Category Archives: Publications

Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird

Posted on 15th September 2021 by William the Bloody

Daisy Butcher, a member of OGOM and PhD student of Dr Sam George, has collaborated with friend of OGOM and University of Hertfordshire alumna, Janette Leaf to put together an exciting anthology of insect themed stories for the British Library’s … Continue reading →

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Amazing offer! 50% or more discount on In the Company of Wolves book

Posted on 23rd January 2020 by William the Bloody

We’ve been posting about the book launch for OGOM’s latest publication, In the Company of Wolves: Wolves, Werewolves, and Wild Children. If you attend the book launch, you will be able to buy the book at 50% discount (possibly more–it’s … Continue reading →

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New book: Ruth Heholt and Melissa Edmundson (eds.), Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out

Posted on 16th January 2020 by William the Bloody

This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the ‘otherness’ of animals as viewed by humans, and employing … Continue reading →

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Book Received: Cerys Crossen, The Nature of the Beast: Transformations of the Werewolf from the 1970s to the Twenty-First Century

Posted on 15th January 2020 by William the Bloody

The werewolf in popular fiction has begun to change rapidly. Literary critics have observed this development and its impact on the werewolf in fiction, with theorists arguing that the modern werewolf offers new possibilities about how we view identity and … Continue reading →

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Book Received: Xavier Aldana Reyes, Gothic Cinema

Posted on 15th January 2020 by William the Bloody

Arguing for the need to understand Gothic cinema as an aesthetic mode, this book explores its long history, from its transitional origins in phantasmagoria shows and the first ‘trick’ films to its postmodern fragmentation in the Gothic pastiches of Tim … Continue reading →

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Book Received: John B. Kachuba, Shapeshifters: A History

Posted on 15th January 2020 by William the Bloody

There is something about a shapeshifter – a person who can transform into an animal – that captures our imagination; that causes us to want to howl at the moon, or flit through the night like a bat. Werewolves, vampires, … Continue reading →

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Something to Howl About: OGOM Gothic Studies Special Issue, ‘Werewolves and Wildness’

Posted on 21st October 2018 by Sam George

We’re excited to announce that we have submitted our special issue of Gothic Studies on ‘Werewolves, Wild Children and Wilderness‘ to Edinburgh University Press for publication in May, 2019.  This is the first of two publications that have developed from … Continue reading →

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Grave Desires: Samplers, Sensibility and the Language of Flowers

Posted on 11th December 2017 by Sam George

Miranda Lennon has been collecting verses from the graves of eighteenth and nineteenth-century women and embroidering them into beautiful bespoke samplers. The verses, considered mawkish or sentimental by some, convey a beautiful sensibility around death and mourning and preserve the … Continue reading →

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Journal; Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft

Posted on 1st June 2017 by William the Bloody

I’ve come across a peer-reviewed journal which may be well be of interest to OGOM followers: Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft. A rigorously peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft draws from a broad spectrum of perspectives, methods, and disciplines, offering … Continue reading →

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Fantastika Journal

Posted on 25th April 2017 by William the Bloody

The first issue of Lancaster University’s Fantastika Journal is now available here–it looks really good, with interesting critical essays and a substantial review section. There’s a link to it in the Journals category on the right-hand side of the Blog … Continue reading →

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