Tag Archives: Gothic novel

Maria Cohut, ‘Review: Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright’

Posted on 16th October 2015 by William the Bloody

Chris Riddel’s Goth Girl books are great fun, appealing to both young people and older people versed in literary knowledge. They’re wittily, pleasurably intertextual. Maria Cohut of the University of Warwick has written an enticing review here on the latest … Continue reading →

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An Exploration of Eighteenth Century and Victorian Gothic Literature Displays With the Exhibition Curators

Posted on 16th October 2015 by William the Bloody

If you not yet seen the fabulous Darkness and Light Exhibition on Gothic culture at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, do go if you can. But why not go along to this event on 23 October (15.00-16.00) and see … Continue reading →

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The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography (2015)

Posted on 15th October 2015 by firekrank

Over on the OGOM facebook page, Stacey Abbott has drawn our attention to the recently published The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography (2015) as an incredibly useful resource (and Dr. Abbott know what she is talking … Continue reading →

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Gothic Manchester Festival 2015

Posted on 15th October 2015 by William the Bloody

Just a reminder that this fabulous series of events, Manchester Metropolitan University’s Gothic Festival, is on next week. There is the brilliant Darkness and Light exhibition at the beautifully Gothic John Rylands Library, which has been on a while; there … Continue reading →

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Horror in the Arts – Free Articles!

Posted on 14th October 2015 by firekrank

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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Darkness and Light: Exploring the Gothic exhibition, John Rylands Library, Manchester

Posted on 1st August 2015 by William the Bloody

Being in the centre of Manchester for the first time in months, I thought I’d drop in to the beautiful Victorian neo-Gothic John Rylands Library and see the Darkness and Light: Exploring the Gothic exhibition. It’s very, very good, with … Continue reading →

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Barry Forshaw ‘Sex and Death: Vampires from Coleridge to Hammer’

Posted on 23rd March 2015 by William the Bloody

Instructive extract from Barry Forshaw’s British Gothic Cinema on the vampire theme in Gothic fiction from Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’ through ‘Carmilla’ and dracula to its incarnation in cinema.

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Suzanne Burdon, ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the birth of modern science’

Posted on 25th January 2015 by William the Bloody

A stimulating discussion of the attitude towards science in Mary Shelley’s Fankenstein: Mary Shelley wrote ‘Frankenstein’ when she was just 18, and it is often read as a gothic horror story and prophetic warning about the dangers of taking science … Continue reading →

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Spine-chillers and suspense: A timeline of Gothic fiction

Posted on 24th January 2015 by William the Bloody

This is a concise but excellent timeline of the origins and development of Gothic fiction by the OGOM collaborator Catherine Spooner. It’s a very useful resource for anyone interested in Gothic culture, and we’ve also added it in the Related … Continue reading →

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Stephanie Gallon: An Interview with Dr Dale Townshend

Posted on 16th January 2015 by William the Bloody

Stephanie Gallon, from the Spectral Visions group at the University of Sunderland, conducts a fascinating interview with Dr Dale Townshend, Stirling University. Dale is an expert on the Romantic Gothic and the Gothic aspects of Shakespeare and is also the … Continue reading →

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