Author Archives: William the Bloody

About William the Bloody

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

Six Paranormal Teen Romances To Help You Through Your Divorce

Posted on 9th February 2015 by William the Bloody

Now, I love the genre of paranormal romance, but this satire of teen paranormal romances is just so funny–and very acute.

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Michael Dirda reviews five fairy-tale books

Posted on 25th January 2015 by William the Bloody

A review of new books on the fairy tale by Marina Warner and Jack Zipes (including the first translation into English of the first edition of Grimm’s Tales), but also of two books from Princeton University Press’s Oddly Modern Fairy … Continue reading →

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‘The Terror of London’: Spring-heeled Jack and the Victorian Metropolitan Press, 29 January 2015, The Vaults Bar, Dirty Dicks, London

Posted on 25th January 2015 by William the Bloody

Karl Bell gives a talk on Spring-heeled Jack, the monster of Victorian urban legend who was further disseminated by melodramas and penny dreadful, and perhaps fuelled the development of vampire fiction (through Varney and other figures). For more information, the … Continue reading →

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Demon Lovers: Embracing the Monster in Paranormal Romance (slideshow)

Posted on 25th January 2015 by William the Bloody
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Bill Hughes, ‘Demon Lovers: Embracing the Monster in Paranormal Romance’

Posted on 25th January 2015 by William the Bloody

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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monsters: the experimental association for the research of cryptozoology through scholarly theory and practical application

Posted on 25th January 2015 by William the Bloody

MEARCSTAPA–A useful site relating to the discussion of monsters and monstrosity and their cultural significance

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Suzanne Burdon, ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the birth of modern science’

Posted on 25th January 2015 by William the Bloody

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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Owen Williams, ‘A History of British Folk Horror’

Posted on 24th January 2015 by William the Bloody

A useful summary of the genre of Folk Horror in film.

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Tessa Farmer, ‘In Fairyland’, Leeds College of Art, 30 January – 26 February 2015

Posted on 24th January 2015 by William the Bloody

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 →

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wonder.land – a new musical

Posted on 24th January 2015 by William the Bloody

This sounds exciting! Another response to the 150th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandL Damon Albarn’s new musical, wonder.land.

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