Brontë Schiltz is a writer, journalist, and PhD candidate researching the Televisual Gothic at the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Creative writing
Analog Horror (2026) [anthology; tutor and editor]
And Yet, We Watch… (2026) [blog]
The Wild Hunt (2026) [short story]
Writing the Gothic (2026) [anthology; tutor and editor]
The Book of Manchester contributing author Brontë Schiltz: “You can learn so much from reading other people’s work” (2024) [interview]
Contents May Vary: Brontë Schiltz Author Blog (2024) [blog]
Contents May Vary (2022) [short story]
Break (2021) [poem]
More of Gravy than of Grave (2021) [creative non-fiction]
Time (2018) [short story]
Inside/Out (2016) [play]
No Death For The Perfect Men (2016) [play]
#kidsthesedays (2015) [play]
Academia
The Premonitions Broadcasts: Technology and Prophesy in British Television Horror (2026)
Romancing the Gothic, Robert Aickman and the Art of the Artifice Short Story with Brontë Schiltz (2026) [video]
The Ghost Story Book Club, 'A Wicked Voice' by Vernon Lee with Brontë Schiltz (2025) [podcast episode]
The Ghost Story Book Club, LIVE EPISODE: Night of the Demon and M.R. James with Brontë Schiltz and Catherine Spooner (2025) [podcast episode]
Queer Lit, “The Queer Victorian Gothic” with Brontë Schiltz (2025) [podcast episode]
Romancing the Gothic, “Outside broadcast at the end of the world”: Introduction to Nigel Kneale (2025) [video]
Quatermass 2 commentary (2025) [commentary]
The Legend of Nigel Kneale: Enemy from Space (2025) [documentary]
The Legend of Nigel Kneale: The Creeping Unknown (2025) [documentary]
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)
Romancing the Gothic, “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)
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)
Romancing the Gothic,Victorian Queer Gothic [video] (2020)
"Sick with Longing": Sickness and Sexual Dissidence in the Victorian Gothic Imagination (2020)
Journalism
I spent 60 hours sat in a bathtub in Leeds to show how my soap company can tackle addiction (2026)
'Who are you going to trust on social media? You can trust what you hear at Jodrell Bank' (2026)
The growing movement preventing homeless people from having to choose between their pet and a home (2026)
Andy Burnham: 'It’s so hard when people just walk past' (2026)
Big Issue vendors and their dogs take housing fight to parliament: 'I’d be lost without her' (2026)
History-making hot air balloon pilot Bertrand Piccard: 'AI has to be at the service of humankind' (2026)
'We look after food banks. If big banks did the same the world would be a much better place' (2026)
Children's author Jacqueline Wilson: 'Reading is becoming niche – like stamp collecting' (2026)
My Pitch: Nathan Dale, Manchester Piccadilly Railway Station (2025)
Poet Rowan McCabe didn't know his neighbours. So he went door to door writing poems for them (2025)
The prison piano project striking a chord: 'Music expresses how much we all have in common' (2025)
A View, From a Bridge is the social media sensation where strangers reveal all on an old, red phone (2025)
'I'm so lucky': How one man went from drinking himself to death to rescuing thousands of stray dogs (2025)
Riefenstahl director Andres Veiel on the lessons we must learn from Hitler's favourite filmmaker (2025)
“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)