Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
You can watch F. W. Murnau’s 1922 film Nosferatu: A Symphoony of Horror here for free as it is in the public domain:
Select Vampire Reading List (featuring the work of our speakers)
Stacey Abbott, Celluloid Vampires: Life After Death in the Modern World (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007)
Stacey Abbott, Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016)
Ken Gelder, Reading the Vampire (London: Routledge, 1994)
Ken Gelder, New Vampire Cinema (London: Bloomsbury, 2019 )
Sam George, ‘How Long Have We Believed in Vampires?‘ The Conversation, October 2017
Sam George, ‘Spirited Away: Dream Work, the Outsider, and the Representation of Transylvania in the Pied Piper and Dracula Myth in Britain and Germany, in Dracula: An International Perspective, ed, Marius-Mircea Crișan (London: Palgrave, 2017), pp. 69-93
Sam George, ‘Older than Dracula: in Search of the English Vampire’, The Conversation, October, 2018
Sam George, ‘Vampire’s Rebirth: from monstrous undead creature to sexy and romantic Byronic seducer in one ghost story’, March, 2019
Sam George, America’s First Vampire was Black and Revolutionary – it’s time to remember him, The Conversation, October, 2020
Sam George, ‘Vampires, Demons and the Disappearing Shadow in Folkloric Fictions of the Long Nineteenth Century’, Gothic Studies, 22.1 (2020), 31-48
Sam George and Bill Hughes, eds., Open Graves, Open Minds, Representations of Vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the Present Day (Manchester, MUP, 2012)
Sam George and Bill Hughes, Introduction: ‘Undead Reflections: The Sympathetic Vampire and its Monstrous Other’, Gothic Studies, 15.1 (2013)
Xavier Aldana Reyes and Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, eds., Visions of the Vampire: Two Centuries of Immortal Tales (London: British Library, 202o)
Xavier Aldana Reyes, Gothic Cinema (London: Routledge, 2020).
Xavier Aldana Reyes, Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership (London: Routledge, 2016)
Xavier Aldana Reyes, Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2014)
Marcus Sedgwick, Books