Author Archives: William the Bloody

About William the Bloody

Cat lover. 18C scholar on the dialogue and novel. Co-convenor OGOM Project

Tessa Farmer’s fairy taxidermy

Posted on 18th June 2016 by William the Bloody

A piece on Tessa Farmer’s grotesquely Gothic tableaux of some very unpleasant fairies, constructed from insect parts. I find this fascinating and darkly humorous–but very creepy!

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CFP: Damsels in Redress: Women in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Reimaginings, Queen’s University Belfast, 7-8 April 2017

Posted on 18th June 2016 by William the Bloody

This looks a great conference, with themes very much at the heart of OGOM research (I’m particularly interested in contemporary reworkings of fairy tale, and Sam’s modules explore this too): Call for papers for a conference at Queen’s University Belfast: … Continue reading →

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Fairy tales and contemporary fiction

Posted on 17th June 2016 by William the Bloody

An interesting article, ‘Follow the breadcrumbs: why fairytales are magic for modern fiction‘, by Lincoln Michel (author of Upright Beasts). It discusses  from a writer’s perspective the opportunities that modern reworkings of fairy tales have as an alternative to straightforward … Continue reading →

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The Future of Gothic Studies, Centre for the History of the Gothic, University of Sheffield, 8 July 2016

Posted on 17th June 2016 by William the Bloody

This networking day at the University of Sheffield’s Centre for the History of the Gothic looks well worth attending: The Centre for the History of the Gothic is pleased to host a networking day for postgraduates, early career researchers, and academic … Continue reading →

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The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies

Posted on 15th June 2016 by William the Bloody

The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies have moved to a new–and fine-looking–website here. I’ve amended the link in the Related Links column that appears on the Blog and Resources page to lead to the new site.

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David Richter, The Progress of Romance

Posted on 13th June 2016 by William the Bloody

I’m reading David Richter’s The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel–one of the best books on literary theory I’ve read for a long while. It’s an undogmatic approach to the way that literature, and especially literary genres, … Continue reading →

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Essays on Fantastic Fiction and SF

Posted on 11th June 2016 by William the Bloody

This is a very useful web page, with short reviews of books of essays on science fiction and other fantastic literature, covering such fields as steampunk and Afrofuturism, and by such authors as Neil Gaiman, Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler, … Continue reading →

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Franziska Kohlt, ‘Alice in the asylum: Wonderland and the real mad tea parties of the Victorians’

Posted on 11th June 2016 by William the Bloody

An excellent article here by Franziska Kohlt, ‘Alice in the asylum: Wonderland and the real mad tea parties of the Victorians‘. Franziska looks at the Alice books and the theme of madness in the context of both the recent Disney … Continue reading →

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Review: Therapy for a Vampire

Posted on 10th June 2016 by William the Bloody

This new Austrian vampire film, Therapy for a Vampire looks well worth seeing–a subtle comedy with themes of psychoanalysis and the representation of women. A thoughtful review here (thanks to Stacey Abbott for sharing this).

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CFP: Edited collection on iZombie

Posted on 9th June 2016 by William the Bloody

I’ve not seen the TV series iZombie (nor the graphic novel on which it is based) but I’ve heard very enthusiastic reports on this new manifestation of the sympathetic zombie (of which one of our favourites, Daniel Waters’s Generation Dead … Continue reading →

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