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Monthly Archives: March 2018
Review: Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic
Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic, edited by Robert McKay and John Miller (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2017. 272 pages). The eleven essays in McKay and Miller’s Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic focus on a creature that has already been analysed … Continue reading
Full Programme for OGOM and Supernatural Cities Present: The Urban Weird, 6th-7th April
Our design for ‘The Urban Weird’ 6th-7th April has now been released in all its glory. You can view all the wonderful panels and events over two days and see the graphics for our complete programme here. If you are … Continue reading
The Urban Weird 6th-7th April Booking is Open
The amazing OGOM and Supernatural Cities present ‘The Urban Weird’ on 6th-7th April is now open for bookings!! You can log on and select a number of events from spectral city tours to Urban Weird screenings and workshops!! Find out … Continue reading
Posted in Events, OGOM News, OGOM: The Urban Weird
Tagged Folk Horror, OGOM, St Albans, Supernatural Cities, University of Hertfordshire, urban weird
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Urban Weird Conference News
I’m just announcing one or two changes to the line up for our forthcoming ultra exciting ‘Urban Weird’ conference. We now have Dr Mikel Koven taking us on a filmic, folkloric, urban weird journey into witches through the ages, following … Continue reading
Posted in Events, OGOM News, OGOM: The Urban Weird
Tagged OGOM, Supernatural Cities, The Urban Weird
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Frankenstein and Counter-Enlightenment
I’m sure many will have seen the furore stirred up in social media, particularly among Gothicists, by the Sun’s article on Frankenstein, which screams, ‘SNOWFLAKE students claim Frankenstein’s monster was a misunderstood victim with feelings’. I don’t think it’s altogether … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged empathy, Enlightenment, Frankenstein, human rights, Mary Shelley, The Sun
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The Selkie: Storytelling, Poetry & Panel
I am teaching Selkies this week on OGOM’s YA gothic course and I have just discovered this Selkie: Storytelling, Poetry & Panel Discussion on the 19th March in Brighton. The event is part of Imogen Di Sapia’s exhibition The Selkie: Weaving … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Generation Dead: YA Fiction and the Gothic news, News
Tagged selkie novels, selkies
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CFPs: Angela Carter, Lewis Carroll and George MacDonald, Contemporary Gothic
Some more calls for papers and articles here: Ludics & Laughter as Feminist Aesthetic: Angela Carter at Play ‘Salman Rushdie famously called Carter a “one-off.” In this international collection of essays, we will consider that ludics and laughter contribute to … Continue reading
Manderley Today: 80 Years of Du Maurier’s Rebecca
I first read Daphne du Maurier’s haunting Gothic Romances in my early teens. In my thirties I did an evening class in Female Gothic run by the pioneering Avril Horner and Sue Zloznik. This featured Rebecca among other exciting texts. … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, OGOM Research
Tagged Du Maurier, Female Gothic, Genre, Gothic romance, Paranormal romance, women's writing
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CFPs: Fantastika, Dark Arts, the Supernatural, Popular Culture, Witchcraft, Trees & Forests
There is a whole batch of CFPs for various exciting events here: Theorising the Popular Conference, Liverpool Hope University, 11-12 July 2018 The conference invites submissions from a broad range of disciplines, and is particularly interested in new ways of … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged fantastic, Folklore, forests, heritage, landscape, myth, popular culture, supernatural, tourism, trees, witchcraft
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