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Author Archives: William the Bloody
Kafka in animation
The excellent Open Culture website (a marvellous repository of open source texts of all kinds) has four wonderful animations from around the world of Franz Kafka’s dark fables.
Red Riding Hood and Illustrations
Pook Press are a small independent publisher who do some lovely editions of fairy tales and classic children’s literature. Every fortnight, they post a different fairy tale on their blog; this is Perrault’s very familiar version of ‘Red Riding Hood‘, … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles
Tagged Charles Perrault, fairy tale, illustration, Red Riding Hood, Wolves
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Jack Zipes on the Sorcerer’s Apprentice
The renowned fairy tale critic Jack Zipes has a new book out on the diverse manifestations of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice motif in folklore and literature, from Lucian and Ovid, through the Grimms, to Harry Potter. There’s a thought-provoking interview with … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Interviews
Tagged Enlightenment, fairy tale, Frankfurt School, Grimms, Harry Potter, Jack Zipes, Lucian, magic, Ovid, sorcerer's apprentice, wizards
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Penda’s Fen: Symposium, BFI, 10 June 2017
We’ve posted a few items here on Folk Horror recently. The classic TV drama Penda’s Fen (1974) is frequently mentioned in this context; I’m embarrassed to admit I’ve never seen it (though have just borrowed the DVD). Sukhdev Sandhu writes about … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged English folklore, Folk Horror, landscape, myth, nationalism, paganism, pastoral horror, Penda's Fen
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Divine Horror: Essays on the Cinematic Battle Between the Sacred and the Diabolical
There’s a new collection announced from McFarland, Divine Horror: Essays on the Cinematic Battle Between the Sacred and the Diabolical, edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. It looks very promising. From Rosemary’s Baby (1968) to The … Continue reading
Victoria Schwab UK Tour, 28 July-5 August 2017
Victoria Schwab writes powerful fantasy, both for young adults and adults (the latter as V.E. Schwab). The Shades of Magic series, with its magical parallel Londons, and the magician Kell and pirate/thief Delilah Bard protagonists, is excellent. And I like … Continue reading
An Interview with Ursula Le Guinn
Fascinating interview with the seminal fantasy and science fiction writer Ursula Le Guinn, author of the children’s YA Earthsea series, the classic SF novels The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, and many others. Le Guin discusses world-building, the ‘soft’ sciences … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged anarchism, anthropology, Fantasy, Feminism, myth, science, SF, Ursula Le Guin, utopia
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CFP: Neo-Gothic
A call for articles on Neo-Gothic for the Phantasma journal, deadine 31 January 2018.
CFP: Gender and Horror edited collection
A call for articles for a proposed edited collection on gender and horror. Deadline end of May. This edited collection aims to re-examine horror in an era of remakes, reboots and re-imaginings. There have been many developments in the horror … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged adaptation, Film, gender, horror, masculinity, race, remakes, TV, women, YA Fiction
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The Myth of Frankenstein and Scientific Hubris
Here’s an excellent essay by Phillip Ball, ‘“Frankenstein” Reflects the Hopes and Fears of Every Scientific Era‘ that challenges the oft-circulated idea that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is directed against the hubris of scientists. Sometimes, this is framed as feminist critique, but … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, Events
Tagged Feminism, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, science, SF
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