Category Archives: OGOM Research

White Wolves in and out of the Academy

Posted on 16th May 2017 by Sam George

OGOM is keeping track of wolf related stories ahead of the Being Human Festival in November. I posted earlier that May is the month of the wolf and Dr Catherine Spooner, a plenary at the now legendary Company of Wolves … Continue reading →

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What to do when the Folk Horror is us

Posted on 2nd May 2017 by Sam George

Tomorrow marks the publication of the eagerly awaited ‘Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange’ by Adam Scovell (Auteur publishing, 2017). Scovell has defined such genres in relation to (mostly British) landscape as ‘the evil under the soil, the terror in … Continue reading →

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Gothicise and Supernatural Cities

Posted on 26th April 2017 by Sam George

I’m setting up a permanent link (in the Related Links column on the right) from the site to the art collaborative Gothicise,  which was launched in 2010. Gothicise create site-specific performances that interrogate the relationship between site and narrative including the 2015 … Continue reading →

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OGOM Celebrates the Rise of Dr Kaja Franck

Posted on 16th December 2016 by Sam George

Woo hoo…huge congratulations to Kaja who passed her PhD viva today!!! Dr Franck OGOM is very, very proud of you. It has been a joy and a delight to supervise you from day one. We are all so very pleased … Continue reading →

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Kaja’s Pulp Fiction Werewolves

Posted on 27th November 2016 by Sam George

Kaja and I have both been asked to write features for the Folklore Thursday website. Mine is on vampires and the OGOM project and is very late (sorry Willow) but Kaja’s is out now and is an excellent read. Have … Continue reading →

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Werewolves in the Academy

Posted on 1st October 2016 by Sam George

OGOM’s very own Kaja Franck submitted her PhD thesis yesterday. It has been an absolute pleasure and a joy to supervise this project and see it grow into such a substantial piece of research.   ‘The Development of the Literary Werewolf: … Continue reading →

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Wolves in the Asylum at the Wellcome

Posted on 17th September 2016 by Sam George

I visited the new exhibition on Bedlam at the Wellcome this week and was thrilled to find the wolf paintings of Freud’s ‘Wolfman’ on display. As we are currently working on the publications from the Company of Wolves conference it … Continue reading →

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Hull Werewolf Old Stinker Inspires Research Paper

Posted on 2nd September 2016 by Sam George

I am beyond excited to report that The Hull Werewolf ‘Old Stinker’ has surfaced again in the last few days, terrorising women with his human face and very, very, bad breath (hence his name). The two most recent sightings have … Continue reading →

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The Strange Case of the Gubblecote Witch

Posted on 19th August 2016 by Sam George

I read this account of the Gubblecote Witch in a very old pamphlet on Gothick Hertfordshire, uncovered on a market stall in Hitchin.  For some reason I was really unsettled by this story, which is a true one, it took … 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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