Monthly Archives: August 2015

99.9% of all the species that have ever lived are now extinct: re-wild the wolf at Company of Wolves

Posted on 16th August 2015 by Sam George

It is estimated that 99.9% of all the species that have ever lived are now extinct. You can read the grim facts in ‘The Longer View: Instinct for Extinction’ and view the BBC Timeline of Extinction here Our Company of … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare’s Irish Werewolves

Posted on 16th August 2015 by Sam George

Serendipity is perhaps an overused term but I saw a production of As You Like It today, whilst taking time out from ‘Company of Wolves’, only to find a bardic reference to (were)wolves! In Act V, Scene ii when Rosalind … Continue reading →

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Company of Wolves: one of the most talked about social justice issues of the day

Posted on 12th August 2015 by Sam George

Recent events suggest that Animal Rights is quickly becoming one of the most talked about social justice issues of the twenty-first century. Garry Marvin, Professor of Human and Animal Studies at the University of Roehampton will be opening up some … Continue reading →

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Book Prize for Twilight of the Gothic

Posted on 5th August 2015 by Sam George

Congratulations to Joseph Crawford who was just won the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial prize for his monograph Twilight of the Gothic (University of Wales Press, 2013). Joseph came to speak to UH ‘Reading the Vampire’ students about this work earlier in … Continue reading →

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Roger Luckhurst, ‘From Dracula to The Strain: Where do vampires come from?’

Posted on 1st August 2015 by William the Bloody

A brilliant, concise overview of the origins of contemporary vampire narratives by Prof, Roger Luckhurst of Birkbeck College, London. He traces the vampire story from the Eats European accounts in the eighteenth-century through Polidori, Varney the Vampire, ‘Carmilla’ and (inevitably) … Continue reading →

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Darkness and Light: Exploring the Gothic exhibition, John Rylands Library, Manchester

Posted on 1st August 2015 by William the Bloody

Being in the centre of Manchester for the first time in months, I thought I’d drop in to the beautiful Victorian neo-Gothic John Rylands Library and see the Darkness and Light: Exploring the Gothic exhibition. It’s very, very good, with … Continue reading →

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UPDATE: Extended Deadline: Monstrous Messengers 17 Aug. 2015

Posted on 1st August 2015 by William the Bloody

Chapters still required for this collection of essays on ‘supernatural figures in children’s picture books and early readers’, edited by Leslie Ormandy. For this collection, three more papers from any discipline are welcome; however, advantaged are those focusing on a … Continue reading →

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Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland: An on-line annotated edition

Posted on 1st August 2015 by William the Bloody

This looks a fantastic resource for scholars, students, and anyone interested in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: An online annotated edition featuring twelve Lewis Carroll scholars taking one chapter each, plus illustrations and remixes from the classic 1865 and … Continue reading →

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CFP: “Expanding the Scope of Horror”

Posted on 1st August 2015 by William the Bloody

A Call for Articles for a special journal issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities exploring new approaches to the study of horror. The proposed set of essays and book reviews would have as its main objective to offer a new practical model … Continue reading →

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