Author Archives: William the Bloody

About William the Bloody

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

Let me grab your soul away – Kate Bush and gothic

Posted on 18th October 2014 by William the Bloody

A fascinating article tracing Gothic themes in Kate Bush’s songs and the allusions to Gothic cinema therein.

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The Evolution of the Female Vampire

Posted on 17th October 2014 by William the Bloody

Jamie Spears, who is completing her PhD at the University of Sunderland, has written a fascinating account of the origins of female vampire here.

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Artistic Takes on 9 Classic Fairy Tales

Posted on 17th October 2014 by William the Bloody

Some witty and rather lovely pictorial reinterpretations of classic fairy tales.

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Irish Gothics: Genres, Forms, Modes, and Traditions, 1760-1890

Posted on 17th October 2014 by William the Bloody

New book from Palgrave Macmillan, edited by Christina Morin and Niall Gillespie, on Irish Gothic literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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The Gothic and the Everyday: Living Gothic

Posted on 17th October 2014 by William the Bloody

New book from Palgrave Macmillan, edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Maria Beville, on the relation of Gothic to lived experience.

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Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles 11 by Anne Rice

Posted on 17th October 2014 by William the Bloody

Coming soon (on 30 October 2014, appropriately): the new Anne Rice novel, Prince Lestat. Rice returns at last to the Vampire Chronicles series, which began twenty years ago with the classic Interview With the Vampire.

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Fairytales and Storytelling

Posted on 17th October 2014 by William the Bloody

An exciting season of broadcasts on fairy tales and storytelling on BBC Radio 4

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Penny Dreadful: dismembering and assembling the Victorian Gothic

Posted on 17th October 2014 by William the Bloody

OGOM contributor Conrad Aquilana gives his analysis of the TV series Penny Dreadful.

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What Is a Contemporary Gothic Reading Group?

Posted on 17th October 2014 by William the Bloody

A useful account here from OGOM contributor Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes on his experiences of running the Contemporary Gothic Reading Group at MMU.

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The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire

Posted on 17th October 2014 by William the Bloody

A very interesting article on the relationship between Byron and John Polidori, and the writing of the latter’s seminal vampire tale, The Vampyre.

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