Tag Archives: YA Fiction

Bill Hughes, ‘”But by blood no wolf am I”: Language and Agency, Instinct and Essence – Transcending Antinomies in Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver series’

Posted on 10th January 2016 by William the Bloody

More from me on YA paranormal romance. This time, I’m writing about Maggie Stiefvater’s beautifully written and very moving werewolf romance, Shiver. Shapeshifter fictions, for obvious reasons, allow writers to explore all that is animal and instinctive about human beings … Continue reading →

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Bill Hughes ‘Landscapes of Romance: Generic Boundaries and Epistemological Dialectics in the Paranormal Romance of Julie Kagawa’s The Iron King’

Posted on 10th January 2016 by William the Bloody

This is a draft of my article on Julia Kagawa’s richly allusive YA paranormal romance The Iron King. If you’re taking Sam’s Generation Dead module on YA fiction and the Gothic, or if you’re just interested in Gothic and genre … Continue reading →

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Generation Dead: Young Adult Fiction and the Gothic – Starts Jan 18th

Posted on 10th January 2016 by Sam George

My Young Adult Fiction and the Gothic module ‘Generation Dead’ begins on January 18th. The students are going to be following the blog and attending the workshops described below: All over the country in the world of young adult fiction … Continue reading →

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When the Sun Stands Still

Posted on 5th January 2016 by Sam George

We are gong to be posting a fair amount of material on YA fiction and the Gothic over the next few weeks whilst the Generation Dead module is running and I wanted to begin with this story for the Winter … Continue reading →

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Inviting Vampires into the Academy

Posted on 5th January 2016 by Sam George

I finished teaching MA ‘Reading the Vampire: Science, Sexuality and Alterity in Modern Culture’ yesterday (see tab for ‘Undead Studies’ above) with a pertinent session on folklore and fiction. The course is designed to come full circle visiting the monstrous … Continue reading →

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New Books for the New Year

Posted on 4th January 2016 by firekrank

Happy New Year! And I hope the first Monday of 2016 is treating you well. Though I didn’t get as many books read as I would have liked over the festive period (reading was replaced with eating, running and spending … Continue reading →

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Savage Girls and Wild Boys

Posted on 15th December 2015 by Sam George

Those of you who attended the OGOM Company of Wolves Conference will know that I have a special interest in wild or feral children and by coincidence one of the authors that Kaja has just posted on, Katharine Rundell, has … Continue reading →

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A Round-Up of the Best YA and Children’s Literature of 2015

Posted on 14th December 2015 by firekrank

The Guardian has written a round-up of the best children’s literature of 2015 (including YA literature). It’s worth looking through for the tales that have Gothic or lupine tropes. There are a few that sprung out for me: Deep Water … Continue reading →

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Chris Riddell’s Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright

Posted on 5th November 2015 by firekrank

I have been lucky enough to finish reading Chris Riddell’s latest book in the Goth Girl series, Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright (2015). The series follows the adventures of Ada Goth, the daughter of the renowned poet Lord Goth who is ‘mad, … Continue reading →

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The 10 Scariest Goosebump Books of All Time

Posted on 20th October 2015 by firekrank

Glamour magazine has, rather strangely given their choice of horror is normally Body Gothic in the form of extreme dieting and plastic surgery gone wrong, released an article about their top 10 Scariest Goosebump Books. It’s a nostalgic read and … Continue reading →

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