Category Archives: OGOM News

Monstrous Hounds and the Phantasmagoria: OGOM’s Lycanthropic Lantern-of-fear!!!

Posted on 21st November 2014 by Sam George

Wolves and werewolves were a very important part of magic lantern iconography for over 200 years and featured as part of Robertson’s famous Phantasmagoria in Paris. At OGOM’s ‘Company of Wolves’ David Annwyn Jones will offer a film on monstrous hounds … Continue reading →

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OGOM Company of Wolves CFP – Beyond excited to announce this!

Posted on 19th November 2014 by Sam George

Conference, University of Hertfordshire, Sept 3rd-5th 2015: Call for Papers and Panels OGOM: ‘The Company of Wolves’: Sociality, Animality, and Subjectivity in Literary and Cultural Narratives—Werewolves, Shapeshifters, and Feral Humans Wolves have long been the archetypal enemy of human company, … Continue reading →

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Open Graves Evening in St Albans: Post Millennial Happy Gothic!

Posted on 13th November 2014 by Sam George

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?

Posted on 2nd November 2014 by Sam George

‘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 →

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Vampire graves unearthed in Bulgaria – the 7th such site in two years!

Posted on 11th October 2014 by Sam George

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 →

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Marcus Sedgwick: where I write

Posted on 7th October 2014 by William the Bloody

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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‘The Twilight of the Gothic’: OGOM Open Discussion 29th October, University of Hertfordshire

Posted on 4th October 2014 by Sam George

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 →

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Open Graves, Open Minds: Gothic Writing Evening 7th Nov, St Albans Literary Festival

Posted on 1st October 2014 by Sam George

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 →

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Vampires Make it Into Academia – Wall Street Journal video of Open Graves, Open Minds back in the day..

Posted on 30th September 2014 by Sam George

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 →

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In Oxford with a Vampire Slaying Kit

Posted on 27th September 2014 by Sam George

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 →

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