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Category Archives: OGOM News
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
Vampire graves unearthed in Bulgaria – the 7th such site in two years!
Archaeologists have unearthed a vampire burial site in Bulgaria. These medieval corpses were found to have been buried with a metal stake through their hearts to prevent them from returning to menace the living. This is the 7th vampire grave … Continue reading
Marcus Sedgwick: where I write
A fascinating photographic exploration of the places that have inspired Marcus Sedgwick’s new novel, The Ghosts of Heaven. Marcus is an award-winning novelist whose work has been a focus and inspiration for the OGOM Project and who has also generously … Continue reading
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Tagged Fantasy, Folklore, Marcus Sedgwick, Space, YA Fiction
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‘The Twilight of the Gothic’: OGOM Open Discussion 29th October, University of Hertfordshire
In celebration of the beginning of the 4th year of ‘Reading the Vampire: Science, Sexuality Alterity and Modern Culture’ we have Dr Joseph Crawford speaking on The Twilight of the Gothic? on Wednesday 29th October (Literature and Creative Writing Research Seminar … Continue reading
Open Graves, Open Minds: Gothic Writing Evening 7th Nov, St Albans Literary Festival
Excited to report that I will be joined by Dr Catherine Spooner, leading spokesperson for the contemporary Gothic, and Matt Beresford, writer, archaeologist and folklorist for a Gothic Writing Evening to mark the St Albans Literary Festival on 7th November, … Continue reading
Vampires Make it Into Academia – Wall Street Journal video of Open Graves, Open Minds back in the day..
I have just realised that the Open Graves, Open Minds project is five years old today!!! We started to plan the first OGOM conference at this time in 2009 and the first conference was in March 2010. HAPPY BIRTHDAY OGOM!!! … Continue reading
In Oxford with a Vampire Slaying Kit
Wonderful things are happening behind the scenes at OGOM. I am compelled to write about the vampire slaying kit I collected in Oxford. It dates back to around the time of British vampirologist Montague Summers (1880-1948) and has been in … Continue reading
OGOM: ‘Company of Wolves’, conference July 2015
Going to be blogging too about the fabulous ‘Company of Wolves’ event OGOM is presenting in July of this year. I am holding off posting the full CFP for a few days until I have heard from the wonderful duo … Continue reading
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