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Author Archives: William the Bloody
CFP OGOM Conference 2025: Sea changes
Sea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river Venue: The British Library, London, UK (and online) Date: 5–6 September 2025 Fabulous, enchanted beings, hybridly human and other, populate the expanses of water of … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), OGOM: Sea Changes
Tagged art, Blue Humanities, CFP, enchantment, fairytale, Genre, Gothic, Hybridity, mermaids, ningyo, Paranormal romance, selkies, sexuality, sirens
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Sam George: BBC interview on vampires, disease, and immortality
Sam has been interviewed for BBC News alongside the horror writer and actor Mark Gatiss and Interview with the Vampire writer Rolin Jones. She talks about the immortality of the vampire and how it has always been associated with disease … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM Research
Tagged disease, immortality, nosferatu, plague, Polidori, tuberculosis, Vampires
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Review: Lowry Charles Wimberley, Folklore in the English and Scottish Ballads
This book is a fascinating read in its own right but it is also an invaluable source for my research into fairy literature that I have been pursuing along with Sam as part of the OGOM Project. This is a … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged ballads, ethnology, fairies, Folklore, Ghosts, mermaids, Otherworld, paganism, Werewolves, witches
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Out today! (1 October 2024) OGOM Project’s new book, The Legacy of John Polidori: The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny
The Legacy of John Polidori: The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny, ed. by Dr Sam George and Dr Bill Hughes Out now from Manchester University Press. This collection of essays begins with a Forward, ‘Poldori Revisited’, by the pioneer of … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, OGOM Research
Tagged Anne Rice, Byron, Frankenstein, Glenarvon, Gothic tourism, Haitian Revolution, John Polidori, Lady Caroline Lamb, Mary Shelley, Neil Jordan, phantasmagoria, Romanticism, spiritualism, the Uncanny, The Vampyre, tuberculosis, Twilight, Vampires
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CFPs: Haunted Futures, folklore and Gothic, Blue Humanities, Dennis Wheatley, Gramarye
CFPs for conferences and edited collections: 1. Haunted Futures Conference: ‘The Future of Folklore’ University College Cork, 29-30 October 2024Deadline: 24 August 2024 The conference proposes to explore hauntings and ghosts as potent staging grounds for radical social change, which, … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences)
Tagged Blue Humanities, Dennid, Dennis Wheatley, eco-Gothic, fairy tale, Fantasy, Folk Horror, Folklore, Ghosts, Gothic, haunting, horror, interdisciplinarity, landscapes
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CFPs and Events: Horror, Gothic poetry, monstrosity and Romanticism, Gothic books, Georgic Gothic
1. Horror Studies Now: A Two-Day Conference Northumbria University, UK, 30-31 May 2024.Deadline: 31 March 2024 Researchers working in the broad field of “Horror Studies” are invited to submit abstracts about their research for an in-person conference, hosted by the … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences), Events
Tagged creative writing, eco-Gothic, Film, Folk Horror, Georgics, Gothic, graveyard, Graveyard School, horror, Mathew Lewis, pastoral, poetry, Romanticism, terror
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Shabnam Ahsan, ‘Skins and Cloaks: New Identities in 21st-Century Fairy Tales’
We have rescheduled Shabnam Ahsan’s UH Research Seminar, ‘Skins and Cloaks: New Identities in 21st-century Fairy Tales’. It’s now on 13 March at 1.30 pm. Join Zoom Meeting https://herts-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95049519796 Meeting ID: 950 4951 9796 Details of further seminars can be … Continue reading
Merry Christmas 2023
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to those who celebrate from all of us at the Open Graves, Open Minds Project
CFPs: Sex and scandal, 1980s and sequels, Victorian popular fiction, Tolkien
Some more conference CFPs, with deadlines in February 1. Dark Economies: Sex, Scandal, and Sensation Falmouth University, UK (in partnership with City University, Hong Kong), 2-4 July 2024Deadline: 14 February 2024 Sex, Scandal, and Sensation is an interdisciplinary and global exploration … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged 1980s, adaptation, Genre, Gothic, medievalism, popular fiction, Romance, Romanticism, sensation fiction, serialisation, sex, Space, Tolkien, Victorian literature
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CFPs: Conjuring Creatures and Worlds, Heavy Childhoods, Cannibal Consumption, late Shelley, Angela Carter
The deadlines for these are all in January–some very close indeed! 1. GIFCon 2024: Conjuring Creatures and Worlds Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow (on line), 15-17 May 2024. Deadline: 5 January 2024 (11:59pm) How do academics, … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged Angela Carter, Cannibalism, childhood, collaboration, difference, Fantasy, imagination, magic, Portugal, resistance, Romanticism, Shelley, translation
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