Monthly Archives: October 2018
Hallowe’en Greetings From OGOM
Hello OGOMERS, Wishing you a spooktacular Hallowe’en evening!!! We are just back from our Supernatural St Albans Halloween Tour which went down a real treat. Around 40 people engaged in our wonderfully weird history of witches, tortured martyrs, vampire graves, dragons, … Continue reading
Older than Dracula: in search of the English vampire
Older than Dracula: in search of the English vampire The Premature Burial. Antoine Wiertz (1854) Sam George, University of Hertfordshire The story of Count Dracula as many of us know it was created by Bram Stoker, an Irishman, in 1897. … Continue reading
Something to Howl About: OGOM Gothic Studies Special Issue, ‘Werewolves and Wildness’
We’re excited to announce that we have submitted our special issue of Gothic Studies on ‘Werewolves, Wild Children and Wilderness‘ to Edinburgh University Press for publication in May, 2019. This is the first of two publications that have developed from … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM: The Company of Wolves, Publications
Tagged feral children, Gothic Studies, Werewolves, Wild children, wildness
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Deviant Burial of ‘Vampire’ Child in C15th Italy
I am mapping ‘deviant’ burials for a piece I am writing on Wharram Percy, the medieval English village that mutilated its own dead, including many women and children. Whatever these people believed eventually took hold completely and led to them … Continue reading
OGOM: Spectral St Albans Hallowe’en Tour – booking now
OGOM is proud to announce a special Supernatural St Albans Hallowe’en Tour. We will be exploring the magical and spectral history of Hertfordshire’s finest gothic city. The event is informed by the research we carried out for our ‘Urban Weird‘ … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Gothic Hertfordshire, OGOM News, OGOM Research
Tagged dragons, Ghosts, gothic Hertfordshire, Halloween, St Albans, wicca, witches
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