Tag Archives: Vampires

Manchester’s Gothtastic Show: Darkness and Light

Posted on 17th July 2015 by Sam George

The John Rylands Library is pretty special for me being from Manchester. It is probably the most striking building in the entire city, delightfully imposing in its neo-Gothic splendour and housing some of the most rare and beautiful books ever … Continue reading →

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Grave Diggers Steal Vampire Director’s Skull: Is this why Bram Stoker has no Tomb ?

Posted on 15th July 2015 by Sam George

I was presenting on Nosferatu recently whilst in Romania and talking about what happened when the Dracula myth shifted to Germany in 1922. Today I was surprised to read that Murnau’s head had been stolen from his grave in Germany … Continue reading →

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Review of ‘Locating Fantastika’, University of Lancaster, 7th-8th July 2015

Posted on 14th July 2015 by firekrank

I have now been to enough conferences in my research area to start recognising people so that conferences become not only a place to proffer your work to other academics (flinching slightly when it gets to questions) but also to … Continue reading →

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Review of ‘Beliefs and Behaviours in Education and Culture’, West University of Timisoara, 25th-27th June 2015

Posted on 12th July 2015 by firekrank

Apologies for this being a little late with this review. It’s not because Sam and I got lost in Transylvania (though I think both of us would have liked to spend longer exploring Timisoara and the surrounding Romanian countryside). The … Continue reading →

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CFP: ‘Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil’, University of Sheffield, 24-27 June, 2016

Posted on 17th June 2015 by William the Bloody

I’m very much looking forward to this conference, ‘Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil’, celebrating that moment of the Shelley-Byron circle when both Frankenstein and the literary vampire were born ‘The year without a summer’, as 1816 was known, was … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Vampire Films

Posted on 14th June 2015 by William the Bloody

A stimulating review of the ten best vampire films from the Gothic scholar Roger Luckhurst of Birkbech College. Some familiar ones, some new ones, and some rarely discussed choices.

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Dracula Quiz

Posted on 14th June 2015 by William the Bloody

The Gothic scholar Roger Lockhurst has set a quiz here to test your knowledge of Dracula. I made s a silly mistake and only got 9/10!

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My Twilight Years

Posted on 13th June 2015 by William the Bloody

This is the marvellously appropriate birthday present I received from my friend Hilary last week.

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Xavier Aldana Reyes: Tribute to Christopher Lee

Posted on 13th June 2015 by William the Bloody

Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes, Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University and a contributor to the OGOM special issue of Gothic Studies, pays tribute to the late Christopher Lee here.

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Every Age Embraces the Vampire it Needs: RIP Christopher Lee

Posted on 11th June 2015 by Sam George

Sad news about the passing of Sir Christopher Lee. I had some lively discussions with Sir Chris Frayling at the BFI’s Gothic season about his portrayal of Dracula I remember. I took my PhD students Matt, Kaja and Jillian to … Continue reading →

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