Tag Archives: Bram Stoker

CFP: Fourth World Dracula Congress

Posted on 14th February 2016 by firekrank

The Fourth World Dracula Congress organised by the Transylvanian Society of Dracula will be taking place on the 2oth-21st October 2016, at Trinity College, Dublin. The CFP has been released and abstracts of 150-250 words need to be sent in by … Continue reading →

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CFP: World Vampire Congress 2016

Posted on 10th February 2016 by firekrank

The following CFP has been released for the World Vampire Congress 2016 which forms part of the Bram Stoker International Film Festival (BSIFF) which will be taking place 27th-30th October 2016, Whitby, Yorkshire. More information can be found below: “World … Continue reading →

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Gothic Britain

Posted on 5th January 2016 by firekrank

Following on from my previous post about YA Gothic novels, the Costa Book Awards has announced that the winner of its Costa First Novel Award 2015 is The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley. Set in the northwest of England, it looks like a … Continue reading →

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Britain’s Medieval Vampires – Review

Posted on 4th November 2015 by firekrank

Last night I caught up with ‘Britain’s Medieval Vampires’ on Channel 4. The programme looked at a number of ‘deviant’ burials which had occurred in the Anglo-Saxon period in Britain and related them to a 12th-century text, the ‘Life and … Continue reading →

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Some aural and visual delights to feed your Gothic needs …

Posted on 30th October 2015 by firekrank

Quite a few excellent sources have recently been posted on the OGOM Facebook page. For those of you who are not Facebookers, I thought I would collect them together for your delight, delectation, and education. Firstly there is this useful … Continue reading →

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Roger Luckhurst, ‘Why bother reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula?’

Posted on 16th October 2015 by William the Bloody

And again, Roger Luckhurst! This time, a succinct essay on the significance of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, placing it in the context of late nineteenth-century Britain and anxieties over Empire and otherness.

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Before Bram: a timeline of vampire literature

Posted on 16th October 2015 by William the Bloody

More useful information from Roger Luckhurst on the origins of the vampire. This timeline illustrates the ethnographic and literary precursors of Stoker’s Dracula.

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Roger Luckhurst, ‘The birth of the vampyre: Dracula and mythology in Early Modern Europe’

Posted on 16th October 2015 by William the Bloody

An extract here from Roger Luckhurst’s excellent introduction to the OUP World’s Classics edition of Dracula. The notion that the vampire is universal and archetypal is debunked, and its origins shown to lie in the Enlightenment response to folkloric panics … Continue reading →

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Grave Diggers Steal Vampire Director’s Skull: Is this why Bram Stoker has no Tomb ?

Posted on 15th July 2015 by Sam George

I was presenting on Nosferatu recently whilst in Romania and talking about what happened when the Dracula myth shifted to Germany in 1922. Today I was surprised to read that Murnau’s head had been stolen from his grave in Germany … Continue reading →

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Dracula Quiz

Posted on 14th June 2015 by William the Bloody

The Gothic scholar Roger Lockhurst has set a quiz here to test your knowledge of Dracula. I made s a silly mistake and only got 9/10!

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