- Join 9,755 other subscribers.
-
Number of Visitors:
Site Map
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
Top Posts & Pages
- Welcome
- Mina's Paprika Hendl, inspired by Bram Stoker’s Dracula
- Fairy Tale Hybridity: What Kind of Animal is Beast in 'Beauty and the Beast'?
- What Happens to a Werewolf in the Harvest Moon?
- Angela Carter and the Gothic
- Vampires: Dracula, James Joyce, Jane Austen, bats, and Marx
- Blog
- Carmilla: the most ambiguous female vampire in fiction?
- Beauty and the Beast: A modernist transformation by Clarice Lispector
- Nosferatu at 100 (2022)
Author's Websites
- Aliette de Bodard
- Alwyn Hamilton
- Alyxandra Harvey
- Angela Carter
- Anne Rice
- Betsy Cornwell
- Brenna Yovanoff
- Cynthia Leitich Smith
- Daniel Waters's Blog
- Deborah Harkness
- Gail Carriger
- Genevieve Cogman
- Glen Duncan
- Holly Black
- Isaac Marion
- Jackson Pearce
- Julia Kagawa
- Kate Griffin
- Kendare Blake
- Kim Newman Web Site
- Laini Taylor
- Laura Lam
- Laure Eve
- Life on Magrs (Paul Magrs)
- Maggie Stiefvater
- Malinda Lo
- Marcus Sedgwick
- Melissa Marr
- Myth & Moor
- Neil Jordan
- Rachel Caine
- Robin McKinley
- Rosamund Hodge
- S. A. Chakraborty
- Samantha Shannon
- Stacey Jay
- Stephenie Meyer
- Tessa Gratton
- Victoria Schwab
Blogroll
- Angela Carter Online
- Beyond Twilight: Young Adult Gothic Fiction
- BNTEENBlog
- Breezes from Wonderland
- Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic
- Centre for Myth Studies, University of Essex
- Daniel Waters's Blog
- Gothic Imagination (University of Stirling)
- IGA Postgraduate Forum
- Life on Magrs (Paul Magrs)
- Myth & Moor
- Mythopoeic Society
- Pook Press Book Blog
- Reading the Gothic: UH Reading Group
- Romancing the Gothic
- Samantha Shannon
- Seven Miles of Steel Thistles
- Sheffield Gothic
- Spectral Visions (University of Sunderland)
- The Vampire Blog (Jennifer Williams)
- Victoria Schwab
- Wellcome Collection Blog
Journals
- Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies
- Dark Arts Journal
- Dissections: The Journal of Contemporary Horror
- Echinox Journal
- Fairy Tale Review
- Fantastika Journal
- Folklore
- Gothic Nature
- Gothic Studies
- Gramarye: The Journal of the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction
- International Journal of Young Adult Literature
- Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies
- Journal of Popular Romance Studies
- Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
- Lewis Carroll Review
- Mapping the Impossible: Journal for Fantasy Research
- Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies
- Monsters and the Monstrous
- Otranto.co.uk: The New Strawberry Hill Press
- Pennywise Dreadful: The Journal of Stephen King Studies
- Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural
- Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural
- Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association
- Studies in Gothic Fiction
- Studies in the Fantastic
- Supernatural Studies
- The Lion and the Unicorn
- Thinking Horror: a journal of horror philosophy
- Victorian Popular Fictions Journal
Related Links
- Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index
- ACADEmy
- African Religions
- Angela Carter Society
- Art Passions
- Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature
- Black Romance Timeline
- British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS)
- British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS)
- Byron Society
- Centre for Contemporary Legend
- Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic
- Centre for Folklore Myth Magic
- Centre for Myth Studies, University of Essex
- Centre for the History of the Gothic (University of Sheffield)
- Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction
- Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
- Fairy Investigation Society, The
- Fantastic Fiction
- Fantasy Literature
- Folk Horror Revival
- Folklore and Mythology – Electronic Texts
- Folklore Society
- Folklore Thursday
- Gothic Charm School
- Gothic Feminism
- Gothic Women Project
- Gothica: University of Birmingham
- Gothicise
- Hans Christian Andersen Centre
- Haunted Shores
- IAFA: The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
- International Fairy-Tale Filmography
- International Gothic Association
- Mabinogion Pathfinder
- Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies (MMU)
- MEARCSTAPA
- Mermaids of the British Isles
- My So-called Undeath: My Life as a Zombie (Daniel Waters)
- Mythological Africans
- Mythology and Folklore UN-Textbook
- Open Folklore
- PCA Vampire Studies
- Pook Press
- Romance Scholarship DB
- RomanceWiki
- Romancing the Gothic
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
- Shapeshifters in Popular Culture
- Sophie Lancaster Foundation
- Speculative Fiction in Translation
- Spine-chillers and suspense: A timeline of Gothic fiction
- Supernatural Cities
- Supernatural Studies Association
- The Secret Commonwealth
- The Thinker's Garden
- TheoFantastique
- UK Wolf Conservation Trust
- Vamped
- Victorian Popular Fiction Association
- Wells at the World's End
- Whedon Studies Association
- YA Literature, Media, and Culture
- YA Studies Association (YASA)
Meta
Tag Archives: Hybridity
Gothic Hybridity: the Nature of Demons
Hybridity is something that I have always found interesting to explore in relation to the gothic. I’ve blogged about fairy tale hybridity in relation to Beauty and the Beast and commented on the Wellcome’s ‘Making Nature’ exhibition on faux taxonomy and hybrid creatures as well as … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM Research, Resources
Tagged #demonoftheday, #GothicHybridity, demons, Dictionaire Infernal, Hybridity
Leave a comment
CFPs: Utopia & Dystopia, Gothic mashup, Screening loss, SyFy films, Gothic games, performing fairy
1. First, a conference CFP: Utopia & Dystopia: Conference on the Fantastic in Media Entertainment, University of Southern Denmark, 28-29 May 2020. Deadline: 10 December 2019. This conference invites new research in the fantastic. Why is the fantastic more popular … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences)
Tagged creative writing, dystopia, fairy, Film, Gothic, grief, horror, Hybridity, loss, mash-ups, performance, syfy, utopia
Leave a comment
IGA2018: Ambiguous Creatures and Ambivalent Morals
A huge thank you to all the organisers of the International Gothic Association 2018 conference, held at Manchester Metropolitan University. And thanks to all who attended OGOM’s Ambiguous Creatures and Ambivalent Morals panel and to all the lovely and inspiring … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM Research
Tagged angels, changelings, fairies, Genre, Gothic romance, Hybridity, IGA Manchester, mummies, Paranormal romance, Vampires, YA Gothic
Leave a comment
Fallen Angels and the Hybrid Nature of Demons
Here’s my Twitter ‘Moment’ for ‘Demon of the Day’ #gothichybridity. I’ll be back with this hashtag later in the month when I’ll be exploring vampire/ angels and continuing my research into hybridity in relation to the fallen. Demon of the Day … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM News, OGOM Research
Tagged #GothicHybridity, demons, Dr Sam George, fallen angels, Hybridity
Leave a comment
CfP: Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinary, Multimodal and Transhistorical Approaches, Manchester, 31 July-3 August 2018
I should have posted this earlier; my apologies! The Call for Papers is now out for the 14th conference of the International Gothic Association, themed ‘Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinary, Multimodal and Transhistorical Approaches’. Manchester Metropolitan University are hosting the event on … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged Frankenstein, Genre, Gothic, Hybridity, IGA, interdisciplinarity, mode, transmediation
Leave a comment
Fairy Tale Hybridity: What Kind of Animal is Beast in ‘Beauty and the Beast’?
‘Beauty and the Beast’ belongs to the Animal Groom cycle of fairy tales alongside ‘The Frog King’ and ‘Cupid and Psyche’. I have always been intrigued by what kind of animal Beast is in this tale. In his twenty first-century … Continue reading
CFP: Trans-states: The Art of Crossing Over
The University of Northampton is hosting a conference called ‘Trans-states: The Art of Crossing Over’ (9th-10th September 2016). Abstracts and proposals of 250-300 words should be sent in by the 20th March 2016. Further details can be found here.
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged Feminism, Gothic, Hybridity, identity, Monsters, sexuality, Trans, transformation
Leave a comment