Category Archives: MA Reading the Vampire module news

The Coffin Boffin’s Choice of Vintage Vampire Shorts

Posted on 31st October 2020 by Sam George

Here, in all their beauty and glory are my pick of the greatest vintage vampire shorts; seductive and predatory, terrifying and comic, vital and metaphoric, doomed and daring! View Post

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Programme and Booking for Polidori Vampyre 200

Posted on 11th March 2019 by William the Bloody

Tickets are selling rapidly for the Polidori Vampyre Symposium so do book here before it’s too late! The programme is available here and we think it’s looking fabulous–see the images below. ‘Mad, bad, and dangerous’—and hot! That’s how Lady Caroline … Continue reading →

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Twilight: feminism and fandom

Posted on 21st November 2018 by William the Bloody

It’s the ten-year anniversary of the first film of Stephenie Meyers’s Twilight series (Twilight, dir. by Catherine Hardwicke), the YA vampire paranormal romance which became a sensation. Both book and film, and the adulation both received, attracted much criticism, often … Continue reading →

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Slaying Vampires: Romantic Origins, Theatrical Afterlives

Posted on 1st November 2018 by Sam George

. @DrSamGeorge1 talks about the fascinating history behind this vampire slaying kit, which feeds into the research of the @OGOMProject.#halloween pic.twitter.com/VIKQyktHZV — University of Hertfordshire (@UniofHerts) October 31, 2018 ‘ but those mine enemies, which would not that I should … Continue reading →

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Deviant Burial of ‘Vampire’ Child in C15th Italy

Posted on 14th October 2018 by Sam George

I am mapping ‘deviant’ burials for a piece I am writing on Wharram Percy, the medieval English village that mutilated its own dead, including many women and children. Whatever these people believed eventually took hold completely and led to them … Continue reading →

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Vampire Myths and Vampire Lore

Posted on 23rd September 2018 by Sam George

Vampires – a guide to the undead. Click on the image to enter

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Recording Dracula (Part Two)

Posted on 8th September 2017 by Sam George

I spent Tuesday at Broadcasting House recording ‘The Forum’ on Dracula. I was one of three guests representing Dracula scholars from around the world for an international audience for the BBC World Service. Joining me from Canada was Dacre Stoker, … Continue reading →

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Reading the Vampire: New Critical Studies

Posted on 12th August 2017 by Sam George

It is that time of the year again when I’m anticipating a new run of my ‘Reading the Vampire’ MA module . I’ll be embarking on all the bloodsucking basics with my new MA students in just a few weeks … Continue reading →

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Is A Yorkshire Village Home to the First Plague of English Vampires?

Posted on 3rd April 2017 by Sam George

Today news broke of a number of mutilated corpses uncovered in a Yorkshire village called Wharram Percy. The medieval English villagers showed widespread belief in the undead returning as revenants or reanimated corpses. They fought back against the risk of … Continue reading →

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Vampire Theatricals: An Exploration of Vampires on the Stage

Posted on 13th February 2017 by Sam George

Last week on ‘Reading the Vampire’ we explored ‘The Vampire Theatre: Stage Plays and Victorian Melodrama’ our workshop texts were J. R. Planché, The Vampyre, or Bride of the Isles (1820); William Thomas Moncrieff, The Spectre Bridegroom (1821); George Blink, The … Continue reading →

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