Category Archives: Resources

10 Books That Will Change How You Think About Fairy Tales

Posted on 29th May 2015 by William the Bloody

And more on fairy tales. Some of the books on this list will be familiar (including The Bloody Chamber); some less so. There are books on the fairy tale, and reworkings of fairy tale themes and new fairy tales–for young … Continue reading →

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Angela Carter

Posted on 29th May 2015 by William the Bloody

Angela Carter’s stylish, erotic, often witty transformations of classic fairy tales are a central point of interest for those who study contemporary Gothic, and paranormal romance in particular (where motifs and plots from fairy tale are often metamorphosed in ways … Continue reading →

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Happy Walpurgisnacht!

Posted on 30th April 2015 by William the Bloody

Tonight is the night that witches party. There is a wild, fantastic depiction of this in Goethe’s Faust and there are memorable reworkings throughout literature and the arts–in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, Joseph Heller’s … Continue reading →

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Landscapes of Romance: Generic Boundaries and Epistemological Dialectics in the Paranormal Romance of Julie Kagawa’s The Iron King

Posted on 29th April 2015 by William the Bloody

Here’s the abstract for the paper I presented last week at the excellent Reading the Fantastic: Tales beyond Borders conference at the University of Leeds. You can download the paper from here, too. Within contemporary fantastic fiction, a modulation of … Continue reading →

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Tales for the Young by Hans Christian Andersen

Posted on 3rd April 2015 by William the Bloody

It was the birthday of the great Victorian fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen yesterday, so here’s a useful page at the British Library, allowing you to view his classic Tales for the Young.

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Frankenstein and Fantasmagoriana

Posted on 25th March 2015 by William the Bloody

This is the first of three very interesting articles by Maximiliaan van Woudenberg on an important source of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein–the collection of ghost stories in Fantasmagoriana (1812).

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Versions of Cinderella

Posted on 25th March 2015 by William the Bloody

Fairy tales, as we’ve shown in quite a few posts on this blog, are prone to myriad reinventions and adaptations, not least in cinema. There are countless variations on ‘Cinderella’; here’s a summary of some of the recent film versions. … Continue reading →

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Film and Fairy Tale

Posted on 23rd March 2015 by William the Bloody

The reinvention of fairy tale through literary and cinematic adaptation is a whole area of debate in itself. These three pieces look at different aspects of film versions of fairy tales: first, ‘The 25 Best Live-Action Fairy Tale Movies Ever, … Continue reading →

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Werewolves in the woods – a 12th century account of strange happenings on the borders of Meath

Posted on 23rd March 2015 by William the Bloody

An eerie mediaeval Irish werewolf tale from Gerald of Wales, The History and Topography of Ireland.

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Otranto: Gothic articles and resources

Posted on 19th March 2015 by William the Bloody

Otranto is a marvellous new project for publishing peer-reviewd online articles on the Gothic.

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