Category Archives: Resources

Witchy Vampires

This is a little light, but fun, and a starting point for those who want to explore the folkloric vampire/witch figure from outside the usual Western literary paradigms. (Though calling these kindred bloodsuckers ‘vampire’ and universalising them thus opens up … Continue reading

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Books and Articles: Secondary reading material for OGOM research

I’ve created a new category for posts on the OGOM blog: ‘Books and Articles‘. Tags and categories can be a bit fuzzy and imprecise (not always a bad thing) but this one is meant to help students and scholars of … Continue reading

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The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography

OGOM luminary and vampire scholar Stacey Abbott has drawn our attention to this bibliography of vampire representations by J. Gordon Melton and Alysa Hornick. It looks very comprehensive and would be a brilliant resource for all those studying the multifarious … Continue reading

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The Return of the Wolves

A few people today have drawn my attention to the following article on the BBC website: The place where wolves could soon return. I took great pleasure in reading it as I think it offers a balanced view of the … Continue reading

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Witches from Fiction, Witches from History

Having read Sam’s post on The Emergence of the Sympathetic Witch in Twentieth-Century Culture, I was pleased to see one of my favourite online groups, A Mighty Girl, posting about a book called History’s Witches: An Illustrated Guide (2013) by Lisa Graves. … Continue reading

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Horror in the Arts – Free Articles!

As what surely is a celebration of Gothtober and in order to give you something good to curl up with as the nights draw in, Routledge is offering two months of free access to their collection Horror in the Arts. … Continue reading

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Wolf Blood (1925) – A Werewolf Film

Though this has previously been posted on the OGOM facebook site, I thought it was too good not to share here as well. This is a very interesting blog post on the earliest surviving werewolf film, Wolf Blood (1925). The earliest werewolf … Continue reading

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Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland: An on-line annotated edition

This looks a fantastic resource for scholars, students, and anyone interested in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: An online annotated edition featuring twelve Lewis Carroll scholars taking one chapter each, plus illustrations and remixes from the classic 1865 and … Continue reading

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Get in the mood for OGOM Company of Wolves with this must see Little Red Riding Hood

Deliciously camp, erotic, creepy and funny adaptation of one of the ‘Red Riding Hood’ variants (most likely, this one collected by Paul Delarue), with echoes of Doré’s illustrations and German Expressionist cinema. . 16-year-old Christina Ricci stars as a not-so-innocent … Continue reading

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The Promise

I’ve not watched this yet, but this short film, The Promise, directed by Gabriele Salvatores, looks very relevant to our Company of Wolves conference themes of wolves, sociality, and animality. It’s now online. The Promise talks about the relationship between … Continue reading

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