Category Archives: Books and Articles

I Saw Three Witches

Posted on 31st October 2015 by Sam George

I saw three witches Asleep in a valley, Their heads in a row, like stones in a flood. Till the moon, creeping upward, Looked white through the valley, And turned them to bushes in bright scarlet bud. (From Walter de … Continue reading →

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Some aural and visual delights to feed your Gothic needs …

Posted on 30th October 2015 by firekrank

Quite a few excellent sources have recently been posted on the OGOM Facebook page. For those of you who are not Facebookers, I thought I would collect them together for your delight, delectation, and education. Firstly there is this useful … Continue reading →

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The Tragic, Forgotten History of Zombies

Posted on 30th October 2015 by firekrank

The Atlantic has published this is an incredibly thoughtful and interested article about the history of zombies, ‘The Tragic, Forgotten History of Zombies’. It’s well researched and effectively argued covering the relationship between George A. Romero’s undead films and the … Continue reading →

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Real-Life Vampires

Posted on 28th October 2015 by firekrank

In the run-up to Halloween there have been quite a few articles published on the subject of things that go bump in the night. This includes quite a few on the subject of real-life vampires: to be clear, these are … Continue reading →

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Digital Horror, an edited collection from Xavier Aldana-Reyes and Linnie Blake

Posted on 27th October 2015 by firekrank

In 2002, I decided to go and watch the re-make of The Ring at my local cinema. The next day I was ill from school and decided to watch a movie to pass the time. This was the time of VCRs and … Continue reading →

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David Punter’s The Gothic Condition (2016)

Posted on 18th October 2015 by firekrank

I’m very excited with the announcement of The Gothic Condition: Terror, History and the Psyche (2016) which will be published next year. It is a collection of fourteen of David Punter’s most recent essays. Punter is one of the most well-known and … Continue reading →

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Xavier Aldana Reyes, Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership

Posted on 16th October 2015 by William the Bloody

This looks to be a very interesting new book from OGOM contributor Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes of Manchester Metropolitan University. In Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership (Routledge), he pursues his research on the corporeal experience … Continue reading →

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After 90 Years: The Story of Serbian Vampire Sava Savanovic

Posted on 16th October 2015 by William the Bloody

This is an early nineteenth-century vampire fiction that I’d not come across before: After 90 Years: The Story of Serbian Vampire Sava Savanovic (1860), by the Serbian Milosan Glivic, and newly translated into English by James Lyon. It appears unusual … Continue reading →

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The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography (2015)

Posted on 15th October 2015 by firekrank

Over on the OGOM facebook page, Stacey Abbott has drawn our attention to the recently published The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography (2015) as an incredibly useful resource (and Dr. Abbott know what she is talking … Continue reading →

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Books and Articles: Secondary reading material for OGOM research

Posted on 15th October 2015 by William the Bloody

I’ve created a new category for posts on the OGOM blog: ‘Books and Articles‘. Tags and categories can be a bit fuzzy and imprecise (not always a bad thing) but this one is meant to help students and scholars of … Continue reading →

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