Tag Archives: Vampires

CFPs: Fairy tales and fantasy, The Neverending Story, theology, vampires, Asian Gothic, women and Satanism

Posted on 14th September 2021 by William the Bloody

Quite a few calls here for journal articles and chapters in edited collections. 1. CFP: Fairy Tales and Fantasy Fiction / Contes de fées et Fantasy, Fantasy Art and Studies journal. Deadline: 25 October 2021 (in French or English) For … Continue reading →

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Young Adult Gothic Fiction, Vampire Dystopia

Posted on 18th July 2021 by William the Bloody

Another excellent edited collection which I am grateful to be included in is now out from University of Wales Press: Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others, ed. by Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi (Cardiff; University of Wales Press, … Continue reading →

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Matizes do gótico: Three centuries of Horace Walpole – Two kinds of Romance

Posted on 18th July 2021 by William the Bloody

I’m very honoured to have my chapter ‘“Two kinds of romance”: Generic hybridity and epistemological uncertainty in contemporary paranormal romance’ included in this beautiful new book from Brazil: Matizes do gótico: três séculos de Horace Walpole, ed. by Júlio França … Continue reading →

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Corporeal Creations: Bodily Figurations of Creativity, Online Workshop – 24 March 2021

Posted on 22nd March 2021 by William the Bloody

You are warmly invited to attend the forthcoming workshop “Corporeal Creations: Bodily Figurations of Creativity,” to be held online via Zoom at Tübingen University on 24 March 2021. Please see the program below. The workshop will examine medieval and post-medieval … Continue reading →

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Events: Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, Gothic ocean, Byron, Polidori

Posted on 28th January 2021 by William the Bloody

Despite the pandemic isolation, scholars in Gothic and allied fields are finding creative ways to keep literary and cultural dialogue flourishing with on-line events. here are a few we’ve noticed: 1. BARS Digital Event: ‘The Late Mary Shelley’, 18 February … Continue reading →

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The Coffin Boffin’s Choice of Vintage Vampire Shorts

Posted on 31st October 2020 by Sam George

Here, in all their beauty and glory are my pick of the greatest vintage vampire shorts; seductive and predatory, terrifying and comic, vital and metaphoric, doomed and daring! View Post

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America’s first vampire was Black and revolutionary – it’s time to remember him

Posted on 30th October 2020 by William the Bloody

Article by Sam George, University of Hertfordshire The Black Vampyre is an early literary example of an argument for emancipation of slaves. Thomas Nast/Harper’s Weekly/The Met In April of 1819, a London periodical, the New Monthly Magazine, published The Vampyre: … Continue reading →

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The Black Vampyre: Gothic Visions of New Worlds #BeingHuman2020

Posted on 5th October 2020 by Sam George

We’re excited to invite you to our forthcoming event to explore Gothic dreams of new worlds and the creatures that inhabit them, notably Mary Shelley’s plague world, John Polidori’s vampyre, the Black Vampyre, and the ghosts of World War 1. … Continue reading →

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CFPs & Events: Gothic and contagion, fantasy and theology, Vampfest, disease, Ellen Kushner

Posted on 1st September 2020 by William the Bloody

A mixture of CFPs, calls for articles, and events concerning the Gothic and the fantastic. 1. Gothic in a Time of Contagion, Populism and Racial Injustice, Online March 2021 (date to be confirmed), Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, Canada. Deadline: … Continue reading →

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Return of the vampire: Stephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun and YA vampire fiction

Posted on 12th August 2020 by William the Bloody

The Open Graves, Open Minds Project began in 2010, in part as a response to Stephenie Meyer’s hugely successful Twilight series; a Young Adult vampire romance series, the first of which was Twilight (2005). We launched the Project with an … Continue reading →

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