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David Bowie, Neil Gaiman, Yoshitaka Amano

Posted on 13th January 2016 by William the Bloody

More on the interaction of David Bowie and fantastic literature. If Bowie’s various personae–the masks and images he was constantly recreating and presenting to an audience–can be seen as texts, then they lie in an intertextual relationship with a story … Continue reading →

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David Bowie, Cat People

Posted on 12th January 2016 by William the Bloody

We’re not quite in the Company of Wolves, but Bowie’s theme song for Paul Schrader’s 1982 remake of the classic Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur feline shapeshifting film Cat People (1942) is yet another OGOM link.

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David Bowie Narrates Disney’s Peter And The Wolf

Posted on 11th January 2016 by William the Bloody
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Mussorgsky – Night on the Bare Mountain (Bernstein)

Posted on 1st November 2015 by William the Bloody

Continuing the witches theme. Not strictly for Hallowe’en, but an eerie accompaniment to my Walpurgisnacht poem: Mussorgsky – Night on the bare mountain (Bernstein)

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CFP Books of Blood: Collaborative Project and Funding Bid

Posted on 10th September 2015 by Sam George
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Gothic Manchester Festival 2015, 23 October 2015, John Rylands Library, Manchester

Posted on 27th August 2015 by William the Bloody

The third Gothic Manchester Festival looks very exciting–music, art, events, films, Gothic reading, and a one-day conference (where I will be giving a paper). And it takes place in the beautiful neo-Gothic John Rylands Library. Following the success of the … Continue reading →

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CFP: “Expanding the Scope of Horror”

Posted on 1st August 2015 by William the Bloody

A Call for Articles for a special journal issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities exploring new approaches to the study of horror. The proposed set of essays and book reviews would have as its main objective to offer a new practical model … Continue reading →

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Monstrous media/spectral subjects

Posted on 14th June 2015 by William the Bloody

Catherine Spooner, who has contributed to OGOM since the beginning, has co-edited a new collection of essays with Fred Botting: Monstrous media/spectral subjects: Imaging Gothic from the nineteenth century to the present (from Manchester University Press, who have an excellent Gothic … Continue reading →

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More Lupine Music

Posted on 8th May 2015 by firekrank

Last week I was lucky enough to see Laura Marling perform at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank. It was a beautiful concert. And, of more interest to me and my peculiar research topics, she opened with her song ‘Howl’. I don’t … Continue reading →

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CFP Books of Blood: Collaborative Project and Funding Bid

Posted on 12th April 2015 by Sam George

*Extended Deadline – submissions by 1st November 2015* All humans ‘are books of blood—wherever you open us, we’re red’ (Clive Barker). If our bodies are books of blood, then they can be read; we invite such readings and contributions where … Continue reading →

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