The Liverpool International Gothic Festival

12/12/2014

Keep an eye on the site and an ear to the ground...

12/10/2014

Sooo, the Gothic months are upon us... liminal times in which transformations occur. Unleash your creativity and enter the short story competition.

06/10/2014

The British Library’s most recent exhibition, ‘Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination’, opened its doors on October 3rd to celebrate 250 years of the Gothic tradition. Here is a link to BBC Radio 4’s latest ‘Saturday Review’ in which this exciting new exhibition is discussed!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04k4032

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Tom Sutcliffe chairs sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events.

05/10/2014

Behold the eerie work of Brazilian street artist Herbert Baglione. These ghostly shadows painted in an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Parma, Italy are a part of an ongoing project titled “1000 Shadows.” Baglione’s work isn’t just limited to abandoned psychiatric hospitals (although I truly dig…

01/10/2014

25/09/2014

Shiverpool News

16/09/2014

Check this out Goblins!- The Ghost Bus will be featuring in this year's Gothic Festival also! What Gothic spaces would you like it to visit?

Ladies, Gentlemen, Goblins! Take your seats for a non-stop theatrical bus touronboard a historic Routemaster Bus.En route, the thrills and spills,and secret history of one of the world's greatest cities awaits.Available dates: 21st-26th + 30th and 31st October 2014 starting at 7PM

16/09/2014

The world is full of wondrous things, some consistently packed with gawking tourist and others almost entirely abandoned. Here’s a selection of some of those fascinating empty spaces, ghost towns that are rich with history and the stories of the people that used to occupy them. While most continue t…

04/06/2014

What’s the best way to unearth the city’s best stories? And, while we’re at it, what’s a surefire way to get access all areas for some of our most alluring mercantile buildings (the ones UNESCO says we should treasure)? Here’s a clue – it’s not from the upper deck of an open topped bus. Nor, really,…

20/05/2014

Television channel Drama reveal the which literary characters British public find the most sinister.

19/04/2014

Have a cracking Creepster holiday goblins! Things that go bump in the night! http://dangerousminds.net/comments/things_that_go_bump_in_the_night_vintage_1920s_stereoview_images_of_ghouls

These vintage stereoview images from 1923 of a little girl sleeping while goblins and boogeyman creep around her bed and hover over her are a little silly looking, yes. But, they’re still psychologically disturbing, tapping into the primordial fear of something under the bed like some kind of prot…