Owen Williams, ‘A History of British Folk Horror’

Posted on 24th January 2015 by William the Bloody

A useful summary of the genre of Folk Horror in film.

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Tessa Farmer, ‘In Fairyland’, Leeds College of Art, 30 January – 26 February 2015

Posted on 24th January 2015 by William the Bloody

This exhibition at Leeds College of Art looks enticing:

The Cottingley Fairies fly home in the forthcoming exhibition ‘In Fairyland’.

It is now almost a century since the infamous fairy photographs were taken in a small village a few miles outside Leeds. In 1917 and 1920, Elsie Wright and her cousin Frances Griffiths took photographs of what appeared to be fairies frolicking by the local beck. These photographs captured the imagination of writer Arthur Conan Doyle whose father, Charles, and uncle, Richard, illustrated fairies a generation before. Taking its title from Richard Doyle’s ‘In Fairyland’ (1870), this exhibition explores the medium of the fairy and, reciprocally, the fairy as medium.

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wonder.land – a new musical

Posted on 24th January 2015 by William the Bloody

This sounds exciting! Another response to the 150th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandL Damon Albarn’s new musical, wonder.land.

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Maria Popova, ‘The Best Illustrations from 150 Years of Alice in Wonderland’

Posted on 24th January 2015 by William the Bloody

There is some astonishing and beautiful artwork here in this account of the illustration of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, many of which I’d not seen before. I hadn’t known Tove Jannson had illustrated the work, and hers are especially lovely.

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Spine-chillers and suspense: A timeline of Gothic fiction

Posted on 24th January 2015 by William the Bloody

This is a concise but excellent timeline of the origins and development of Gothic fiction by the OGOM collaborator Catherine Spooner. It’s a very useful resource for anyone interested in Gothic culture, and we’ve also added it in the Related Links section on the right-hand side of the site as an easily accessible permanent resource.

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UH Gothic Reading Group: First Session of 2015 – ‘In the Flesh’

Posted on 24th January 2015 by Sam George

The UH Gothic Reading Group is starting again in early Feb…why read about it when you can be there in the flesh! Find out how below……

First Session of 2015 – ‘In the Flesh’.

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Suzie Grogan, ‘From stanza to screen: How a Keats poem is inspiring 21st-century film makers’

Posted on 22nd January 2015 by William the Bloody

An interesting short piece on contemporary film versions of Keats’s Gothic-styled demon lover poem, ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci‘:

La Belle Dame taps into the current focus on the supernatural in young adult fiction, and offers countless opportunities for interpretation in relation to gender roles and relationships. But surely it is more than that? To return to the original question; what can the romantic imagination, and specifically John Keats, offer to the twenty-first century psyche?

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Nominations sought: The Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize

Posted on 20th January 2015 by William the Bloody

In 2011, as a memorial to its founding President Dr Allan Lloyd Smith (1945-2010), the International Gothic Association established a prize to be awarded for a scholarly publication considered to have advanced the field of Gothic studies significantly. For the 2015 incarnation of the award we are delighted to announce that there will be two Prizes of £100 each: one for a standout monograph published on the Gothic over the last two years, and another for an edited collection published during the same period.

We are now accepting nominations for either category. For the current round of nominations, books published over the last 24 months (i.e., from January 1st 2013 to December 31st 2014) are eligible. The deadline for nominations for the prize is 1st February 2015 and you may nominate one book for each category.

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CFP: Locating Fantastika: An Interdisciplinary Conference, 8 July 2015, Lancaster University

Posted on 16th January 2015 by William the Bloody

An exciting conference at Lancaster in July, embracing all aspects and genres of fantastic narrative.

“Fantastika”, coined by John Clute, is an umbrella term which incorporates the genres of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, but can also include alternative histories, steampunk, young adult fiction, or any other imaginative space. The theme for 2015, “Locating Fantastika,” explores all areas of space, setting, and locations, either in the fictional world of fantastika or in fantastical networks with the real world.

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Podcast: A.S. Byatt discusses the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm

Posted on 16th January 2015 by William the Bloody

Novelists A. S. Byatt and Lawrence Norfolk venture together into Germany’s dark woods to discover witches, goblins, lost children and treasure.

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