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Tag Archives: Polidori
OGOM Halloween: Spooky Events & Publications
OGOM would like to invite all their followers to join them for seasonal events and spooky reading during October. We’re excited to announce the following activities: Event: Fear in the Fens Film Festival Date: Saturday, 25 October. Venue: Alive Corn … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged fairies, Film, Halloween, horror, Polidori, reflections, Romanticism, shadows, storytelling, Vampires, Werewolves
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1816: The Year Without a Summer – Polidori, the musical; and OGOM research
OGOM’s book on John William Polidori (1795-1821) (who wrote the first vampire tale in English, ‘The Vampyre’, in 1819), The Legacy of John Polidori: The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny has been out nearly a year. Now, the perfect accompaniment … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, comic Gothic, Mary Shelley, Matt Beresford, musicals, Percy Shelley, Polidori, theatre, Vampires
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OGOM BOOKS ON SPECIAL OFFER UNTIL 7 JULY
Our publishers MUP currently have a summer sale where you can purchase half price books until 7th July 2025!! These include In the Company of Wolves and The Legacy of John Polidori: The Romantic Vampire and Its Progeny. Use the … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM News
Tagged #MUPGOTHIC, book offers, Polidori, vampire, Werewolves, Wolves
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Sam George: BBC interview on vampires, disease, and immortality
Sam has been interviewed for BBC News alongside the horror writer and actor Mark Gatiss and Interview with the Vampire writer Rolin Jones. She talks about the immortality of the vampire and how it has always been associated with disease … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM Research
Tagged disease, immortality, nosferatu, plague, Polidori, tuberculosis, Vampires
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Events and CFPs: Vampires, pedagogy, Candyman, folk horror, Gothic adaptation, Gothic women
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
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences), Events
Tagged Candyman, ECRs, Folk Horror, Glenarvon, Gothic literature, Gothic novel, horror, Lady Caroline Lamb, pedagogy, Polidori, Romanticism, The Vampyre, trauma, Vampires, women
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Lady Caroline Lamb (13 November 1785–25 January 1828) – Byronic vampires and romance
Lady Caroline Lamb, whose birthday it would have been on 13 November (I’m a bit late!), famously judged Lord Byron ‘Mad, bad, and dangerous’, having had a brief and tempestuous affair with him. This relationship inspired her novel Glenarvon (1816), … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM Research
Tagged Byron, Byronic hero, Glenarvon, Gothic romance, Ireland, Lady Caroline Lamb, paramormal romance, Polidori, Vampires
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The Black Vampyre: Gothic Visions of New Worlds #BeingHuman2020
We’re excited to invite you to our forthcoming event to explore Gothic dreams of new worlds and the creatures that inhabit them, notably Mary Shelley’s plague world, John Polidori’s vampyre, the Black Vampyre, and the ghosts of World War 1. … Continue reading
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Tagged black vampire, Ghosts, plague, Polidori, Shelley, Vampires, vampyre, Wollstonecraft, Word War 1
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OGOM postgraduate successes: Matt Beresford and Daisy Butcher
Dr Sam George has supervised some very fruitful research projects at the University of Hertfordshire with her PhD students and we’d like to announce two great achievements. First, we’d like to congratulate Dr Matt Beresford for successfully defending his thesis, … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM News, OGOM Research
Tagged botanical Gothic, Byron, killer plants, MA Gothic Studies, PhD, Polidori, vampire studies, Vampires
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