Category Archives: Events

OGOM: Spectral St Albans Hallowe’en Tour – booking now

Posted on 7th October 2018 by Sam George

OGOM is proud to announce a special Supernatural St Albans Hallowe’en Tour. We will be exploring the magical and spectral history of Hertfordshire’s finest gothic city. The event is informed by the research we carried out for our ‘Urban Weird‘ … Continue reading →

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CFP: Reading Group on Animals and Mythical Creatures

Posted on 23rd September 2018 by Sam George

The Myth Reading Group at the University of Essex Centre for Myth Studies have announced a CFP on Animals and Mythical Creatures for the Autumn Term 2018. They invite proposals from anyone who is interested in any aspect of mythological … Continue reading →

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Frankenstein Vs Dracula: Battle of the Books

Posted on 10th September 2018 by Sam George

Thanks to all those who attended the Monsters We Deserve: Dracula Vs Frankenstein events with myself and Marcus Sedgwick at Edinburgh International Book Festival  and at Conway Hall in London. Frankenstein won both rounds but Marcus and I drew 1-1 in … Continue reading →

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My Favourite Werewolf Film: Hasting LitFest

Posted on 23rd August 2018 by firekrank

Next weekend (30th August – 2nd September), I will be a guest speaker at Hastings LitFest. On Saturday 1st September, I’ll be introducing my favourite werewolf film in the world Ginger Snaps (2000) and then fielding a Q and A session afterwards. It … Continue reading →

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The Monsters We Deserve Tuesday 4th September

Posted on 10th August 2018 by Sam George

To celebrate the publication of The Monsters We Deserve, a fascinating reappraisal of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,  Marcus Sedgwick and Dr Sam George go head to head in the gothic battle of the books  Frankenstein versus Dracula Chaired by writer, editor and translator Daniel Hahn. Venue: Conway … Continue reading →

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Gothic Hybridity: Ambiguous Creatures and Ambivalent Morals

Posted on 28th July 2018 by Sam George

The IGA conference 2018  gets underway in Manchester, UK, in just 3 days time. It’s a really important and exciting date in the goth calendar. The conference runs from July 31st to 3rd August.  You can view the full programme here. … Continue reading →

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Night of the Literary Living Dead 26th August

Posted on 3rd July 2018 by Sam George

It’s time to break the news of a very exciting battle of the books event that I (Dr Sam George)  am doing on 26th August at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in the Spiegeltent with gothtastic writer Marcus Sedgwick. It’s … Continue reading →

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The Corpse Flower: One of Nature’s Monsters

Posted on 28th June 2018 by Sam George

This magnificent Corpse Flower is in bloom at New York Botanical Gardens. AMORPHOPHALLUS TITANUM smells of rotting flesh and resembles an enormous phallus. Proof that truth really is stranger than fiction. I see it as a symbol of my research appearing as … Continue reading →

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Animals and Us

Posted on 24th June 2018 by Sam George

John Berger’s groundbreaking essay ‘Why Look at Animals’ (1980; Penguin, Great Ideas, 2009) has inspired a new exhibition ‘Animals and Us’ at the Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate. Berger argued that the ancient relationship between man and nature had been severed … Continue reading →

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YA Gothic Fiction: CFP (edited collection) and NYALitFest (event)

Posted on 27th May 2018 by William the Bloody

Research into Young Adult Gothic fiction forms a core part of the OGOM Project, and feeds into the associated teaching that Dr Sam George has been conducting for some years now at the University of Hertfordshire (see here). So these … Continue reading →

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