Category Archives: Creative Writing

New Frankenstein poem by Souhardya Roy

Posted on 30th November 2025 by Sam George

I am teaching my undergraduate module Romantic Origins and Gothic Afterlives this semester and Frankenstein week is coming up next. One of the things we are going to be focussing on is the monster’s reading, his self education, what he … Continue reading →

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Night of the Gorgeous Goth Girls–again!!

Posted on 4th November 2018 by William the Bloody

This poem was meant as a light-hearted celebration of all things Gothic, and of scholars and students in the field. I crammed in as many tropes, archetypes, characters, and clichés as I could, torturously straining the rhymes on the rack. … Continue reading →

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Happy Walpurgisnacht!

Posted on 30th April 2018 by William the Bloody

I know I’ve posted this previously, but I made some slight changes and additions–my poem celebrating OGOM and Gothic Studies and general witchiness: Night of the Gorgeous Goth Girls: A Paranormal Romance. (for Sam George, Alison Younger, and their students … Continue reading →

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Lincoln Book Festival has a Gothic theme

Posted on 21st September 2017 by firekrank

In a previous post, I mentioned that the theme for this year’s Lincoln Book Festival (25th-30th September 2017) is the Gothic. This year they had a Flash Fiction Competition which I entered. Much to my surprise (I’m not a creative … Continue reading →

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Night of the Gorgeous Goth Girls: A Paranormal Romance

Posted on 13th March 2016 by William the Bloody

I’ve done a little retouching and extending to my poem, which envisages a comic Walpurgisnacht scene, with witches wildly celebrating their creativity. It’s a homage to lecturers and students of the Gothic and fantastic. Not sure if it quite works; … Continue reading →

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Spectral Visions: The Creative Journey

Posted on 28th October 2015 by William the Bloody

The Spectral Visions group of Gothic researchers at the University of Sunderland have started a new blog to document their creative activities. Dr Alison Younger and Jenah Colledge very kindly asked me to contribute, so I’ve written a frivolous Walpurgisnacht … Continue reading →

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The Emergence of the Sympathetic or Reluctant Vampire in Twentieth-Century Culture

Posted on 13th October 2015 by Sam George

Following my post on the sympathetic witch I should add that I am thinking of Dark Shadows (1966-1971) as being the vampire equivalent of Bewitched (1964-72) and Barnabas Collins as the wonderfully reluctant vampire. Here’s the classic moment when Barnabas Collins is … Continue reading →

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Ivan Phillips, ‘The Lycanthrope;

Posted on 28th August 2015 by William the Bloody

Ivan Phillips, of the University of Hertfordshire’s School of Creative Arts, has been involved with the OGOM Project from the beginning. He has written a powerful poem about werewolves here: The Lycanthrope Hypocrisy is woven of a fine small thread, … Continue reading →

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