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Author Archives: William the Bloody
Return to the Enchanted Forest: Review of My Neighbour Totoro (play) by Jane Gill
My Neighbour Totoro, winner of six Olivier Awards, is now playing at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London’s West End. The show is an adaptation of the 1988 animated feature film (dir. by Hayao Miyazaki) from Studio Ghibli and is … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, animation, anime, forest spirits, Studio Ghibli, theatre
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Black-eyed Dracula! Review of Blackeyed Theatre’s production (touring from September 2024) by Jane Gill
Nick Lane’s adaptation of Dracula preserves the eerie essence of Bram Stoker’s classic while adding a fresh, contemporary twist. The promotional blurb promises that ‘as a new shadow looms large over England, a small group of young men and women, … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Reviews
Tagged adaptation, Bram Stoker, Dracula, theatre, vampire plays, Vampires
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CFP and Events: ECR prize, horror, Green Children, fairy tales and race, Scottish and Irish Gothic, folklore
We’ve had a fabulous response to our CFP for the Sea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river conference. We’ll keep you updated with news on what looks to be an amazing event. … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), Events
Tagged changelings, digital humanities, ECRs, fairies, Fairy tales, Folklore, Gothic, horror, racism, Scandinavian folklore, Scottish Gothic
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CFP OGOM Conference 2025: Sea changes
Sea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river Venue: The British Library, London, UK (and online) Date: 5–6 September 2025 (6th on line) Fabulous, enchanted beings, hybridly human and other, populate the expanses … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), OGOM: Sea Changes
Tagged art, Blue Humanities, CFP, enchantment, fairytale, Genre, Gothic, Hybridity, mermaids, ningyo, Paranormal romance, selkies, sexuality, sirens
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Sam George: BBC interview on vampires, disease, and immortality
Sam has been interviewed for BBC News alongside the horror writer and actor Mark Gatiss and Interview with the Vampire writer Rolin Jones. She talks about the immortality of the vampire and how it has always been associated with disease … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM Research
Tagged disease, immortality, nosferatu, plague, Polidori, tuberculosis, Vampires
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Review: Lowry Charles Wimberley, Folklore in the English and Scottish Ballads
This book is a fascinating read in its own right but it is also an invaluable source for my research into fairy literature that I have been pursuing along with Sam as part of the OGOM Project. This is a … Continue reading
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Tagged ballads, ethnology, fairies, Folklore, Ghosts, mermaids, Otherworld, paganism, Werewolves, witches
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Out today! (1 October 2024) OGOM Project’s new book, The Legacy of John Polidori: The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny
The Legacy of John Polidori: The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny, ed. by Dr Sam George and Dr Bill Hughes Out now from Manchester University Press. This collection of essays begins with a Forward, ‘Poldori Revisited’, by the pioneer of … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, OGOM Research
Tagged Anne Rice, Byron, Frankenstein, Glenarvon, Gothic tourism, Haitian Revolution, John Polidori, Lady Caroline Lamb, Mary Shelley, Neil Jordan, phantasmagoria, Romanticism, spiritualism, the Uncanny, The Vampyre, tuberculosis, Twilight, Vampires
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CFPs: Haunted Futures, folklore and Gothic, Blue Humanities, Dennis Wheatley, Gramarye
CFPs for conferences and edited collections: 1. Haunted Futures Conference: ‘The Future of Folklore’ University College Cork, 29-30 October 2024Deadline: 24 August 2024 The conference proposes to explore hauntings and ghosts as potent staging grounds for radical social change, which, … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences)
Tagged Blue Humanities, Dennid, Dennis Wheatley, eco-Gothic, fairy tale, Fantasy, Folk Horror, Folklore, Ghosts, Gothic, haunting, horror, interdisciplinarity, landscapes
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CFPs and Events: Horror, Gothic poetry, monstrosity and Romanticism, Gothic books, Georgic Gothic
1. Horror Studies Now: A Two-Day Conference Northumbria University, UK, 30-31 May 2024.Deadline: 31 March 2024 Researchers working in the broad field of “Horror Studies” are invited to submit abstracts about their research for an in-person conference, hosted by the … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences), Events
Tagged creative writing, eco-Gothic, Film, Folk Horror, Georgics, Gothic, graveyard, Graveyard School, horror, Mathew Lewis, pastoral, poetry, Romanticism, terror
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