Monthly Archives: May 2016

Arabian Nights Vol 1: The Restless One review

Posted on 7th May 2016 by William the Bloody

From Peter Bradshaw’s enthusiastic review here, and others elsewhere, this looks to be a brilliant film. Miguel Gomes’s film shows contemporary Portuguese life obliquely through the framed tale structure of The Thousand and One Nights. The Nights is another of … Continue reading →

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Jane Eyre’s Fantastic Origins

Posted on 7th May 2016 by William the Bloody

More on Jane Eyre (it is, after all, the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth) and its complex intertextual relationships with other texts and genres (following my post below). Here, Emma Butcher traces the novel’s origins in Brontë’s (and her … Continue reading →

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Jane Eyre–a YA novel?

Posted on 7th May 2016 by William the Bloody

A provocative article by the YA author Lena Coakley, claiming Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel of autonomy, education, and desire as a YA novel. This challenges ideas of the canon and of genre, of course, and does have a certain validity, … Continue reading →

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CFP: Histories of Magic and Sexuality

Posted on 7th May 2016 by William the Bloody

We at OGOM, who have consorted frequently with vampires and other darkly seductive creatures, know how the equally mysterious powers of sex and magic are intimately related. Mackenzie Cooley, of Stanford University, is seeking short articles on magic and sexuality … Continue reading →

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Women Writing SF and Fantasy

Posted on 7th May 2016 by William the Bloody

Some of the most interesting and innovative writing in speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy have been women, despite these genre’s domination by men and, possibly, the prevalence of masculine values (especially true of SF). This is a list of … Continue reading →

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Juliet Landau: Vampire Documentary

Posted on 6th May 2016 by William the Bloody

Dread Central here with an interview with the fabulous Juliet Landau, who has worked with Tim Burton and played the delightfully creepy Drusilla in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and is now producing a documentary on vampires, A Place Among the … Continue reading →

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Open Graves, Open Minds Book – Out in Paperback on 1st June!!

Posted on 6th May 2016 by Sam George

The paperback of the Open Graves, Open Minds vampire book arrived in the MUP offices today! You can pre-order it now on Amazon priced at a very reasonable 15.99 (due 1st June).   Very exciting! If you are teaching the gothic, … Continue reading →

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Burn the Witch

Posted on 3rd May 2016 by William the Bloody

I’ve just been alerted to this by a friend. The music alone is wonderful; the subject and the brilliant video make it a must for OGOM. We were chatting below about disco and Gothic; Sam commented there about folk Gothic … Continue reading →

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Vampire Zombies Run Amok in the Big Apple

Posted on 2nd May 2016 by Sam George

One of my PhD students Jillian has been writing on The Strain. For those of you who are not familiar with it The Strain is a 2009 vampire novel by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. It is the first … Continue reading →

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Disco and Dystopia

Posted on 2nd May 2016 by William the Bloody

With regard to Sam’s remarks on my previous post of a disco Walpurgisnacht, where we saw disco music as antithetical to Gothic, I was just reminded of this. It’s a dystopian Dr Moreau-like fantasy of science going wrong and mutating … Continue reading →

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