Author Archives: William the Bloody

About William the Bloody

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

Before Bram: a timeline of vampire literature

Posted on 16th October 2015 by William the Bloody

More useful information from Roger Luckhurst on the origins of the vampire. This timeline illustrates the ethnographic and literary precursors of Stoker’s Dracula.

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Roger Luckhurst, ‘The birth of the vampyre: Dracula and mythology in Early Modern Europe’

Posted on 16th October 2015 by William the Bloody

An extract here from Roger Luckhurst’s excellent introduction to the OUP World’s Classics edition of Dracula. The notion that the vampire is universal and archetypal is debunked, and its origins shown to lie in the Enlightenment response to folkloric panics … Continue reading →

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Maria Cohut, ‘Review: Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright’

Posted on 16th October 2015 by William the Bloody

Chris Riddel’s Goth Girl books are great fun, appealing to both young people and older people versed in literary knowledge. They’re wittily, pleasurably intertextual. Maria Cohut of the University of Warwick has written an enticing review here on the latest … Continue reading →

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An Exploration of Eighteenth Century and Victorian Gothic Literature Displays With the Exhibition Curators

Posted on 16th October 2015 by William the Bloody

If you not yet seen the fabulous Darkness and Light Exhibition on Gothic culture at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, do go if you can. But why not go along to this event on 23 October (15.00-16.00) and see … Continue reading →

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Various CFPs: October 2015

Posted on 16th October 2015 by William the Bloody

There are a few CFPs for conferences and publications nearing their deadline, so I’m bundling them together on this page: Domestic Entanglements in the Works of Joss Whedon (Edited Collection) (Deadline: 1 Nov 2015) Call for Papers Haunted Europe: Continental … Continue reading →

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Xavier Aldana Reyes, Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership

Posted on 16th October 2015 by William the Bloody

This looks to be a very interesting new book from OGOM contributor Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes of Manchester Metropolitan University. In Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership (Routledge), he pursues his research on the corporeal experience … Continue reading →

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After 90 Years: The Story of Serbian Vampire Sava Savanovic

Posted on 16th October 2015 by William the Bloody

This is an early nineteenth-century vampire fiction that I’d not come across before: After 90 Years: The Story of Serbian Vampire Sava Savanovic (1860), by the Serbian Milosan Glivic, and newly translated into English by James Lyon. It appears unusual … Continue reading →

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CFP: Children in Popular Culture

Posted on 15th October 2015 by William the Bloody

This CFP for articles on Children in Popular Culture may be of interest to anyone doing research in children’s or YA literature; not much time left, I’m afraid! Red Feather Journal (www.redfeatherjournal.org), an online, peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary journal, has … Continue reading →

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Tracy Hastie, ‘Leather Clad Heroines and the Monster Within’

Posted on 15th October 2015 by William the Bloody

An excellent blog post by Tracy Hastie on the ambivalent sexual politics of the female protagonist of paranormal romance/urban fantasy.

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Witchy Vampires

Posted on 15th October 2015 by William the Bloody

This is a little light, but fun, and a starting point for those who want to explore the folkloric vampire/witch figure from outside the usual Western literary paradigms. (Though calling these kindred bloodsuckers ‘vampire’ and universalising them thus opens up … Continue reading →

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