Tag Archives: Vampires

Greg Buzwell, ‘Bram Stoker’s stage adaptation of Dracula’

Another useful article from the BL’s excellent series. This might be useful for OGOM MA researchers as well as those concerned with the transmutation of the vampire through various media: To coincide with the British Library’s current major exhibition, Terror … Continue reading

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‘Christmas’ leaflet distributed in Cambridge claims homosexuals are like vampires

The monstrous vampire has longed served to represent the Other, the repulsive outsider that society shuns. And it continues to play this role, despite the ascent of the sympathetic vampire and demonic lover. As OGOM contributors have charted in the … Continue reading

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Folk Gothic: Polish Vampires Helped into their Graves by Hoards of Villagers and Their Pitch Forks

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Spectral Visions: Interview with Bill Hughes

Stephanie Gallon, of the University of Sunderland’s Spectral Visions group, has interviewed me here about the Open Graves, Open Minds Project and paranormal romance. I enjoyed the interview very much; her questions were relevant and challenging and helped me clarify … Continue reading

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Gail Turley Houston, ‘From Dickens to Dracula’

A thoughtful short essay on Dracula and the presence of the Gothic mode in Victorian fiction generally.

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The Wild Evolution of Vampires, From Bram Stoker to Dracula Untold

Devon Maloney gives a brisk but useful survey of the changes in the image of the literary and cinematic vampire.

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Six people given a vampire burial in Poland

Six people given a vampire’s burial over 200 years ago have been discovered in a Polish graveyard, some barricaded in the earth with sharp sickles, some weighted by stones on their necks, possibly to keep them from chewing through their … Continue reading

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Bram Stoker: Dracula – audio and video guides

Very useful audio and video guides to Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Roger Luckhurst, editor of the Oxford World’s Classics edition.

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Vampires!

Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn of Manchester Metropolitan University gives a talk on the origin of vampires.

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History at Stake! The Story Behind Vampire Slaying Kits

We’ve shown a few pictures of vampire slaying kits on this blog before. Here’s a historical account of them from the British Library, where they have one on display as part of the Terror and Wonder exhibition on Gothic.

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