Tag Archives: Monsters

CFP: Trans-states: The Art of Crossing Over

Posted on 3rd February 2016 by firekrank

The University of Northampton is hosting a conference called ‘Trans-states: The Art of Crossing Over’ (9th-10th September 2016). Abstracts and proposals of 250-300 words should be sent in by the 20th March 2016. Further details can be found here.

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CFP: Promises of Monsters

Posted on 3rd November 2015 by firekrank

Temptation comes in the form of this CFP for the conference, ‘Promises of Monsters’ taking place in Stavanger, Norway on the 28th-29th April 2016. Abstracts are due by 15th December 2015.

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A Compendium of Monsters

Posted on 3rd November 2015 by firekrank

Over the Halloween period, the Wellcome Collection have put together an online compendium of monsters including the witch, zombie, werewolf, vampire and ghost. Though it’s quite tongue-in-cheek, I always think it is interesting to note what constitutes the stereotype of … Continue reading →

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UPDATE: Extended Deadline: Monstrous Messengers 17 Aug. 2015

Posted on 1st August 2015 by William the Bloody

Chapters still required for this collection of essays on ‘supernatural figures in children’s picture books and early readers’, edited by Leslie Ormandy. For this collection, three more papers from any discipline are welcome; however, advantaged are those focusing on a … Continue reading →

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Monstrous media/spectral subjects

Posted on 14th June 2015 by William the Bloody

Catherine Spooner, who has contributed to OGOM since the beginning, has co-edited a new collection of essays with Fred Botting: Monstrous media/spectral subjects: Imaging Gothic from the nineteenth century to the present (from Manchester University Press, who have an excellent Gothic … Continue reading →

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Dragon lovers: extract from Julie Kagawa’s Rogue

Posted on 2nd March 2015 by William the Bloody

One of the things that fascinates me while researching paranormal romance is the insight into the creation development, and interaction of genres. This genre itself is a mating between the monstrous (masculinised?) genre of Gothic horror and the feminine romance … Continue reading →

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‘The Terror of London’: Spring-heeled Jack and the Victorian Metropolitan Press, 29 January 2015, The Vaults Bar, Dirty Dicks, London

Posted on 25th January 2015 by William the Bloody

Karl Bell gives a talk on Spring-heeled Jack, the monster of Victorian urban legend who was further disseminated by melodramas and penny dreadful, and perhaps fuelled the development of vampire fiction (through Varney and other figures). For more information, the … Continue reading →

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monsters: the experimental association for the research of cryptozoology through scholarly theory and practical application

Posted on 25th January 2015 by William the Bloody

MEARCSTAPA–A useful site relating to the discussion of monsters and monstrosity and their cultural significance

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CFP: Monstrum – the peer-reviewed scholarly journal of monsters and all things monstrous

Posted on 21st December 2014 by William the Bloody

I’m very honoured to have been appointed to the Editorial Board of Monstrum, a new and exciting journal for the study of monsters and the monstrous from the Spectral Visions Press. Contributions are being sought for the inaugural issue, which … Continue reading →

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My hero: Mary Shelley by Neil Gaiman

Posted on 19th October 2014 by William the Bloody

The fantasy writer Neil Gaiman discusses the wonder of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

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