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Tag Archives: Monsters
CFPs: Byron, monsters, the Brontës, SFF, fairytale horror
We’ve been very lax about adding news to the blog lately and we do apologise (work pressure, ill health, project deadlines, etc.). However, there does seem to be a lot going on and here are some recent CFPs for conferences … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences)
Tagged Brontes, Byron, Fairy tales, Fantasy, Gothic, horror, landscape, Monsters, nature, Romanticism, SF, SFF, TV, Werewolves
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Mythological Africans: Seeing Beyond the Unknown Other in Folklore
We’d like to showcase the work of Helen Nde, whose project Mythological Africans is an exciting exploration of the diverse mythology, religion, and folklore of the African continent. Helen has a forthcoming book, The Runaway Princess and Other Stories, a … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Resources
Tagged Africa, African folklore, African literature, Fantasy, foklore, magical realism, Monsters, myth, speculative fiction
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Blood & Celluloid: Vampire Film Festival – October 15th 2022
Fangtastic news – OGOM will be taking part in Blood and Celluloid: an all day Vampire Film Festival at The Ultimate Picture Palace, Cowley Road, Oxford. This is part of the BFI In Dreams are Monsters Season – a major … Continue reading
Posted in Events, OGOM News
Tagged Film, horror, Monsters, Neil Jordan, vampire lovers, Vampires
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Corporeal Creations: Bodily Figurations of Creativity, Online Workshop – 24 March 2021
You are warmly invited to attend the forthcoming workshop “Corporeal Creations: Bodily Figurations of Creativity,” to be held online via Zoom at Tübingen University on 24 March 2021. Please see the program below. The workshop will examine medieval and post-medieval … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged Frankenstein, John Gower, medieval literature, Milton, Monsters, poetics, robots, Sidney, Vampires, William Scott
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The Haunted Landscape: Magic and Monsters of the British Isles; 23rd November, Conway Hall, London
‘The Haunted Landscape: Magic and Monsters of the British Isles’ is a one-day symposium on folklore, magic and beyond. Authors and researchers discuss fairies, witchcraft, werewolves, vampires, dragons, the lore of autumn, and the magic of common folk. Up the … Continue reading
‘Do fictional monsters reflect our reality?’, The Royal Institution, 5 June 2018
This event at The Royal Institute, London may be of interest: Do fictional monsters reflect our reality? Tuesday 5 June, 7.00pm – 8.30pm Frankenstein’s creature is a classic example of a monster in popular culture. But what can fictional beings … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged Children, classical literature, Frankenstein, Gothic, Monsters, neurology
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Colonel Sanders and the Demonic Lover
I love the conjunction of genres and the taming of monsters that occurs in paranormal romance, and much of OGOM’s research centres on this. The demon lovers of paranormal romance range from vampires (of course), through faeries, angels, and werewolves; … Continue reading
Posted in Fun stuff
Tagged demon lovers, Genre, Monsters, Paranormal romance, Romance, sympathetic monster
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Tropical Vampires
There’s a special issue, Tropical Liminal: Urban Vampires and Other Blood-Sucking Monstrosities of the online journal eTropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 16.1 (2017), devoted to tropical monsters including werewolves and vampires. Some excellent articles here.
Posted in Books and Articles, Critical thoughts
Tagged Asian, colonialism, Empire, Folklore, Monsters, Shapeshifters, tropical, Vampires, Werewolves
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Theodore von Holst, ‘Frankenstein’ (1831)
A very erudite and penetrating article here by Ian Haywood of the University of Roehampton on the frontispiece to Mary Shelley’s 1831 edition of Frankenstein by Theodore von Holst, a protégé of Henry Fuseli. Haywood’s essay uses the image of … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged art, Frankenstein, illustration, Mary Shelley, Monsters
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