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Fang Café

29th October 2014 By aAh! 0 285

By Dan J Broadley The Humanities in Public’s Gothic Manchester Festival 2014 drew to a close as the city bar, Fab Café, was re-branded for the evening as ‘The Fang Café’. Festival organisers hosted a vampire themed pub quiz, which you don’t see every day, so all the Gothic enthusiasts I met there were pretty…
Lifestyle, News
Gothic Spaces Gothic Places

29th October 2014 By aAh! 0 275

By Dan J Broadley The Humanities in Public Festival’s Gothic takeover of Manchester saw the International Anthony Burgess Foundation host the ‘Gothic Spaces/Gothic Places’ conference. Not being well-versed in Gothic themes, I was worried I’d have no idea what anyone was talking about. However, I was pleasantly surprised, as the speakers on all four panels…
Interview, Manchester, News
The Shock Horror Doctrine: Twisted Tales of Austerity at Gothic Manchester 2014

29th October 2014 By aAh! 0 412

By Neil Harrison The fightback against government austerity measures took a turn for the macabre at this year’s Gothic Manchester Festival. Contributors to a new anthology of austerity themed horror stories, Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease, including co-editor, Tom Johnstone, gathered to read excerpts from the book and discuss its wider…
Entertainment, News
‘What is This Thing Called Steampunk?’

28th October 2014 By aAh! 0 743

We continue our coverage of the Gothic Manchester Festival with an exploration of Steampunk… By Lucy Simpson Photographs c/o Ade Hunter/MMU Calling all lovers of creativity, nostalgia, and brass-goggles! Steampunk is for you. So, ‘What is this thing called Steampunk?’, “We will certainly be answering this question in full”, Helen Malarky, Manchester Metropolitan University’s Humanities-in-Public…
Manchester, News
Rosie Garland: A Goth Icon

27th October 2014 By aAh! 0 532

By Ruth Cornish On Sunday, the Gothic Manchester Festival 2014 hosted one of the UK’s most legendary Gothic icons, Rosie Garland, at the John Rylands Library. Rosie delighted the audience with readings from her work and a revealing question and answer session before rounding off the event with book signings and a delicious cake. But…

Fang Café

Gothic Spaces Gothic Places

The Shock Horror Doctrine: Twisted Tales of Austerity at Gothic Manchester 2014

‘What is This Thing Called Steampunk?’

Rosie Garland: A Goth Icon

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