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Monthly Archives: May 2016
YA Fiction and Style
Too many YA novels, more so, I suspect, in the very commercial realm of paranormal romance, are let down by their style–even among the most interesting and complex ones. Too often, these fictions are narrated in the first person and … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Critical thoughts
Tagged Fantasy, Paranormal romance, selkie, style, YA Fiction
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Review: Katherine Langrish, Seven Miles of Steel Thistles
Nicholas Lezard in The Guardian reviews here a collection of essays on the fairy tale, Seven Miles of Steel Thistles, by the folklorist Katherine Langrish. It sounds a fascinating book, covering tales from the English ‘Mr Fox’, Irish tales (her title … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles
Tagged Charles Perrault, Fairy tales, Grimms, Irish, Japanese
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Gargoyle Romance and Capture Fantasy
The world of paranormal romance is wide and strange and generically multifarious. Human beings engage erotically with almost every monster the psyche has conjured up, even those where consummation seems somewhat impractical–ghosts, mermen, and zombies, for example. Some of the … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, Fun stuff
Tagged capture fantasy, erotica, Genre, Monsters, Paranormal romance, sexuality
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Terry Pratchett Symposium, Dublin City University, 28 May 2016
The CFP for this symposium on Terry Pratchett has closed now–I’m not sure whether we saw it and posted it. But it still looks to be a brilliant event and well worth attending.
The Wicked Lady Rides Again
If you are a fan of wicked ladies (who isn’t) you won’t want to miss my colleague Dr Rowland Hughes talking about Hertfordshire legend Lady Skelton who transformed into a real life highwaywoman!! She is the dark lady that inspired … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Film Clips, Publications, Reviews
Tagged folkore, highwaywoman, University of Hertfordshire, wicked lady
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Contemporary Gothic Study Day, Lancaster University, 20 May 2016
This looks like a brilliant day on contemporary Gothic at Lancaster University, organised by Catherine Spooner’s Gothic scholars and featuring Emma McEvoy (University of Westminster) and the award-winning novelist Andrew Michael Hurley. In addition, there are papers on a wide … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged contemporary Gothic, folk Gothic, Ghosts, horror, J. G. Ballard, Werewolves
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OGOM Newsletter May 2016
Dear OGOM followers, We hope you’re all well. We have quite a few news items. First of all, OGOM’s first book, ‘Open Graves, Open Minds’: Representations of the Undead from the Enlightenment to the Present, will be out in paperback … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM News
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Angela Carter
I’m a day late, but this is to honour the birthday of one of the most important twentieth-century English writers. Angela Carter (whose official website is here) drew on folkloric, fairy tale, and Gothic themes in her gloriously baroque explorations … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Angela Carter, Company, fairy tale, Folklore, Gothic
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Vampire Radio
Stuart Maconie has a whole show devoted to vampire-themed music today on BBC 6 Music! I’ve not listened to it yet, but it’s available for the next 29 days. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b079vhq9
Witches in Contemporary Culture
We’ve been pursuing witch related themes for a while now; I think this is becoming a central line of research for OGOM. This is a very interesting essay by Moze Halperin on the power of contemporary witch narratives, such as … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Feminism, Film, Puritanism, radicalism, sexuality, witches
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