The Dark Arts Journal – Promoting upcoming and emerging voices in the Gothic
Some of you may have noticed a new link on the OGOM blog. However, I also wanted to draw your attention to it in a post. The Dark Arts Journal has just published its first volume, ‘The Gothic Subject’....
View ArticleReview of ‘Crimson Peak’ (2015)
I have found it difficult to start this review and not just because procrastination is my middle name. In part the difficulty arises in trying to vocalise my disappointment at what had the potential to...
View ArticleThe 25 Best Horror Movies since 2000, A.V. Club
Here’s an intriguing list of the 25 Best Horror Movies since 2000 compiled by the A.V. Club. Now, I don’t watch much horror because I have a weak stomach, an over-active imagination, and a tendency for...
View ArticleA Round-Up of the Best YA and Children’s Literature of 2015
The Guardian has written a round-up of the best children’s literature of 2015 (including YA literature). It’s worth looking through for the tales that have Gothic or lupine tropes. There are a few that...
View ArticleA Festive Post on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Over on our Facebook page, Bill has just shared an article by the AV Club, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer staked its claim to a twist on a Christmas classic’. It’s a very thoughtful article on the Season...
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New Books for the New Year
Happy New Year! And I hope the first Monday of 2016 is treating you well. Though I didn’t get as many books read as I would have liked over the festive period (reading was replaced with eating, running...
View Article‘Witches’ Brew’ at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, February 2016
It’s not just vampires, werewolves and zombies that draw our interest at OGOM. We are equal opportunity supernatural entities and Sam has certainly been flying the flag for witches. (She has blogged...
View ArticleThe Lesbian Vampire: A (Fairly) Brief Media Retrospective
The Mary Sue has written a relatively brief (as the title suggests), but still interesting, media retrospective on the lesbian vampire. It covers more recent portrayals and I was very pleased to see...
View ArticleFairy Tale Fashion at the FIT, NY
This is another post for my transatlantic friends (and one which I am bitterly jealous about and on which I have previously blogged). The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, are hosting an...
View Article‘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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