Tag Archives: horror

Events and CFPs: Vampires, pedagogy, Candyman, folk horror, Gothic adaptation, Gothic women

Posted on 4th April 2022 by William the Bloody

Quite a diverse selection here of CFPs, forthcoming events, and resources; OGOM’s Dr Sam George and Dr Bill Hughes discussing vampiric matters among them! 1. Polidor’s The Vampyre, In Our Time, Radio 4, 9.00/21.30, 7 April 2022 Melvyn Bragg and … Continue reading →

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Nosferatu at 100: The Vampire as Contagion and Monstrous Outsider

Posted on 14th February 2022 by William the Bloody

Online Event: Saturday, 12 March 2022, 10.00 – 14.35 GMT 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the release of F. W. Murnau’s classic vampire film, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror. The Open Graves, Open Minds Project are hosting an online event to … Continue reading →

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Call for articles: Murder she wrote, Supernatural Cities, 1980s horror

Posted on 1st December 2021 by William the Bloody

Some calls for articles in journals and edited collections. Be warned that the deadline for the Murder, She Wrote collection is very soon–15 December 2021! 1. Call for chapters: Edited collection – ‘Something very sinister is going on here’: The … Continue reading →

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CFPs: Gothic Interruptions, New Romanticisms, Byron, Angela Carter, Romance

Posted on 26th November 2021 by William the Bloody

Some exciting CFPs for forthcoming conferences. The one we have all been waiting for, the International Gothic Association 2022 conference in Dublin is out at last!** Note that the deadline for the Angela Carter symposium is very soon–30 November. 1. … Continue reading →

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CFPs: Fantasy, Irish literature, religion, the occult, Islam, horror, Shelley, the Inklings

Posted on 15th September 2021 by William the Bloody

CFPs for some exciting conferences ahead. 1. Once and Future  Fantasies conference, Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic (CFF) at the University of Glasgow, 13 –17 July 2022. Deadline: 22 October 2021  We therefore ask how fantasy and the fantastic engage with … Continue reading →

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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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CFPs: Dark Economies, Lovecraft Country, Zombies

Posted on 28th January 2021 by William the Bloody

Some excitng CFPs for conferences here–the deadline for ‘Dark Econimies’ is very soon, so hurry! 1. ‘Dark Economies: Anxious Futures, Fearful Pasts‘, Falmouth University, UK, 7-9 July 2021. A face-to-face conference! Deadline: 1 February 2021. The present is dark. With … 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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CFPs: Reimagining the Gothic, Gothic politics, Byron, folklore, Vampire Diaries, Japanese horror

Posted on 14th November 2019 by William the Bloody

A batch of conference calls for papers and calls for chapters: 1. Reimagining the Gothic 2020: Bodies and Genders, University of Sheffield, 1-3 May 2020. Deadline: 2 December 2019. Reimagining the Gothic is an ongoing project that seeks to explore … Continue reading →

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CFPs: Vampires, Philip Pullman, climate change, horror film, Good Omens

Posted on 20th August 2019 by William the Bloody

1. CFP for PCA/ACA Vampire Studies on the legacy of Bram Stoker: Annual National Popular Culture Association Conference, Philadelphia, 15-18 April 2020. Deadline: 1 November 2019. The co-chairs of the PCA/ACA Vampire Studies area are soliciting papers, presentations, panels and … Continue reading →

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