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Author Archives: Sam George
Open Graves Evening in St Albans: Post Millennial Happy Gothic!
Thanks to everyone who came down to the OGOM Gothic Writing Evening on Friday 7th in St Albans with myself, Catherine Spooner and Matt Beresford. This was our first contribution to the St Albans Literary Festival and as you can … Continue reading
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Is Twilight the wish-fulfillment fantasy to end all others?
‘Twilight of the Gothic’ with Dr Joseph Crawford was an extraordinary prelude to our MA studies on the vampire and bridged the gap perfectly between vampire studies and YA fiction (my two modules and key areas of research). The talk … Continue reading
I Wonder: BBC Timeline of Gothic Fiction
Brilliant Timeline of Gothic Fiction with some pleasing visuals and useful links. Just in time for Halloween (Dr Catherine Spooner, contributor to OGOM, was the BBC’s consultant)
The World’s Creepiest Museums: A Cabinet of Curiosities
Where are you going to find shrunken heads, ventriloquist dummies, giant parasites, automatons, rooms full of trolls, the castrating instruments of Benedictine monks, the penises of 93 different species and more? Enjoy the world’s creepiest museums A brilliant post – … Continue reading
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Halloween Werewolf: Company of Wolves
Something from the Wellcome to get you in the mood for the much awaited and awesome OGOM Company of Wolves conference. CFP posted shortly. Watch this space at Halloween!!! Wellcome Collection Halloween Werewolf
The Guardian’s Top Ten vampire books
Quite an interesting list from The Guardian re: their top-10-vampire-books. Some unusual choices (Ann Radcliffe as vampire slayer and a vampire parrot) but many blood sucking basics too. I am lucky to have a nice reprint of Florence Marryat’s Blood … Continue reading
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‘Reading the Vampire’ Week 2: From the Peasant to the Aristocrat: the Birth of the Romantic/Byronic Vampire
Our second workshop tonight amidst yet more torrential rain. All the students arrived back for the second session (always a relief that they want to return). Our workshop texts were: Lord Byron, Augustus Darvell( 1819); John Polidori, ‘The Vampyre’ (1819), … Continue reading
Vampire graves unearthed in Bulgaria – the 7th such site in two years!
Archaeologists have unearthed a vampire burial site in Bulgaria. These medieval corpses were found to have been buried with a metal stake through their hearts to prevent them from returning to menace the living. This is the 7th vampire grave … Continue reading
‘Reading the Vampire’ our first workshop
Excited to teach the first workshop for ‘Reading the Vampire, Science, Sexuality and Alterity in Modern Culture’ today in suitably gothicky weather (thunder, torrential rain and flash floods). I did raise a smile as I arrived hastily, dripping, and clutching … Continue reading
Vampire MA Studies (Uni of Herts, four years on)
I mentioned that this is the fourth year of my course: ‘Reading the Vampire: Science, Sexuality and Alterity in Modern Culture’ in the OGOM news blog and I thought you might like to see the course description and weekly schedule … Continue reading