Tag Archives: Vampires

The Coffin Boffin’s Choice of Vintage Vampire Shorts

Posted on 31st October 2020 by Sam George

Here, in all their beauty and glory are my pick of the greatest vintage vampire shorts; seductive and predatory, terrifying and comic, vital and metaphoric, doomed and daring! View Post

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America’s first vampire was Black and revolutionary – it’s time to remember him

Posted on 30th October 2020 by William the Bloody

Article by Sam George, University of Hertfordshire The Black Vampyre is an early literary example of an argument for emancipation of slaves. Thomas Nast/Harper’s Weekly/The Met In April of 1819, a London periodical, the New Monthly Magazine, published The Vampyre: … Continue reading →

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The Black Vampyre: Gothic Visions of New Worlds #BeingHuman2020

Posted on 5th October 2020 by Sam George

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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CFPs & Events: Gothic and contagion, fantasy and theology, Vampfest, disease, Ellen Kushner

Posted on 1st September 2020 by William the Bloody

A mixture of CFPs, calls for articles, and events concerning the Gothic and the fantastic. 1. Gothic in a Time of Contagion, Populism and Racial Injustice, Online March 2021 (date to be confirmed), Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, Canada. Deadline: … Continue reading →

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Return of the vampire: Stephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun and YA vampire fiction

Posted on 12th August 2020 by William the Bloody

The Open Graves, Open Minds Project began in 2010, in part as a response to Stephenie Meyer’s hugely successful Twilight series; a Young Adult vampire romance series, the first of which was Twilight (2005). We launched the Project with an … Continue reading →

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CFPs: Hans Andersen, fairy tales, The Vampire Diaries

Posted on 18th July 2020 by William the Bloody

Despite everything, research goes on and there are some calls for submissions here that have come to our attention. 1. The Swan’s Egg: A Student Journal of Hans Christian Andersen Studies. Deadline: 15 January 2021 The editors of The Swan’s Egg invite … Continue reading →

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Links for talks and interviews: In the Company of Wolves, Vampires

Posted on 8th July 2020 by William the Bloody

We’ve added some new links to the website for online talks and so on. I have a short talk for Manchester University Press, describing our In the Company of Wolves: Werewolves, Wolves and Wild Children book. A link to this … Continue reading →

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Review: CoronaGothic Conference, 30 June 2020, University of Macau Gothic

Posted on 1st July 2020 by William the Bloody

Dr Joan Passey has written an excellent review of the recent online CoronaGothic conference organised by the Gothic Research Network at the University of Macau in China. Sam’s earlier post with further details of the conference and the paper she … Continue reading →

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Vampires, werewolves, and Jane Austen

Posted on 24th April 2020 by William the Bloody

I am being interviewed here by Brian from Toothpickings. I talk about vampires and werewolves, the folklore of these creatures and its transmutation into literature. I also make some very tenuous links between this, the Enlightenment, Jane Austen and paranormal … Continue reading →

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Review: Dracula (BBC, January 2020)

Posted on 11th January 2020 by William the Bloody

There has been much discussion of the BBC adaptation of Dracula by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, shown this January—and the debate has been highly polarised. The OGOM Project began with a conference on vampires in 2010, followed by our … Continue reading →

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