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Author Archives: Sam George
CFP: Daughter of Fangdom:A Conference on Women and the Television Vampire
Deadline for this is pending…..looking forward to seeing people in April
Posted in CFP (Conferences), Conferences
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Six people given a vampire burial in Poland
Six people given a vampire’s burial over 200 years ago have been discovered in a Polish graveyard, some barricaded in the earth with sharp sickles, some weighted by stones on their necks, possibly to keep them from chewing through their … Continue reading
Monstrous Hounds and the Phantasmagoria: OGOM’s Lycanthropic Lantern-of-fear!!!
Wolves and werewolves were a very important part of magic lantern iconography for over 200 years and featured as part of Robertson’s famous Phantasmagoria in Paris. At OGOM’s ‘Company of Wolves’ David Annwyn Jones will offer a film on monstrous hounds … Continue reading
OGOM Company of Wolves CFP – Beyond excited to announce this!
Conference, University of Hertfordshire, Sept 3rd-5th 2015: Call for Papers and Panels OGOM: ‘The Company of Wolves’: Sociality, Animality, and Subjectivity in Literary and Cultural Narratives—Werewolves, Shapeshifters, and Feral Humans Wolves have long been the archetypal enemy of human company, … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), Conferences, OGOM News, OGOM: The Company of Wolves
Tagged Angela Carter, Animals, Anne Rice, Bram Stoker, Catherine Spooner, CFP, Children's literature, Christopher Frayling, Conference, Fairy tales, feral children, Film, Folklore, gender, Genre, Gothic, Greg Duncan, Grimm brothers, Language, Maggie Stiefvater, Marcus Sedgwick, myth, nature, Neil Jordan, Paranormal romance, Perrault, race, Romance, sexuality, Shapeshifters, Stacey Abbott, TV, Werewolves, Wolves, YA Fiction
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Open Graves Evening in St Albans: Post Millennial Happy Gothic!
Thanks to everyone who came down to the OGOM Gothic Writing Evening on Friday 7th in St Albans with myself, Catherine Spooner and Matt Beresford. This was our first contribution to the St Albans Literary Festival and as you can … Continue reading
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Is Twilight the wish-fulfillment fantasy to end all others?
‘Twilight of the Gothic’ with Dr Joseph Crawford was an extraordinary prelude to our MA studies on the vampire and bridged the gap perfectly between vampire studies and YA fiction (my two modules and key areas of research). The talk … Continue reading
I Wonder: BBC Timeline of Gothic Fiction
Brilliant Timeline of Gothic Fiction with some pleasing visuals and useful links. Just in time for Halloween (Dr Catherine Spooner, contributor to OGOM, was the BBC’s consultant)
The World’s Creepiest Museums: A Cabinet of Curiosities
Where are you going to find shrunken heads, ventriloquist dummies, giant parasites, automatons, rooms full of trolls, the castrating instruments of Benedictine monks, the penises of 93 different species and more? Enjoy the world’s creepiest museums A brilliant post – … Continue reading
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Halloween Werewolf: Company of Wolves
Something from the Wellcome to get you in the mood for the much awaited and awesome OGOM Company of Wolves conference. CFP posted shortly. Watch this space at Halloween!!! Wellcome Collection Halloween Werewolf