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Launching today, The Dundee Review, is a twenty-first-century literary magazine for original gothic, terror, horror and fantasy fiction. Submit your stories now! dundeereview.com

October 2026:

Out now from @BloomsburyBooks:

Meet Mary Ann Baxter, a major philanthropist and co-founder of University College, Dundee, the forerunner of @dundeeuni. The deed of endowment stated that the college should promote "the education of persons of both sexes and the study of Science, Literature and the Fine Arts". Her portrait (pictured) hangs in the university’s Dalhousie Building. I pass it most days - and each time I think of the driving message of that deed. (Oh, and Mary Shelley fans might recognise that Baxter name.) Legend.

Looking forward to the Dundee Book Festival @LACDundee!

The good folk at @ODEONCinemas have asked me to introduce the first screening of the new Nosferatu in Dundee - timings to follow! odeon.co.uk/films/nosferatu/…

“Awful and stern the rugged entrance low’rs That leads to Caledonia’s last retreats, Where oft in days of yore, contending pow’rs On the dark threshold shone in dreadful feats” Anne Grant, ‘Sonnet’, in The Highlanders, and Other Poems (1808) To celebrate #StAndrewsDay why not check out Scottish Poetry, 1730-1830 in the @OWC_Oxford series (available now in paperback and e-book): global.oup.com/academic/prod…

Check out my guest blog post for @natlibscot, featuring original artworks by Steven Learmonth. This follows last month's roundtable discussion of Mary Shelley and the Scottish Gothic Tradition with Alastair Braidwood and Emily Alder. nls.uk/papercut/mary-shelley…

We had a sellout crowd at the @natlibscot this evening for our blether about Frankenstein and Scottish Gothic. The tie-in exhibition, which runs for two more weeks, features Mary Shelley’s letters and much more besides.