Tag Archives: Shapeshifters
Amazing offer! 50% or more discount on In the Company of Wolves book
We’ve been posting about the book launch for OGOM’s latest publication, In the Company of Wolves: Wolves, Werewolves, and Wild Children. If you attend the book launch, you will be able to buy the book at 50% discount (possibly more–it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Carter, Book launch, Neil Jordan, Shapeshifters, Werewolves, Wild children, Wolves
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In the Company of Wolves – Book Launch and Film Screening 29 February 2020
Friends and Colleagues, You are cordially invited to a special event to celebrate ten years of the Open Graves, Open Minds project and to launch our new book In the Company of Wolves: Werewolves, Wolves and Wild Children. In the Company of Wolves presents further … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Carter, Book launch, Neil Jordan, Shapeshifters, Werewolves, Wild children, Wolves
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Book Received: John B. Kachuba, Shapeshifters: A History
There is something about a shapeshifter – a person who can transform into an animal – that captures our imagination; that causes us to want to howl at the moon, or flit through the night like a bat. Werewolves, vampires, … Continue reading
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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Monkey Tales: Apes and Monkeys in Asian Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 14 Jun 2016-30 Oct 2016
Number one of Sam’s favourite shapeshifters is Monkey, the character from the Chinese epic Journey to the West which was made into a children’s TV series in Japan in the 1970s. By an uncanny coincidence, 2016 is the Year of … Continue reading
Another set of Top Ten Shapeshifters (Part 1)
It’s taken me a while to respond to Kaja and Sam’s excellent lists of their top ten shapeshifters (here and here). Here are the first five of my own favourites (not in order of importance). 1. Circe, in Homer, Odyssey … Continue reading
Shapeshifters and Werecats
I’m still compiling my own top-ten shapeshifters in response to Sam’s and Kaja’s lists, but I came across this paranormal romance about a werecat, and I am very tempted: https://www.amazon.com/Cats-Tale-Melissa-Snark-ebook/dp/B00IVPYACA?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&tag=indautlan-20
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Tagged cats, Paranormal romance, Shapeshifters, Werewolves
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Top Ten Shapeshifters – The Retro Version
In response to The Guardian’s Top Ten Shapeshifters in Fiction (which is very noughties) and Kaja’s lively alternative list, I am posting my own top ten which is a little bit more retro! A shapeshifter is usually understood to be … Continue reading
Top 10 Shapeshifters in Fiction (an alternative)
Over the weekend The Guardian published an article about the top ten shapeshifters in fiction. It was an enjoyable read and proof that shapeshifters continue to be relevant. However the choice of texts was limited (three examples from Harry Potter?). And, whilst … Continue reading
Magical Skins: The Selkie’s Transformation
As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy George Mackay Brown ‘Pictures in the Cave’ In response to … Continue reading