Tag Archives: Gothic

CFP: The Handbook to Horror Literature: Select chapters needed

Posted on 5th April 2017 by William the Bloody

A Call for Articles here for a collection on horror literature edited by Kevin Corstorphine and Laura Kremmel. The deadline is 30 April 2017. Most handbooks on the subject of horror focus specifically on film, whereas books on the literary … Continue reading →

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CFP: Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the Ecogothic, Trinity College Dublin, 17-18 November 2017

Posted on 6th February 2017 by William the Bloody

Another conference! Ecogothic is an emerging trend in ways of looking at Gothic, horror, and fantastic narratives. People who attended OGOM’s 2015 Company of Wolves conference, with its probing of the interrelationship of culture and nature, human and animal, might … Continue reading →

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CFP: Call for Articles: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Screen Adaptations

Posted on 30th November 2016 by William the Bloody

And following my last post on Steampunk and Neo-Victorianism, there’s a call here for articles in a collected volume on Victorian and Neo-Victorian Screen Adaptations.

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Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 10 Dec 2016-19 Mar 2017

Posted on 28th November 2016 by William the Bloody

It’s rare that I don’t post anything on Angela Carter. And so here’s an event, or series of events, in Bristol on Carter that looks really amazing: Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter. There’s an exhibition of works that … Continue reading →

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CFP: Women-in-Peril or Final Girls? Representing Women in Gothic and Horror Cinema, University of Kent, 25-26 May 2017

Posted on 17th November 2016 by William the Bloody

A call for papers for an exciting conference, Women-in-Peril or Final Girls? Representing Women in Gothic and Horror Cinema, at the University of Kent in May 2017. The keynote speaker is MMU’s brilliant Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. This conference seeks … Continue reading →

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Angela Carter and the Gothic

Posted on 7th November 2016 by William the Bloody

Once more, something on Angela Carter. This is an excellent essay by Greg Buzwell on the interplay between Gothic and fairy tale in Carter’s The Bloody Chamber from the British Library’s Discovering Literature pages (a fabulous resource). Buzwell discusses such … Continue reading →

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CFP Gothic Modernisms, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 29-30 June 2017

Posted on 5th November 2016 by William the Bloody

This looks a very interesting conference on Gothic Modernisms in Amsterdam.

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CFP Supernatural Cities, Gothic Cities

Posted on 19th October 2016 by Sam George

Here’s an exciting CFP from our friends in Limerick and Portsmouth. Dr Tracy Fahey is co-curator of the Limerick leg of our Books of Blood Project in 2017 and Dr Karl Bell has previously been a guest of OGOM and delivered … Continue reading →

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Generation Dead: Gothic Romanced

Posted on 13th October 2016 by firekrank

Firstly, apologies for the delay in writing up this blog post on my second lecture for ‘Generation Dead’, ‘Gothic Romanced: Twilight and Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, which took place last week. You can expect two blogs on ‘Generation Dead’ this … Continue reading →

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Hallowe’en Special Offer from Manchester University Press

Posted on 7th October 2016 by Sam George

More on the special MUP Hallowe’en offer. To get your 30% discount on their gothic list simply go to the MUP website and enter Halloween16  at the checkout. Offer expires at midnight on 31st October……don’t wait for the witching hour … Continue reading →

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