Author Archives: Lucy Northenra

About Lucy Northenra

Dr Sam George, Coffin Boffin, Senior Lecturer in Literature, University of Hertfordshire, Convener Open Graves, Open Minds Project

Conference Report: CoronaGothic (30th June 2020)

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Lucy Northenra

Originally posted on Dr. Joan's Book Bazaar:
CoronaGothic The new research cluster, University of Macau Gothic, hosted the timely and urgent CoronaGothic conference online on the 30th June 2020. The primary organisers and opening speakers were Professor Nick Groom…

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Reading Group: Call for Proposals, Autumn 2018

Posted on September 23, 2018 by Lucy Northenra

Originally posted on Essex Myth:
Myth Reading Group Call for Proposals: Animals and Mythical Creatures Domenico Zampieri, “Virgin and Unicorn”, c. 1604–05, fresco in Palazzo Farnese, Rome (public domain) We are very pleased to announce that the theme for the…

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Review: Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Lucy Northenra

Originally posted on The Dark Arts Journal:
Werewolves, Wolves  and the Gothic Edited by Robert McKay and John Miller. (Wales: University of Wales Press, 2017. 272 pages). ISBN 9781786831026 The eleven essays in McKay and Miller’s Werewolves, Wolves and the…

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Gothic Blooms: The Dark Sunflower

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Lucy Northenra

Following my post on Bloody and Monstrous Flowers. I thought I would picture my gothic sunflower. I have grown black tulips in the past but this is much more beautiful and surprising. I have commented on flowers that are thought … Continue reading →

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Wolf Alice Late at the Library

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Lucy Northenra

There is a Late at the Library Fairy Tale and Wonderland Event at the BL on 21st November which looks really magical. You can see a performance of Wolf Alice and take part in some scarily dark adventures through mirrors … Continue reading →

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Bloody and Monstrous Flowers: These Tulips Should Be Behind Bars

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Lucy Northenra

There has been a lot of discussion about Poppies recently in relation to remembrance. I was outed as a botanist by a  journalist in The Independent  at the OGOM Company of Wolves conference because of my earlier work Botany, Sexuality … Continue reading →

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ITV This Morning: Frankenstein

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Lucy Northenra

Here’s some footage from ITV This Morning’s ‘History of Horror’ on Frankenstein with Charlie Higson, yours truly, Prof. William Hughes and Sir Chris Frayling. I seem to be the only one in the studio and they already had their narrative in place … Continue reading →

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Review of Gothic Manchester’s ‘What Lies Beneath’

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Lucy Northenra

There was a deep irony to my journey north for ‘‘What Lies Beneath’, the symposium to mark the Gothic Manchester Festival because what lay beneath the venue was a very big part of my youth – The Cornerhouse. Cornerhouse was … Continue reading →

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Black Dogs and Hell Hounds

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Lucy Northenra

Ted Hughes described this time of year as ‘The month of the drowned dog’ in his evocative poem ‘November’ where after long rain ‘the land  was sodden as the bed of an ancient lake/ Treed with iron and was bird … Continue reading →

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I Saw Three Witches

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Lucy Northenra

I saw three witches Asleep in a valley, Their heads in a row, like stones in a flood. Till the moon, creeping upward, Looked white through the valley, And turned them to bushes in bright scarlet bud. (From Walter de … Continue reading →

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