- Join 9,963 other subscribers.
Blog Stats
- 286,480 hits
Search by Category:
Meta
Tags
- adaptation
- aesthetics
- Angela Carter
- Animals
- art
- body Gothic
- Bram Stoker
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- CFP
- Children's literature
- Company of Wolves
- Conference
- Dracula
- fairies
- fairy tale
- Fairy tales
- Fantasy
- Female Gothic
- Feminism
- Film
- Folklore
- Frankenstein
- gender
- Genre
- Gothic
- Gothic novel
- horror
- Horror Film
- Intertextuality
- Monsters
- music
- myth
- Paranormal romance
- popular culture
- sexuality
- SF
- TV
- Twilight
- Vampires
- Werewolves
- witches
- Wolves
- women
- YA Fiction
- Zombies
Tag Archives: Ghosts
Contemporary Gothic Study Day, Lancaster University, 20 May 2016
This looks like a brilliant day on contemporary Gothic at Lancaster University, organised by Catherine Spooner’s Gothic scholars and featuring Emma McEvoy (University of Westminster) and the award-winning novelist Andrew Michael Hurley. In addition, there are papers on a wide … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged contemporary Gothic, folk Gothic, Ghosts, horror, J. G. Ballard, Werewolves
Leave a comment
Supernatural Cities CFP @imaginetheurban
Many of you will remember the fabulous research seminar by Dr Karl Bell on Spring-Heeled Jack: and this conference has developed out of Karl’s supernatural cities project. I like the Baudelaire and Benjamin aspect of the CFP and the symposium … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), Conferences
Tagged Ghosts, supernatural, supernatural creatures, urban gothic
Leave a comment
CFP: Promises of Monsters
Temptation comes in the form of this CFP for the conference, ‘Promises of Monsters’ taking place in Stavanger, Norway on the 28th-29th April 2016. Abstracts are due by 15th December 2015.
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged adaptation, aesthetics, CFP, Conference, demons, Faeries, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Werewolves, witches, Zombies
Leave a comment
A Compendium of Monsters
Over the Halloween period, the Wellcome Collection have put together an online compendium of monsters including the witch, zombie, werewolf, vampire and ghost. Though it’s quite tongue-in-cheek, I always think it is interesting to note what constitutes the stereotype of … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, Fun stuff, Resources
Tagged adaptation, aesthetics, Ghosts, Gothic, horror, Monsters, Vampires, Werewolves, witches, Zombies
Leave a comment
Are haunted houses the new vampires?
In yesterday’s paper there was a very interesting article by Sarah Hughes entitled ‘Out with vampires, in with haunted houses: the ghost story is back’. Now whilst I do not wish to see the true death of my favourite revenants, … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, Fun stuff
Tagged Female Gothic, Ghosts, Gothic, Gothic novel
Leave a comment
UPDATE: Extended Deadline: Monstrous Messengers 17 Aug. 2015
Chapters still required for this collection of essays on ‘supernatural figures in children’s picture books and early readers’, edited by Leslie Ormandy. For this collection, three more papers from any discipline are welcome; however, advantaged are those focusing on a … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged CFP, Children's literature, education, gender, Ghosts, illustration, Monsters, religion, Vampires, Werewolves
Leave a comment
Monstrous media/spectral subjects
Catherine Spooner, who has contributed to OGOM since the beginning, has co-edited a new collection of essays with Fred Botting: Monstrous media/spectral subjects: Imaging Gothic from the nineteenth century to the present (from Manchester University Press, who have an excellent Gothic … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Publications
Tagged Film, Ghosts, Gothic, media, Monsters, music, phantasmagoria, technology, TV, Victorian Gothic
Leave a comment
Frankenstein and Fantasmagoriana
This is the first of three very interesting articles by Maximiliaan van Woudenberg on an important source of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein–the collection of ghost stories in Fantasmagoriana (1812).
Posted in Books and Articles, Critical thoughts, Resources
Tagged Fantasmagoriana, Frankenstein, Ghosts, Mary Shelley
Leave a comment
Phantasmagoria : The Dark Side of the Light
A fascinating short film with Mervyn Heard on the spooky spectacle of the late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century phantasmagoria and its uncanny foreshadowings of cinematic thrills. If this whets your appetite, come to the OGOM Company of Wolves Conference in September–we will … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged cinema, Eighteenth century, Ghosts, Gothic, phantasmagoria, Victorian Gothic
Leave a comment
17 of March 2015’s Best YA Books
The YA novels listed here look very exciting, and many have a Gothic, paranormal tinge to them, featuring witches, ghosts, and so on. I have to confess to not knowing any of these but I’ll be investigating them!