Brontë Schiltz is a PhD candidate researching the Televisual Gothic at the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University. Her work includes academia, journalism, creative non-fiction, short fiction, flash fiction, poetry and theatre.
Creative writing
Contents May Vary (2022)
Break (2021)
More of Gravy than of Grave (2021)
Time (2018)
Inside/Out (2016)
No Death For The Perfect Men (2016)
#kidsthesedays (2015)
Academia
Nigel Kneale: The Visionary Who Transformed TV Horror (2024)
The Folklore Podcast, Haunted Television [podcast episode] (2024)
There’s Not Always a Twist, Episode 1: Culture Club with Brontë Schiltz [podcast episode] (2024)
"Can you do it surrounded?": magic and television in Inside No. 9 [video] (2023)
“Welcome home, dear”: my first encounter with the Gothic (2023)
“The technology makes them stronger”: 70 years of haunted television [video] (2023)
“I think there’s a ghost in the TV”: Britain’s Televisual Gothic (2023)
BERGCAST, Episode 34 - Things Recorded in the Walls, feat Brontë Schiltz [podcast episode] (2023)
“What is TV, anyway?” Television’s infectious horrors in Charlie Brooker’s Dead Set (2023)
The Death Studies Podcast, Bonus Episode - Death and the Screen Special Issue of Revenant and Dr Ruth Heholt [podcast episode] (2023)
Ghosts in the Living Room: the Televisual Gothic on Britain’s Screens (2022)
“But what about me, and what I felt?”: Morrissey’s List of the Lost as Queer Gothic (2022)
“It is unutterable”: Sexual Transgression in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (2021)
The Ghost Story Book Club, Television Ghost Stories [podcast episode] (2021)
Victorian Legacies, Vernon Lee and The String of Pearls (Sweeney Todd) [podcast episode] (2021)
“Mysterious Influences”: Queer Pandemics in the Gothic Fin de Siècle [video] (2021)
British Televisual Gothic [video] (2021)
Victorian Queer Gothic [video] (2020)
"Sick with Longing": Sickness and Sexual Dissidence in the Victorian Gothic Imagination (2020)
Journalism
“My son was stabbed to death by his girlfriend. He didn't know how to escape domestic abuse” (2025)
Artist Stuart Semple on why education in the arts needs an urgent reset: 'It's like battery farming' (2025)
This innovative 'village' under Manchester's railway arches helps tackle homelessness (2025)
Too many babies don't have a safe place to sleep. This baby bank is trying to change that (2025)
Riots are not inevitable – just ask the people of Manchester's Moss Side (2024)
'People in prison need art, music and reading': Inside the prison libraries that break down walls (2024)
The remarkable ways a Yorkshire children's charity is fighting hidden poverty and rural destitution (2024)
'This is still just the beginning': How Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food changed a nation (2024)
Why we need to remember the truth about the Holocaust all year round (2024)
Manchester mayor Andy Burnham: ‘If you don’t give people good homes they can’t have good lives’ (2024)
Cracking Good Food: Meet the group giving out free kitchen equipment to those in need (2024)
Inside a warm bank – where Brits struggling with bills are finding shelter: ‘The tea helps a lot’ (2023)
Half of all homeless people have a brain injury. This project provides essential support (2023)
‘We started as a boxing gym – now we’re a whole community’ (2023)
Museum of Austerity: The mixed reality exhibition giving a voice to victims of benefit cuts (2023)
This orchestra is giving dementia sufferers something to sing about: ‘Music changes lives’ (2023)
Review: Jadoo (2023)
Review: Toxic (2023)
How gentrification and hostile architecture have pushed out the working class (2023)
It’s a Sin star Nathaniel Hall on abuse, finding humour in dark places and powerful new show Toxic (2023)
How young people in prison are getting a fresh start by giving free haircuts to homeless people (2023)
The story of the world’s first drag ABBA tribute band [Mark Gatiss and Ian Hallard interview] (2023)
The Quatermass Experiment at 70: The show that invented modern TV (2023)
My Pitch: Colin, 70 Oxford St (11-1pm), and Home, Tony Wilson Place (1-6pm), Manchester (2023)
Review: Trap of the Truth and Where The Bodies Are Buried (2023)
Chronicles of the Quarter Life, Brontë Schiltz - Optimistic Socialism [podcast episode] (2023)
Community grocers have become the nation’s safety net (2023)
As Eurovision takes over Liverpool, ‘Izyum to Liverpool’ reminds us why it can’t be in Ukraine (2023)
Author Q&A: Esther Yi (2023)
Author Q&A: Catherine Lacey (2023)
Couldn’t escape if I wanted to
[Mark Gatiss and Ian Hallard interview] (2023)Author Q&A: Laura Purcell (2023)
Author Q&A: Katy Hays (2023)
Author Q&A: William Boyd (2022)
Author Q&A: Ainslie Hogarth (2022)