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Author Archives: William the Bloody
CFP: Brave New Worlds: The Dystopia in Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Newcastle University, 29 April 2015
Not strictly Gothic, but there’s space to contribute something to this conference, I think: Brave New Worlds: The Dystopia in Modern and Contemporary Fiction The modes of the Gothic and the dystopian often interact, especially in recent YA fiction, where, … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), Conferences
Tagged body, CFP, dystopia, gender, Genre, Gothic, politics, posthumanism, SF
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The 10 Weirdest Horror Movies of All Time
A series of short summaries and excerpts from some astonishingly, bizarrely, silly horror films.
Review of Screening Twilight: Critical Approaches to a Cinematic Phenomenon
Dr Rebecca Williams, Lecturer in Communication, Culture and Media Studies at the University of South Wales and a contributor to the OGOM special issue of Gothic Studies, reviews an interesting new collection of essays on the Twilight films: Screening Twilight: … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Publications, Reviews
Tagged adaptation, Film, Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, Vampires
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
A short review and trailer for Ana Lily Amirpou’s new vampire film from Iran, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. This looks exciting, intelligent, and stylish.
Neil McRobert, ‘The Current State of Experimental Gothic: Part One’
A very interesting blog post by Neil McRobert, the first part of a discussion on postmodern experimental Gothic fiction (of which Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves (2000) is exemplary).
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Genre, Gothic, Gothic novel, House of Leaves, postmodernism
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Amanda Hopkins, ‘The Medieval Werewolf’
A fascinating and useful blog article on the literary representations of werewolves in medieval romance by Dr Amanda Hopkins at the University of Warwick.
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Animals, medieval literature, Romance, Werewolves, Wolves
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Review: The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature
A review by Donna Mitchell of what looks to be an important collection of essays on the Gothic aspects of the fairy tale in connection with the adaptation of such tales in YA literature: The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young … Continue reading
Posthuman Gothic (Published Collection) – Call for Chapters
A call for contributions to a volume on Post-human Gothic. The proposed volume seeks to contribute a new angle to this discussion by bringing together a number of articles on the intersections of the Gothic and the posthuman in literature, … Continue reading
Grimm brothers’ fairytales have blood and horror restored in new translation
A review by Alison Flood of Jack Zipes’s new translation of the first edition of the Grimms’ tales (never before done into English), without the censorship and Christianising of later editions. I, for one, am desperate to get a copy!
Posted in Books and Articles, Publications
Tagged Fairy tales, Folklore, Grimm brothers
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“There is no escape.” Horace Walpole and the terrifying rise of the Gothic
Nick Groom on the trajectory from Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764) to present-day Gothic culture. The rise of the Gothic novel to horror and SF film and Goth music and fashion, with a glance at architecture, are all … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged architecture, Film, Goth subculture, Gothic, Gothic novel, Horace Walpole, Horror Film, SF, Victorian Gothic
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