Categories
- Awards (1)
- Books and Articles (48)
- Call for Articles (17)
- CFP (Conferences) (28)
- Conferences (38)
- Creative Writing (3)
- Critical thoughts (115)
- Events (50)
- exhibitions (3)
- Fun stuff (60)
- Generation Dead: YA Fiction and the Gothic news (10)
- Interviews (5)
- Jobs (1)
- MA Reading the Vampire module news (13)
- News (4)
- OGOM News (23)
- OGOM Research (7)
- OGOM: Books of Blood (6)
- OGOM: The Company of Wolves (62)
- Press Coverage (14)
- Publications (21)
- Resources (58)
- Reviews (56)
- UH Reading the Gothic reading group (1)
- Uncategorized (18)
-
Recent Posts
Archives
Blogroll
- Beyond Twilight: Young Adult Gothic Fiction
- Daniel Waters's Blog
- IGA Postgraduate Forum
- Life on Magrs
- My So-called Undeath: My Life as a Zombie
- Reading the Gothic: UH Reading Group
- Shapeshifters in Popular Culture
- Spectral Visions (University of Sunderland)
- The Gothic Imagination (University of Stirling)
- The Kim Newman Web Site
- The Vampire Blog (Jennifer Williams)
- TheoFantastique
- Wellcome Collection Blog
Events
Related Links
- Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies
- Alyxandra Harvey
- Anne Rice
- Cynthia Leitich Smith
- Glen Duncan
- Holly Black
- International Gothic Association
- Isaac Marion
- Julia Kagawa
- Maggie Steifvater
- Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies (MMU)
- Marcus Sedgwick
- MEARCSTAPA
- Monsters and the Monstrous
- Monstrum
- Neil Jordan
- Open Graves, Open Minds
- Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural
- Robin McKinley
- Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association
- Spine-chillers and suspense: A timeline of Gothic fiction
- Stephenie Meyer
- Studies in Gothic Fiction
- The Centre for the History of the Gothic (University of Sheffield)
- The Dark Arts Journal
- The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies
- The Whedon Studies Association
- UK Wolf Conservation Trust
Meta
-
Join 12.6K other subscribers
Follow me on Twitter
My Tweets
Category Archives: Conferences
Nick Stead: The Company of Wolves
I know it’s a while since the fabulous Company of Wolves conference in September, but I’m still revelling in the memories. I’ve been a bit ill, and was exhausted after the conference, so my blogging has got a little behind. … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, OGOM: The Company of Wolves, Reviews
Tagged Company of Wolves, Werewolves, Wild children, Wolves
Leave a comment
Gothic Manchester Festival 2015
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
Posted in Conferences, Events
Tagged Film, Goth subculture, Gothic, Gothic novel, Horror Film, Paranormal romance, steampunk
Leave a comment
Further Details about the Company of Wolves visit to the UKWCT
I’m just posting some final details about the trip to the UK Wolf Conservation Trust. It looks like an excellent trip which will expand our discussions from the conference and help us understand the human impact on the wolf population. … Continue reading
Gothic Manchester Festival 2015, 23 October 2015, John Rylands Library, Manchester
The third Gothic Manchester Festival looks very exciting–music, art, events, films, Gothic reading, and a one-day conference (where I will be giving a paper). And it takes place in the beautiful neo-Gothic John Rylands Library. Following the success of the … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Events
Tagged art, Film, Goth subculture, Gothic, music, New Weird, steampunk
Leave a comment
CFP: Patrick McGrath Symposium, Stirling, January 2016
This looks like a brilliant conference at the University of Stirling on the author Patrick McGrath, one of the leading contemporary writers on psychological terror and horror. The conference will also be looking for 20 minute papers on asylums, madness, … Continue reading
Company of Wolves: one of the most talked about social justice issues of the day
Recent events suggest that Animal Rights is quickly becoming one of the most talked about social justice issues of the twenty-first century. Garry Marvin, Professor of Human and Animal Studies at the University of Roehampton will be opening up some … Continue reading
OGOM Company of Wolves Poster
So pleased with the art work for the OGOM Company of Wolves Conference. The posters are looking very attractive indeed. Hope you agree. We’re very excited to meet all the delegates and we cannot wait to Walk With Wolves!! Booking … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Events, OGOM News, OGOM: The Company of Wolves
Tagged Angela Carter, Companyof wolves, Werewolves
Leave a comment
Review of ‘Locating Fantastika’, University of Lancaster, 7th-8th July 2015
I have now been to enough conferences in my research area to start recognising people so that conferences become not only a place to proffer your work to other academics (flinching slightly when it gets to questions) but also to … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Reviews
Tagged adaptation, aesthetics, Fantasy, nature, Vampires, Werewolves
1 Comment
Dracula’s Transylvania, the Land Beyond the Forest
‘We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England, our ways are not your ways and there shall be to you many strange things’ (Bram Stoker) I was beyond excited to find myself in Transylvania recently, fully expecting a gothic … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Critical thoughts, Reviews
Tagged Dracula, Werewolves, Wolves
Leave a comment
Review of ‘Beliefs and Behaviours in Education and Culture’, West University of Timisoara, 25th-27th June 2015
Apologies for this being a little late with this review. It’s not because Sam and I got lost in Transylvania (though I think both of us would have liked to spend longer exploring Timisoara and the surrounding Romanian countryside). The … Continue reading