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Author Archives: William the Bloody
Gail Turley Houston, ‘From Dickens to Dracula’
A thoughtful short essay on Dracula and the presence of the Gothic mode in Victorian fiction generally.
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Dickens, Dracula, The Brontës, Vampires, Victorian Gothic
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The Wild Evolution of Vampires, From Bram Stoker to Dracula Untold
Devon Maloney gives a brisk but useful survey of the changes in the image of the literary and cinematic vampire.
Posted in Resources
Tagged Angel, Anne Rice, Blade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Carmilla, Coppola, Dark Shadows, Dracula, Film, The Lost Boys, True Blood, Twilight, Vampires, Vlad the Impaler
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A guide to ghosts by Jonathan Stroud
A pictorial exploration of the different types of ghosts, ghouls, spectres, and the like.
Adam J Smith, ‘A True Accouneit of Sublime Terror and Paranormal Activity’
In this amusing and insightful blog entry, Dr Adam Smith muses on the eighteenth-century origins of terror and the sublime while watching the film Paranormal Activity 4, via Daniel Defoe and Ann Radcliffe.
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Daniel Defoe, Eighteenth century, Gothic, Gothic novel, horror, Horror Film, sublime
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Bram Stoker: Dracula – audio and video guides
Very useful audio and video guides to Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Roger Luckhurst, editor of the Oxford World’s Classics edition.
Vampires!
Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn of Manchester Metropolitan University gives a talk on the origin of vampires.
History at Stake! The Story Behind Vampire Slaying Kits
We’ve shown a few pictures of vampire slaying kits on this blog before. Here’s a historical account of them from the British Library, where they have one on display as part of the Terror and Wonder exhibition on Gothic.
Neil Gaiman on Fairy Tales Revisited
Of interest to anyone concerned with the contemporary transformation of fairy tales, in YA Gothic and elsewhere, this podcast by the always brilliant and imaginative author Neil Gaiman discusses his new interpretation of the Grimms’ tale ‘Hansel and Gretel’.
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Fairy tales, Grimm brothers, Neil Gaiman, YA Fiction
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Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night
An account of that seminal moment when both Frankenstein and the literary vampire were born; part of BBC4’s season on Gothic. I’ve not watched this yet (not having a TV), but the very erudite Dr Angela Wright of the University … Continue reading
Posted in Resources
Tagged Byron, Frankenstein, Gothic, John Polidori, Mary Shelley, Nineteenth century, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Vampyr, Vampires
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Dale Townshend, ‘An introduction to Ann Radcliffe’
An excellent and illuminating piece by Dr Dale Townshend, Senior Lecturer in Gothic and Romantic Literature at the University of Stirling, on the work of Ann Radcliffe, one of the pioneers of the Gothic novel.
Posted in Books and Articles, Critical thoughts, Resources
Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Eighteenth century, French Revolution, Genre, Gothic, Gothic novel, horror, Romance, Romanticism, terror
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