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Author Archives: Sam George
Gothic Blooms: The Dark Poetics of Botany
It is quite hard to combine my two research strands on botany and the gothic but I do like to experiment with gothic blooms in my garden. I grew this red chocolate sunflower as a dark counterpart to the sunshine yellow variety! … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM News, OGOM Research
Tagged gothic gardening, poetic botany, Sam George Botany
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Blood and Mermaids: Limerick 2016
If our bodies are books of blood, then they can be read; we invite such readings and contributions where blood is the signifier. We are also interested in the analyses and representation of the literal presence of blood in our … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM: Books of Blood
Tagged blood, gothic Ireland, John Rimmer, Limerick, mermaids, Tracy Fahey, Wellcome Trust
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Monstrous Blooms: The Amazing Corpse Lily
It is not often that the two strands of my research, botany and the undead, come together and I get very, very excited when they do (it is even less frequent that botany makes front page news). Enter the Corpse … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM Research
Tagged botany, monstrous flowers, New York Botanical Gardens, Sam George Botany
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The Wolf: BBC Radio 4 Natural Histories Programme
Brett Westwood meets a wolf and considers the role of the wolf in our culture in this BBC Radio 4 Natural Histories programme which also features OGOM Company of Wolves plenary Garry Marvin and the UK Wolf Trust which we … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM: The Company of Wolves
Tagged Company of Wolves, Open Graves Open Minds
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‘Some Curious Disquiet’: Troubled Teens Turn Vampire in St Albans @AbbeyTheatreStA
I was at the Abbey Theatre in St Albans last week with a friend to see a play entitled ‘A Vampire Story’ written by Moira Buffini and directed by Phillip Reardon. Buffini has collaborated with Damon Albarn and this play was … Continue reading
How Old Are Vampires Really? Body of 500 Year Old Vampire Inspires New Debate
The body of a five hundred year old ‘vampire’ will go on display in an ancient cemetery in the town of Kamien Pomorski this month. The vampire corpse was discovered two years ago in Northern Poland and is currently being … Continue reading
Travels in Transylvania: Bram Stoker’s Ambiguous Legacy
Last week I was in Romania at the University of Timisoara for the Beliefs and Behaviours in Education and Culture conference. My keynote was on the representation of Romanian folklore in British and Irish fictions of the undead. Stoker never travelled … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Critical thoughts, OGOM News, Reviews
Tagged Dracula, Folklore, Romania
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Folk Horror: Blood Sucking Vampire Goat Terrorises Village
Following my recent post on folk horror and the appearance earlier this year of the Hull Werewolf Old Stinker, who sparked a folk panic in the UK, stories are breaking that a legendary Chupacabra has been caught and killed in the Ukraine … Continue reading
Posted in News, OGOM News, Reviews
Tagged chupacabra, Folk Horror, Folklore, vampiric goat
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Folk Horror for Beginners
I am increasingly intrigued by ‘folk horror’ and it was one of the sections in the British Library’s Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination exhibition that I spent longest pondering over. The BFI’s recent article is a must read therefore, … Continue reading
Generation Dead: Students Respond to YA Gothics
My level six undergraduate module Generation Dead: Young Adult Fiction and the Gothic has featured heavily on the blog since its beginnings in 2014. The module was inspired by my research for OGOM and the students have been engaging with the … Continue reading