Tag Archives: Ghost stories

Happy New Year 2025! CFPs and Events

Happy New Year from OGOM to you all!! Sorry for the scarcity of posts but illness and workloads have taken their toll. But there are some exciting events for 2025 already in the world of the Gothic and fantastic, the … Continue reading

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Virginia Woolf, ‘A Haunted House’

Virginia Woolf’s (whose birthday is today) short story ‘A Haunted House’ is a superb modernist reworking of the classic Gothic haunted house tale. In its tenderness, it might be a fine example of what Catherine Spooner calls ‘happy Gothic’. https://www.charleston.org.uk/a-haunted-house-by-virginia-woolf/

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‘The Aural Aesthetics of Ghosts in BBC Ghost Stories’

This is a wonderful series of articles on ‘The Aural Aesthetics of Ghosts in BBC Ghost Stories’ which should be of interest to anyone who enjoyed radio adaptations and the power of sound in creating Gothic landscapes.

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