Tag Archives: Ghosts

Frankenstein and Fantasmagoriana

Posted on 25th March 2015 by William the Bloody

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).

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Phantasmagoria : The Dark Side of the Light

Posted on 19th March 2015 by William the Bloody

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 →

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17 of March 2015’s Best YA Books

Posted on 10th March 2015 by William the Bloody

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!

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A guide to ghosts by Jonathan Stroud

Posted on 16th November 2014 by William the Bloody

A pictorial exploration of the different types of ghosts, ghouls, spectres, and the like.

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Marcus Sedgwick, The Ghosts of Heaven

Posted on 3rd October 2014 by William the Bloody

The celebrated YA author Marcus Sedgwick, who has been a generous contributor to OGOM from its inception, has a new novel out which looks very exciting: The Ghosts of Heaven. Visit the website and watch the brilliant trailer.

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Locating the Gothic Conference, Limerick, 22-25 October 2014

Posted on 30th September 2014 by Admin

This looks a fantastic conference: “‘Locating the Gothic“, [. . .] is an international conference and series of interlinked events exploring the concept of Gothic locations.’

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