- 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
Monthly Archives: January 2018
The Northern YA Literary Festival: Holly Black, Samantha Shannon, Alwyn Hamilton
The Northern YA Literary Festival is hosted by the University of Central Lancashire at Preston, 24 March 2018. This looks a great event: the wonderful Holly Black (probably my favourite author in YA paranormal romance) being interviewed by Samantha Shannon … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged Alwyn Hamilton, Fantasy, Feminism, Holly Black, Paranormal romance, publishing, Samantha Shannon, YA literature
Leave a comment
There Must Be An Angel #FebruaryAngels
A special announcement – in February OGOM will team up with the ever innovative, entertaining and educational FolkLore Film Festival on Twitter for a month of Angel-inspired fun, heavenly connections and celestial interventions. Join us on Twitter @OGOMProject @FolkloreFilmFes using the … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Fun stuff, News
Tagged angels, Film, Folklore, Folklore Film Festival, OGOM
Leave a comment
Big Bad Humans and Benevolent Wolves
Followers of OGOM will know that we have been at the forefront of debates around the cultural representation of the wolf since the Company of Wolves Conference in 2015. We went on to collaborate more fully with the UK Wolf … Continue reading
Exploring Gothic Romance
As part of my research into the formal qualities of Paranormal Romance, and how different genres encounter each other to generate this new kind of novel, I’m immersing myself into one of its forbears. Gothic Romance (sometimes known as fantasy … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM Research
Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Genre, Gothic novel, Gothic romance, Paranormal romance
2 Comments
Ursula Le Guin: Tributes and Analysis
Some more valuable links to material on the wonderful Ursula K. Le Guin who, sadly, died on Monday (22 January 2017). Tributes from her fellow writers in SF and fantasy: ‘The Science Fiction and Fantasy Community Remembers Ursula K. Le … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, Resources
Tagged Fantasy, Fredric Jameson, Genre, Marxism, SF, speculative fiction, Ursula Le Guin, utopia, utopianism
Leave a comment
RIP Ursula K. Le Guin
Photo by Marian Wood Kolisch/University of Oregon It’s very sad to hear of the death of Ursula K. Le Guin, aged 88. For me, no other writer of SF or fantasy reaches the heights that she did. She was a … Continue reading
Literature for the Living Impaired: Teaching Zombie YA Fiction
Histories of zombies tend to focus on their reanimation in film and understandably privilege the birth of the Romero zombie. The ‘living impaired’ in literature are often overlooked in these accounts, together with their relationship to folklore, so I appreciate … Continue reading
Folk Horror Returns Ahead of The Urban Weird in April
Folk Horror has officially returned!! This could not be more serendipitous given that in three months time the OGOM project will collaborate with Supernatural Cities to present The Urban Weird (6th, 7th April) with more than a slight nod to … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, OGOM: The Urban Weird
Tagged Folk Horror, St Albans, The Urban Weird
Leave a comment
Merpeople and Monstrous Lovers
I’ve not seen Guillermo del Toro’s film The Shape of Water yet, but it appears to be an intriguing take on the ‘Beauty and the Beast’ archetype that lies behind the genre of Paranormal Romance. With its love affair between … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, Resources
Tagged Film, Guillermo del Toro, mermaids, mermen, merpeople, Paranormal romance, selkies, sirens
4 Comments
Direwolves: Dogs in Wolves’ Clothing in Game of Thrones
OGOM’s ‘Redeeming the Wolf’ event explored how literature, folklore, fairytale, and film have shaped our perceptions of the wolf and could be impeding its return. Odin and Thor (above) are two ‘wolf dogs’ from Northern Ireland who play ‘direwolves’ in … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM: The Company of Wolves
Tagged Direwolves, Game of Thrones, Northern Innuits, wolf dogs, Wolves
2 Comments