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Author Archives: Sam George
Angel Calendar #FebruaryAngels
Thanks to everyone who is contributing to OGOM’s collaboration with Folklore Film Festival on #FebruaryAngels. You can view our glorious and heavenly Angelic Moment here and contribute to it daily throughout the month. The Book of Hours, the devotional book made … Continue reading
Posted in Fun stuff, OGOM Research
Tagged #FebruaryAngels, Angel calendar, Archangels, Bookof Hours
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Stranger Things: Flower-Headed Monsters
New addition to OGOM doctoral studies, Daisy Butcher, has just published an interesting article in the Medical Health and Humanities Journal entitled ‘Stranger Things: Maternal Body Horror’ The monster in Stranger Things, the demogorgon, who resides in the ‘Upside Down’ that … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, OGOM Research
Tagged Daisy Butcher, Orchid symbolism, plant monsters, stranger Things
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There Must Be An Angel #FebruaryAngels
A special announcement – in February OGOM will team up with the ever innovative, entertaining and educational FolkLore Film Festival on Twitter for a month of Angel-inspired fun, heavenly connections and celestial interventions. Join us on Twitter @OGOMProject @FolkloreFilmFes using the … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Fun stuff, News
Tagged angels, Film, Folklore, Folklore Film Festival, OGOM
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Big Bad Humans and Benevolent Wolves
Followers of OGOM will know that we have been at the forefront of debates around the cultural representation of the wolf since the Company of Wolves Conference in 2015. We went on to collaborate more fully with the UK Wolf … Continue reading
Literature for the Living Impaired: Teaching Zombie YA Fiction
Histories of zombies tend to focus on their reanimation in film and understandably privilege the birth of the Romero zombie. The ‘living impaired’ in literature are often overlooked in these accounts, together with their relationship to folklore, so I appreciate … Continue reading
Folk Horror Returns Ahead of The Urban Weird in April
Folk Horror has officially returned!! This could not be more serendipitous given that in three months time the OGOM project will collaborate with Supernatural Cities to present The Urban Weird (6th, 7th April) with more than a slight nod to … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, OGOM: The Urban Weird
Tagged Folk Horror, St Albans, The Urban Weird
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Direwolves: Dogs in Wolves’ Clothing in Game of Thrones
OGOM’s ‘Redeeming the Wolf’ event explored how literature, folklore, fairytale, and film have shaped our perceptions of the wolf and could be impeding its return. Odin and Thor (above) are two ‘wolf dogs’ from Northern Ireland who play ‘direwolves’ in … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM: The Company of Wolves
Tagged Direwolves, Game of Thrones, Northern Innuits, wolf dogs, Wolves
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Tides: Selkie Fiction and Film
Following Kendra Reynolds’s interesting paper on ‘Watery Bodies and Boundaries in Betsy Cornwell’s Tides’ at the Identities in YA Fiction symposium I have chosen to teach Tides (2014) on Generation Dead: YA Fiction and the Gothic in 2018 (starting in a week). … Continue reading
Happy New Year OGOMERS
Happy new Year OGOMERS from all at the project. Here’s a gothic angel slightly worse for wear to preside over your Hogmanay celebrations and to mark the fact that I have finally finished East of Eden: A Guide to Angels … Continue reading
Contemporary Fiction Featuring Angels
Most of these are Paranormal Romance, and mostly Young Adult. These angels are generally Fallen and condemned to atone on Earth in some way or another. A couple are borderline–demons or djinn. Adornetto, Alexandra, Halo, Halo Series, 1 (London: Atom, … Continue reading