Daily Archives: 4th November 2018

Vampires: Dracula, James Joyce, Jane Austen, bats, and Marx

Posted on 4th November 2018 by William the Bloody

Again, a bit too late for Hallowe’en, but a handful of essays on vampires here: 1. Recent research at the London Library on Bram Stoker’s annotations to source material for Dracula: ‘The Books That Made Dracula‘. 2. Austen Gilkeson, ‘The … Continue reading →

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CFPs: Myth and dream, tales of terror, Romanticism

Posted on 4th November 2018 by William the Bloody

Three very tempting conferences with CFPs: 1. Myth and Dream / The Dreaming of Myth, University of Bologna, 23-24 May 2019; deadline 1 February 2019. The conference invites proposals addressing diverse approaches to the combination of myth and dream – … Continue reading →

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Night of the Gorgeous Goth Girls–again!!

Posted on 4th November 2018 by William the Bloody

This poem was meant as a light-hearted celebration of all things Gothic, and of scholars and students in the field. I crammed in as many tropes, archetypes, characters, and clichés as I could, torturously straining the rhymes on the rack. … Continue reading →

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Frankenstein: essays and 1910 film

Posted on 4th November 2018 by William the Bloody

A bit behind with blogging, so quite a few Frankenstein items have accumulated (it being, as I’m sure you’ll know, the 200th anniversary of the novel’s publication). First, a brief discussion, with some very useful links, of the claim by … Continue reading →

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