse, The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales (2013)

2014/15

  • Joyce Carol Oates, Zombie (1995)
  • Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf (2011)
  • Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors (1998)
  • M. R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts (2014)
  • Robert Aickman, The Unsettled Dust (1990, repr. 2014)

2013/14

  • Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies (2010)
  • Ben Aaranovitch, Rivers of London (2011)
  • Helen Oyeyemi, White is for Witching (2009)
  • Stephen McGeagh, Habit (2012)
  • J. J. Abrams and Dough Horst, s. (2013)
  • Dan Brown, Inferno (2013)
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