Tag Archives: Gothic

Happy New Year 2025! CFPs and Events

Posted on 7th January 2025 by William the Bloody

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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CFP OGOM Conference 2025: Sea changes

Posted on 21st November 2024 by William the Bloody

Sea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river Venue: The British Library, London, UK (and online) Date: 5–6 September 2025 Fabulous, enchanted beings, hybridly human and other, populate the expanses of water of … Continue reading →

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GOTHIC HERTS – new Gothic Reading Group starting this October

Posted on 15th October 2024 by Sam George

Gothic Herts is the home of a new reading group based at the University of Hertfordshire. It comprises undergraduate, postgraduate and research students and is dedicated to all things Gothic: We read Gothic-related material such as journal articles, poetry and … Continue reading →

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In the Company of Wolves: Gothic Reading 2024

Posted on 8th August 2024 by Sam George

We have received this lovely endorsement for our book In the Company of Wolves: Werewolves, Wolves and Wild Children. Sincere thanks to everyone involved in the IGA book prizes. This means a lot to OGOM! Sam George and Bill Hughes, … Continue reading →

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CFPs: Haunted Futures, folklore and Gothic, Blue Humanities, Dennis Wheatley, Gramarye

Posted on 27th July 2024 by William the Bloody

CFPs for conferences and edited collections: 1. Haunted Futures Conference: ‘The Future of Folklore’ University College Cork, 29-30 October 2024Deadline: 24 August 2024 The conference proposes to explore hauntings and ghosts as potent staging grounds for radical social change, which, … Continue reading →

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CONFERENCE: Bodies of Water: Mermaids, Selkies, and other Marine and Freshwater Hybrids

Posted on 20th June 2024 by Sam George

Exciting announcement claxon! We’re beyond excited to reveal that the next OGOM conference will be a collaboration with the Haunted Shores network called ‘Bodies of Water: Mermaids, Selkies, and other Marine and Freshwater Hybrids’. We are keen to explore the … Continue reading →

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Shadowlands: The Dark Origins of the Victorian Fairy, 17th April, 1.30 online

Posted on 9th April 2024 by Sam George

I will be giving a free online talk for the University of Hertfordshire’s Literature Research Seminar Series on Wed 17 April at 1.30. The concept of gothic has had an association with fairy from its inception; I’ll be exploring how … Continue reading →

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CFPs and Events: Horror, Gothic poetry, monstrosity and Romanticism, Gothic books, Georgic Gothic

Posted on 21st March 2024 by William the Bloody

1. Horror Studies Now: A Two-Day Conference Northumbria University, UK, 30-31 May 2024.Deadline: 31 March 2024 Researchers working in the broad field of “Horror Studies” are invited to submit abstracts about their research for an in-person conference, hosted by the … Continue reading →

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Ethical Gothic Studies

Posted on 6th March 2024 by Sam George

Some exciting news, OGOM is going to be editing a special edition of Gothic Studies on Ethical Gothic. This will add to the issues we have already edited on the vampire 15.1. (2013) Undead Reflections: The Sympathetic Vampire and its Monstrous Other … Continue reading →

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CFPs: Sex and scandal, 1980s and sequels, Victorian popular fiction, Tolkien

Posted on 24th December 2023 by William the Bloody

Some more conference CFPs, with deadlines in February 1. Dark Economies: Sex, Scandal, and Sensation Falmouth University, UK (in partnership with City University, Hong Kong), 2-4 July 2024Deadline: 14 February 2024 Sex, Scandal, and Sensation is an interdisciplinary and global exploration … Continue reading →

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