Category Archives: Resources

Roger Luckhurst, ‘Perversion and degeneracy in The Picture of Dorian Gray’

An excellent short essay on Oscar Wilde’s classic exploration of aesthetics and morality in The Picture of Dorian Grey by Professor Roger Luckhurst of Birkbeck, University of London.

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Folk Gothic: Polish Vampires Helped into their Graves by Hoards of Villagers and Their Pitch Forks

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The Wild Evolution of Vampires, From Bram Stoker to Dracula Untold

Devon Maloney gives a brisk but useful survey of the changes in the image of the literary and cinematic vampire.

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Bram Stoker: Dracula – audio and video guides

Very useful audio and video guides to Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Roger Luckhurst, editor of the Oxford World’s Classics edition.

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Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night

An account of that seminal moment when both Frankenstein and the literary vampire were born; part of BBC4’s season on Gothic. I’ve not watched this yet (not having a TV), but the very erudite Dr Angela Wright of the University … Continue reading

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Dale Townshend, ‘An introduction to Ann Radcliffe’

An excellent and illuminating piece by Dr Dale Townshend, Senior Lecturer in Gothic and Romantic Literature at the University of Stirling, on the work of Ann Radcliffe, one of the pioneers of the Gothic novel.

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Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night

This looks excellent, though I’ve not watched it yet! The inspiring Dr Angela Wright from the University of Sheffield contributes to this programme on the origins of the literary vampire and of Frankenstein, which will be on iPlayer for the … Continue reading

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I Wonder: BBC Timeline of Gothic Fiction

Brilliant Timeline of Gothic Fiction with some pleasing visuals and useful links. Just in time for Halloween (Dr Catherine Spooner, contributor to OGOM, was the BBC’s consultant)

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The International Fairy-Tale Filmography

A useful resource here: a filmography of films based on fairy tales. Adaptations of fairy tales are another strand of paranormal romance, particularly in YA fiction and children’s literature, and the film versions invite comparisons with literary reworkings.

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The Wild Evolution of Vampires, From Bram Stoker to Dracula Untold

A brief sketch of vampires in film and TV from Carmilla to Dracula Untold.

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