‘Prints of Darkness: macabre vintage posters’
The Guardian has posted a series of macabre vintage posters entitled ‘Prints of Darkness’. (Whoever thought of that title needs some form of award!). They are dark, decadent and delightful. It is...
View ArticleAndrew Smith, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein
Andrew Smith of the University of Sheffield has edited this exciting new collection of essays on Frankenstein in the always-useful Cambridge Companions series–out in September 2016. It approaches the...
View ArticleBook: Gina Wisker, Contemporary Women’s Gothic Fiction: Carnival, Hauntings...
This new book by Gina Wisker, Contemporary Women’s Gothic Fiction: Carnival, Hauntings and Vampire Kisses, looks marvellous. It covers Angela Carter and vampires–two topics that always whet my OGOM...
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Manderley Today: 80 Years of Du Maurier’s Rebecca
I first read Daphne du Maurier’s haunting Gothic Romances in my early teens. In my thirties I did an evening class in Female Gothic run by the pioneering Avril Horner and Sue Zloznik. This featured...
View ArticleBuffy the Vampire Slayer: academia and Gothic heroines
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a foundational text in many ways–not least, for OGOM’s origins, being the series which, with its wit, humanity, and dark imagination led me into vampire studies. It’s...
View ArticleGenre, dreadpunk, mannerpunk, the female Gothic
What constitutes a genre or subgenre and whether even the concept of genre itself has any use is much debated; it’s certainly a focal point of OGOM research, where we’re often concerned with what...
View ArticleCFPs: Vampires, Gothic feminism, zombies, youth horror, creative work
A set of conference CFPs and call for articles:1. Academic Vampire Conference: Hammer, Highgate, and the Vampire, 10-13 July 2019, Lauderdale House, Highgate Village. Deadline: 3 May 2019. The...
View ArticleCFPs and Events: Shirley Jackson, zombie theory, Victorian popular fiction,...
Academic and cultural life is still persisting, thankfully. The Gothic creative spirit is resisting Gothic times! So, some announcements here on events, conferences, and edited collections. 1. CFP for...
View ArticleGothic Bodies: North West Long Nineteenth Century Seminar 3 November, 2021
Join us in November for the North West Long Nineteenth-Century Seminar series, hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University This Halloween seminar will focus on Gothic bodies from the Romantic period...
View ArticleCFPs: Hauntings, Southern Gothic, YA, fantasy, female Gothic, queer Arthuriana
Conference papers and articles for publication requested: 1. CFP: Hauntings Halloween Symposium, online, 30 October 2022. Deadline: 1 June 2022 The CFP is now live for our second annual Halloween...
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