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.
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)
Creative writing
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
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)