Monthly Archives: October 2020
A Spooky True Story for Halloween with a Hertfordshire link
A short article by Daisy Butcher ‘The Death of Marie Emily ‘Netta’ Fornario in 1929′ Marie Emily ‘Netta’ Fornario was born in 1897 in Cairo to an Italian doctor and English mother. Her mother died while she was still an … Continue reading
Posted in Gothic Hertfordshire, OGOM Research
Tagged Daisy Butcher, fairies, Fornario, Golden Dawn, gothic Hertfordshire, Paranormal
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The Coffin Boffin’s Choice of Vintage Vampire Shorts
Here, in all their beauty and glory are my pick of the greatest vintage vampire shorts; seductive and predatory, terrifying and comic, vital and metaphoric, doomed and daring! View Post
Posted in MA Reading the Vampire module news, OGOM Research
Tagged Halloween, vampire books, vampire literature, Vampires
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America’s first vampire was Black and revolutionary – it’s time to remember him
Article by Sam George, University of Hertfordshire The Black Vampyre is an early literary example of an argument for emancipation of slaves. Thomas Nast/Harper’s Weekly/The Met In April of 1819, a London periodical, the New Monthly Magazine, published The Vampyre: … Continue reading
The Black Vampyre: Gothic Visions of New Worlds #BeingHuman2020
We’re excited to invite you to our forthcoming event to explore Gothic dreams of new worlds and the creatures that inhabit them, notably Mary Shelley’s plague world, John Polidori’s vampyre, the Black Vampyre, and the ghosts of World War 1. … Continue reading
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Tagged black vampire, Ghosts, plague, Polidori, Shelley, Vampires, vampyre, Wollstonecraft, Word War 1
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