Author Archives: William the Bloody

About William the Bloody

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

Darkness and Light: Exploring the Gothic exhibition, John Rylands Library, Manchester

Being in the centre of Manchester for the first time in months, I thought I’d drop in to the beautiful Victorian neo-Gothic John Rylands Library and see the Darkness and Light: Exploring the Gothic exhibition. It’s very, very good, with … Continue reading

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UPDATE: Extended Deadline: Monstrous Messengers 17 Aug. 2015

Chapters still required for this collection of essays on ‘supernatural figures in children’s picture books and early readers’, edited by Leslie Ormandy. For this collection, three more papers from any discipline are welcome; however, advantaged are those focusing on a … Continue reading

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Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland: An on-line annotated edition

This looks a fantastic resource for scholars, students, and anyone interested in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: An online annotated edition featuring twelve Lewis Carroll scholars taking one chapter each, plus illustrations and remixes from the classic 1865 and … Continue reading

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CFP: “Expanding the Scope of Horror”

A Call for Articles for a special journal issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities exploring new approaches to the study of horror. The proposed set of essays and book reviews would have as its main objective to offer a new practical model … Continue reading

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Company of Wolves Programme: latest version

We’ve made a slight change to the Conference Programme–please take a look here. Further updates on Fees, and Travel and Accommodation will be appearing very soon, so keep an eye on alerts and Tweets, etc.

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Company of Wolves: Conference Programme v2

We have revised the Company of Wolves conference programme to take into account the requirements of some of our delegates, so please have a look at the new version.

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Company of Wolves: Conference Timetable

As well as the full Conference Programme (which can also be downloaded in PDF format), we have a page with a handily abbreviated Conference Timetable (again, with a PDF version). These pages are only provisional but we hope they give … Continue reading

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Company of Wolves: Conference Programme

The provisional programme for the Company of Wolves conference is now up on this website: select ‘Conference Programme‘ from the ‘Company of Wolves’ menu (or click on the link). Most of the abstracts are now viewable from the ‘Session Speakers … Continue reading

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Spectral Visions: Grim Fairy Tales

From the Spectral Visions Press at the University of Sunderland comes this new anthology of Gothic reworkings of fairy tales, edited by Colin Younger, designed by David Newton, introduced by Ian Rowan, and with fabulous illustrations by Katie Loyd. Oh, … Continue reading

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CFP: ‘Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil’, University of Sheffield, 24-27 June, 2016

I’m very much looking forward to this conference, ‘Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil’, celebrating that moment of the Shelley-Byron circle when both Frankenstein and the literary vampire were born ‘The year without a summer’, as 1816 was known, was … Continue reading

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