- Join 9,963 other subscribers.
Blog Stats
- 286,480 hits
Search by Category:
Meta
Tags
- adaptation
- aesthetics
- Angela Carter
- Animals
- art
- body Gothic
- Bram Stoker
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- CFP
- Children's literature
- Company of Wolves
- Conference
- Dracula
- fairies
- fairy tale
- Fairy tales
- Fantasy
- Female Gothic
- Feminism
- Film
- Folklore
- Frankenstein
- gender
- Genre
- Gothic
- Gothic novel
- horror
- Horror Film
- Intertextuality
- Monsters
- music
- myth
- Paranormal romance
- popular culture
- sexuality
- SF
- TV
- Twilight
- Vampires
- Werewolves
- witches
- Wolves
- women
- YA Fiction
- Zombies
Tag Archives: Goethe
Witches and Walpurgis Night
Happy Walpurgisnacht! Here’s an excellent article by Prof. Owen Davies of the University of Hertfordshire, ‘Witches and Walpurgis Night‘. He traces the folkloric origins of the supposed sabbat of witches through Goethe and Bram Stoker to contemporary popular culture.
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Bram Stoker, Goethe, Horror Film, magic, music, Walpurgisnacht, witches
Leave a comment