Category Archives: OGOM Research

Fairies weren’t always cute – they used to drink human blood and kidnap children

Posted on 30th October 2021 by William the Bloody

Sam George, University of Hertfordshire When most people think about fairies, they perhaps picture the sparkling Tinker Bell from Peter Pan or the other heartwarming and cute fairies and fairy godmothers that populate many Disney movies and children’s cartoons. But … Continue reading →

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CoronaGothic: Cultures of the Pandemic

Posted on 13th January 2021 by Sam George

‘CoronaGothic’, Critical Quarterly 62.4 (2020), ed. by Prof William Hughes and Prof Nick Groom from the University of Macau, arrived in this morning’s post. Thank you to all who contributed to this ground-breaking discussion from a symposium organised by @UMGothic … Continue reading →

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BAME Gothic Studies – PhD funding opportunity

Posted on 2nd December 2020 by William the Bloody

OGOM’s recent ‘The Black Vampyre and Other Creations: Gothic Visions of New Worlds’ event, which took place as part of the nationwide Being Human festival, was a huge success. ‘The Black Vampyre’ (1819) itself is a rather odd and ambivalent … Continue reading →

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A Spooky True Story for Halloween with a Hertfordshire link

Posted on 31st October 2020 by Daisy Butcher

A short article by Daisy Butcher ‘The Death of Marie Emily ‘Netta’ Fornario in 1929′ Marie Emily ‘Netta’ Fornario was born in 1897 in Cairo to an Italian doctor and English mother. Her mother died while she was still an … Continue reading →

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The Coffin Boffin’s Choice of Vintage Vampire Shorts

Posted on 31st October 2020 by Sam George

Here, in all their beauty and glory are my pick of the greatest vintage vampire shorts; seductive and predatory, terrifying and comic, vital and metaphoric, doomed and daring! View Post

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America’s first vampire was Black and revolutionary – it’s time to remember him

Posted on 30th October 2020 by William the Bloody

Article by Sam George, University of Hertfordshire The Black Vampyre is an early literary example of an argument for emancipation of slaves. Thomas Nast/Harper’s Weekly/The Met In April of 1819, a London periodical, the New Monthly Magazine, published The Vampyre: … Continue reading →

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Gothic Hybridity: the Nature of Demons

Posted on 27th July 2020 by Sam George

Hybridity is something that I have always found interesting to explore in relation to the gothic. I’ve blogged about fairy tale hybridity in relation to Beauty and the Beast and commented on the Wellcome’s ‘Making Nature’ exhibition on faux taxonomy and hybrid creatures as well as … Continue reading →

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CFPs, new resources: Gothic Nature, Middle Eastern Gothics, Science Fiction and empire

Posted on 16th May 2020 by William the Bloody

We recognise this is a very uncertain time and we at OGOM hope everyone is well and safe. Despite the barriers, academic life goes on and we have a few CFPs to advertise, plus some new resources added to the … Continue reading →

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Vampires, werewolves, and Jane Austen

Posted on 24th April 2020 by William the Bloody

I am being interviewed here by Brian from Toothpickings. I talk about vampires and werewolves, the folklore of these creatures and its transmutation into literature. I also make some very tenuous links between this, the Enlightenment, Jane Austen and paranormal … Continue reading →

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Vampire criticism: Slayage and Angel; Holly Black’s Coldtown

Posted on 29th November 2019 by William the Bloody

Angel, the tormented ‘vampire with a soul’, was, through his love affair with Buffy in Joss Whedon’s TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997‒2003), one significant archetype of the romantic vampire of paranormal romance. Whedon then developed his character further … Continue reading →

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