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Author Archives: Sam George
Gothic Yuletide: A Journey Through Dark Christmas Folklore, Sat 9th December
Join me for a dark journey through Christmas folklore and seasonal mythology at Guy’s Hospital Chapel, Saturday the 9th December 2023 at 3:00. Booking: Tickets £12 including a delightful gin cocktail and 20% donation to Guy’s and St Thomas. This … Continue reading
Posted in Events, OGOM Research
Tagged Christmas, European folklore, Folklore, Gothic, Krampus, London Month of the Dead, Winter, yuletide
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Halloween Fairies
Halloween is supposedly a time when the veil between our world and the shadow world is extremely thin. A time when you are more likely to hear stories of encounters between humans and fairies. Fairies are said to reside in … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM Research
Tagged Celtic folklore, fairies, Halloween, Samhain, spirits, The Dead
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Hellebore: The Darkness Issue
As the ancient festival of Samhain approaches and Halloween events are still underway, I’d like to draw your attention to HELLEBORE, a publication founded in 2019 by writer and editor Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, with art direction by Nathaniel Hébert. It is … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM News, OGOM Research, Publications
Tagged English vampires, Folk Horror, Folklore, Hellebore, vampire
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OGOM Halloween Event Diary
The spooky season is the busiest time of the year for gothic scholars; here are some of the Halloween events that you can catch up with the OGOM crew at between now and 31st October. Friday 20th October: OGOM: In … Continue reading
Posted in Events, OGOM News
Tagged events, fairies, Halloween, Monsters, Vampires, Werewolves
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Writing the Occult: Vampires, 28th October, 2023 Online
I am thrilled to be part of ‘Writing the Occult: Vampires’; it is taking place online on Saturday 28th October, 1pm-9pm (UK time). It features a wide range of speakers and sessions for writers and readers in the genre including: … Continue reading
Posted in Events, OGOM Research
Tagged Black vampyres, Folklore, Jewelle Gomez, lesbian fiction, occult, Sam George, vampire fiction, Vampires, writing vampire fiction
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Sam George, The Dark Origin of the Fairy, at London Month of the Dead, 29th October, 2023
London Month of the Dead, is an annual festival of arts to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and the city; it is now a decade old. This year’s grand calendar boasts a haunting array of over … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged cemeteries, Dark Fairies, death, Folklore, Gothic fairies, London Month of the Dead
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In the Company of Wolves: Werewolves, Wolves and Wild Children – out in paperback August 2023
We are delighted to announce that the OGOM publication In the Company of Wolves is out in paperback from MUP this month priced at £20.00. The book connects together innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance … Continue reading
Haunted Landscapes Conference: Sam George Keynote ‘This Spectred Isle: Werewolves and the English Eerie in Contemporary UK Myth’, 6 July 2023
Delighted to reveal that I have been invited to give a keynote at Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature, and Global Environments Conference: Falmouth University, 4-6 July 2023. The event is produced in Association with Falmouth University’s Dark Economies Research Group. I … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Events
Tagged eerie, haunted landscapes, myth, UK, weird, werewolf, werewolf sightings, wolf
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Lost Hearts: A Gothic Love Story
The poet Shelley was drawn to the young Mary Godwin due to her melancholy habit of reading on her mother’s grave; the gothic site of their courtship; it’s said to be where they consummated their passion…. When Shelley died in … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM Research
Tagged Gothic, grave, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Valentines
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Breaking Through to Faery
Thank you to everyone who attended our Breaking Through to Faery: Re-enchantment and the Gothic Folklore of Fungi event on 19th November. We had 177 bookings and the event sold out after just a few days of the tickets being released! … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged botany, crafts, enchantment, fairies, Folklore, fungi, Gothic
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