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Author Archives: William the Bloody
Bill Hughes, ‘Demon Lovers: Embracing the Monster in Paranormal Romance’
This is rather late, I know, but I just wanted to give a brief account of the Halloween 2014 Spectral Visions event at the University of Sunderland, where I was honoured to be invited to give a keynote talk on … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Rice, Daniel Waters, demon lovers, fairies, Generation Dead, Paranormal romance, Vampires, Werewolves, YA Fiction, Zombies
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monsters: the experimental association for the research of cryptozoology through scholarly theory and practical application
MEARCSTAPA–A useful site relating to the discussion of monsters and monstrosity and their cultural significance
Suzanne Burdon, ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the birth of modern science’
A stimulating discussion of the attitude towards science in Mary Shelley’s Fankenstein: Mary Shelley wrote ‘Frankenstein’ when she was just 18, and it is often read as a gothic horror story and prophetic warning about the dangers of taking science … Continue reading
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Tagged Frankenstein, Gothic, Gothic novel, Mary Shelley, science
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Owen Williams, ‘A History of British Folk Horror’
A useful summary of the genre of Folk Horror in film.
Tessa Farmer, ‘In Fairyland’, Leeds College of Art, 30 January – 26 February 2015
This exhibition at Leeds College of Art looks enticing: The Cottingley Fairies fly home in the forthcoming exhibition ‘In Fairyland’. It is now almost a century since the infamous fairy photographs were taken in a small village a few miles … Continue reading
wonder.land – a new musical
This sounds exciting! Another response to the 150th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandL Damon Albarn’s new musical, wonder.land.
Maria Popova, ‘The Best Illustrations from 150 Years of Alice in Wonderland’
There is some astonishing and beautiful artwork here in this account of the illustration of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, many of which I’d not seen before. I hadn’t known Tove Jannson had illustrated the work, and hers are especially lovely.
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Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Children's literature, illustration
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Spine-chillers and suspense: A timeline of Gothic fiction
This is a concise but excellent timeline of the origins and development of Gothic fiction by the OGOM collaborator Catherine Spooner. It’s a very useful resource for anyone interested in Gothic culture, and we’ve also added it in the Related … Continue reading
Suzie Grogan, ‘From stanza to screen: How a Keats poem is inspiring 21st-century film makers’
An interesting short piece on contemporary film versions of Keats’s Gothic-styled demon lover poem, ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci‘: La Belle Dame taps into the current focus on the supernatural in young adult fiction, and offers countless opportunities for interpretation … Continue reading
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Tagged demon lovers, Keats, Paranormal romance, Romanticism, YA Fiction
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Nominations sought: The Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize
In 2011, as a memorial to its founding President Dr Allan Lloyd Smith (1945-2010), the International Gothic Association established a prize to be awarded for a scholarly publication considered to have advanced the field of Gothic studies significantly. For the … Continue reading