Category Archives: OGOM News

Vampire and Undead Studies 2016-17

Posted on 16th August 2016 by Sam George

Maybe we had found the perfect moment in history, the perfect balance between the monstrous and the human, the time when the ‘vampire romance’ born in my imagination […] should find its greatest enhancement (Lestat). It is seven years since … Continue reading →

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Gothic Blooms: The Dark Poetics of Botany

Posted on 13th August 2016 by Sam George

It is quite hard to combine my two research strands on botany and the gothic but I do like to experiment with gothic blooms in my garden. I grew this red chocolate sunflower as a  dark counterpart to the sunshine yellow variety! … Continue reading →

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Travels in Transylvania: Bram Stoker’s Ambiguous Legacy

Posted on 2nd July 2016 by Sam George

Last week I was in Romania at the University of Timisoara for the Beliefs and Behaviours in Education and Culture conference. My keynote was on the representation of Romanian folklore in British and Irish fictions of the undead. Stoker never travelled … Continue reading →

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Folk Horror: Blood Sucking Vampire Goat Terrorises Village

Posted on 29th June 2016 by Sam George

Following my recent post on folk horror and the appearance earlier this year of the Hull Werewolf Old Stinker, who sparked a folk panic in the UK, stories are breaking that a legendary Chupacabra has been caught and killed in the Ukraine … Continue reading →

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The People Seeking the Company of Wolves

Posted on 25th May 2016 by Sam George

Anyone involved in academia will know of the importance of impact and on 8th June I will be speaking about the Open Graves, Open Minds project at the Public Engagement with Research Conference 2016 (Prince Edward Lecture Hall, University of … Continue reading →

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Why I believe in the story of ‘Old Stinker’ the Hull Werewolf

Posted on 18th May 2016 by Sam George

Sabine Baring-Gould claims that ‘English folklore is singularly barren of werewolf stories , the reason being that wolves had been extirpated from England under the Anglo Saxon kings, and therefore ceased to be the object of dread to the people’ … Continue reading →

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OGOM Newsletter May 2016

Posted on 11th May 2016 by William the Bloody

Dear OGOM followers, We hope you’re all well. We have quite a few news items. First of all, OGOM’s first book, ‘Open Graves, Open Minds’: Representations of the Undead from the Enlightenment to the Present, will be out in paperback … Continue reading →

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Open Graves, Open Minds Book – Out in Paperback on 1st June!!

Posted on 6th May 2016 by Sam George

The paperback of the Open Graves, Open Minds vampire book arrived in the MUP offices today! You can pre-order it now on Amazon priced at a very reasonable 15.99 (due 1st June).   Very exciting! If you are teaching the gothic, … Continue reading →

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It’s Walpurgisnacht – get your broomstick ready!

Posted on 30th April 2016 by Sam George

Today is Wapurgisnacht, a night of dark celebrations, also known as Hexennacht or witches night!! I am going to retweet some of our witchy posts from the blog but here are some pictures of the dark sabbath from the archive … Continue reading →

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OGOM website changes

Posted on 25th April 2016 by William the Bloody

I’ve made some changes–I hope for the better–to the OGOM website. I’m working towards a redesign that will make the site more attractive, more informative and interactively communal, and easier to use. There is now a sitemap (with a link, … Continue reading →

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