Knowledge Commons | Horror | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/horror/ Activity feed for the group, Horror. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:34:11 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 e0064479a9e1ad597bf043d7b05b1373 Derek Johnston deposited Stephen Knight and History Seen Through a Gothic Lens in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888411/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 03:01:45 -0400 This paper is part of a developing project on Gothic historical television dramas: fictions set in the past that use a Gothic mode to emphasise not just historical traumas but the persistence of those traumas to the present day. Stephen Knight’s work shows repeated concern with the traumas of exploitative capitalism, particularly on masculinity, a…[Read more]

]]> 0 46136d4ecc30f2837cfbc59234364cfc Derek Johnston deposited Stephen Knight's BBC Dickens Adaptations and the Gothic Representation of History in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885898/ Sat, 11 May 2024 03:02:20 -0400 This paper examines the various adaptation frameworks operating in Stephen Knight's television adaptations of Dickens for the BBC: A Christmas Carol (2019) and Great Expectations (2023) as part of a larger project focused on how employing a Gothic mode in historical drama encourages considerations of the past as a place of trauma that is still…[Read more]

]]> 0 43c8671992088cf75aa354596c62ae3d Derek Johnston deposited The Palimpsest of Adaptation in Gothic Historical Dramas in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878829/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:00:29 -0500 This paper continues the early development of my current project into Gothic Historical Television Dramas, that is television dramas with a historical setting presented through a Gothic mode to emphasise their focus on traumas that are not only historic but which also relate to current issues. Here I am starting to consider the idea of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa4bb31b5896acb37bb49ab664827373 Lloyd Graham deposited Patriarchal Blood Rituals and the Vampire Archetype in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869559/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 03:00:06 -0500 Correspondences can be identified between (on the one hand) androcentric cosmogonies, ancestral misogyny and tribal blood rituals, and (on the other) the classical paradigm of vampirism, especially in its literary and on-screen flowering. Specifically, the initiatory culture-hero and the archetypal vampire both confer a haematologically-mediated…[Read more]

]]> 0 876639e43dba5a5b181bfdc43b2dacfa Derek Johnston deposited Adaptation and Mode in the Television Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018) in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864487/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 03:00:28 -0500 This paper presents some of the ideas central to my current developing research into the modes of historical television drama, particularly the Gothic mode. In focusing on the 2018 television adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock, the paper illustrates the idea of the Gothic mode in operation, considering its relationship to notions of historical…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4fffcb8b7318897d97fde24103dcd9c Derek Johnston deposited Confronting the Legacy of Historical Trauma through Gothic Historical Television Drama in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860266/ Sun, 01 Oct 2023 03:01:15 -0400 This paper examines the use of the Gothic mode in historical television drama to suggest it is used to emphasise engagement with historical traumas, and suggest that these traumas still have relevance today. This emphasis works by engaging with the associations that are acquired around the Gothic mode through experience, recognising the aesthetic…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e05170cea0e5c2944af15db071a5d68 Jonathan Rose started the topic CfP: Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative in the discussion Horror https://hcommons.org/groups/horror/forum/topic/cfp-spectacle-and-empathy-the-role-of-excessive-embodyment-in-narrative/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 14:45:34 -0400 CfP for seminar session at NeMLA 2024, 7 to 10 March in Boston, MA

Narratives need bodies. Stories are populated by characters whose bodies serve as focalizers for our experience of the narrated world. Certain genres, like body horror, pornography or fanfiction, are predicated on bodily excess, “spill[ing] out over the spectator and p…[Read more]

]]> 632a441d1eef579ad2f1808f22366f4a Vicky Brewster deposited Lesbian Lovers and Forbidden Caves: Sapphic Survival Horror in Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852526/ Sun, 23 Jul 2023 02:24:32 -0400 In 1894, Lord Alfred Douglas referred to homosexuality as “the love that dare not speak its name”, a phrase that describes the unmentionable nature of homosexuality in a period of time when sodomy was illegal. Even in the 21st century, there continues to be something unspeakable and forbidden about homosexuality. This paper equates the uns…[Read more]

]]> 0 0daf9241234c33bbfeeaeb2be97d7609 Eric Sirota started the topic New Movie: Frankenstein (musical) based on Mary Shelley's novel in the discussion Horror https://hcommons.org/groups/horror/forum/topic/new-movie-frankenstein-musical-based-on-mary-shelleys-novel-2/ Sat, 27 May 2023 04:49:35 -0400 I'm excited to tell you that my musical, "Frankenstein" that played Off-Broadway in NY for 3 years, was adapted for screen, with an expanded score and orchestration.  It was just released this week and is available on StreamingMusicals.com  or from the website https://TheFrankensteinMusical.com

]]> 52e6f6be6ff347b82fbf3d9d29e1d9a0 Derek Johnston deposited The Gothicisation of British TV Historical Drama in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831512/ Fri, 27 Jan 2023 02:24:24 -0500 This paper examines a strand in British television historical drama that presents what I term a "Gothicised" version of history. This actively engages with historical trauma as returning to confront its originating society, as the classic Gothic text represents the returning or ongoing effects of a traumatic past in the narrative present. In Peaky…[Read more]

]]> 0 602d54021a9a4b115708b42d99e80bb8 Derek Johnston deposited Gothicising Picnic at Hanging Rock in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831509/ Fri, 27 Jan 2023 02:24:07 -0500 This paper considers the 2018 television adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock as an example of Gothicised historical television drama, which uses the Gothic mode to present a past in a way that challenges our expectations of what prestige historical drama should be like, and to emphasise historical traumas and the way that they are still relevant…[Read more]

]]> 0 64cc331a49a5ff1915913e5b80cb2fd5 Derek Johnston deposited Winter and the Gothic Historical Television Drama in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827453/ Fri, 23 Dec 2022 02:24:15 -0500 Keynote paper.
This paper examines the connections between the winter season and Gothic historical television dramas. It defines Gothic historical television dramas as dramas with a historical setting that take on a Gothic aesthetic and emphasise themes of trauma which are active in the past and continue to be active in the present. It also…[Read more]

]]> 0 f7a1b8ae6186d42938bf21bcb308857a James Louis Smith deposited Public Humanities EcoGothic at the Coast in Ireland and Wales in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1785116/ Tue, 28 Jun 2022 02:25:01 -0400 The Gothic clings to Irish and Welsh coasts and finds voice through strange stories. Centuries of accumulated death and tragedy forms a dense web of sorrow with particularly prolific roots in the literature, songs, and stories of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These traditions resonate within the longer history of lives and vessels lost…[Read more]

]]> 0 5cae3dc0c84ccc152961fe15e955a4b0 Derek Johnston deposited Reading Past Reception: A Case Study of the BBC Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1772654/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 02:25:15 -0500 This paper draws on the letters and messages and newspaper clipping held by the BBC Written Archives Centre in relation to the 1954 adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four as a case study for considering how we understand the historical reception of programming. This production is particularly useful in this regard because it achieved a certain…[Read more]

]]> 0 5472bbff9c95bd740ef1751e911f87ad Derek Johnston deposited The Folk of Folk Horror in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1772647/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 02:24:14 -0500 ‘Folk horror’ has often been considered, following Mark Gatiss’ description of the genre, as centrally focused on a particular ‘obsession with the British landscape, its folklore, and superstitions’. While these elements are clearly significant, they become more problematic when opening up the genre to include texts from beyond Britain. Not only…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ba3e2c0fd46fd5929ffe33b1ad3f8ca Derek Johnston deposited Reading Folk Horror Through Nostalgia in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1732050/ Sat, 20 Mar 2021 02:35:29 -0400 This paper considers the use of Boym’s formulations of reflective and restorative nostalgia as a productive lens for viewing the tensions within folk horror texts and their appeals. Considering folk horror texts such as The Wicker Man, Midsommar and The Living and the Dead, the paper will demonstrate that Boym’s two conceptions help to draw out…[Read more]

]]> 0 490f6749c52be55c4fb5c01cbd5399cc Derek Johnston deposited Sadists and Readers of Horror Comics: : The BBC, 'Nineteen-Eighty-Four' and the British Horror Comics Campaign in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1710377/ Wed, 30 Sep 2020 02:23:52 -0400 This paper examines the responses to the 1954 BBC adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four, as held by the BBC Written Archives Centre, in the light of the British Horror Comics campaign of the mid-1950s.

]]> 0 263dc48ef75a7a7024aaf394eeb17996 Derek Johnston deposited Time and Identity in Folk Horror in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1704924/ Tue, 11 Aug 2020 02:24:17 -0400 Keynote presentation at the UK's first academic folk horror conference.

]]> 0 c9f898b93746096264113c316b69f937 Derek Johnston deposited Season, Landscape and Identity in the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1704921/ Tue, 11 Aug 2020 02:24:03 -0400 Invited research presentation given at the University of Reading, 8 October 2015.

]]> 0 1bdc68fd188e4ee5dd22324e75a186c1 Derek Johnston deposited The Consolations of Horror: Heritage and Tradition in the Televisual Haunted Country House in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1704694/ Sat, 08 Aug 2020 02:24:07 -0400 It has become a standard approach when considering screen presentations that incorporate the country house to examine them in the light of Andrew Higson’s formulation of the heritage drama, which presented an essentially conservative, depoliticised spectacle of grandeur, safely distanced from the reality of the majority of viewers. However, the c…[Read more]

]]> 0 d4179fbc7f6bafd2cc5f057dfddbc2e1 Eric Sirota started the topic Streaming version of Off-Broadway musical based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in the discussion Horror https://hcommons.org/groups/horror/forum/topic/streaming-version-of-off-broadway-musical-based-on-mary-shelleys-frankenstein-2/ Thu, 14 May 2020 13:43:30 -0400 My musical based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has been playing Off-Broadway in NYC for over 2-1/2 years (up until the pause caused by the health crisis).  It has had a great deal of interest from college and high school classes studying the novel, with groups attending the performances.
TheFrankensteinMusical.com

Even before covid, we had…[Read more]

]]> 0b6d5481f65357d3f2073a0d4ab02d4e Derek Johnston deposited Repositioning The Quatermass Experiment (BBC, 1953): Predecessors, Comparisons and Origin Narratives in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680096/ Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:26:42 -0500 While there has been a growing acknowledgement of the existence of earlier examples of television science fiction, the typical history of the genre still privileges Nigel Kneale’s The Quatermass Experiment (1953) as foundational. This was a significant production, and an effective piece of television drama, but it was not the first piece of B…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6e455f1fd89137bd27f37a9a98373e6 Derek Johnston deposited Migrating M.R.James’ Christmas Ghost Stories to Television in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680093/ Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:26:31 -0500 Each Christmas during his tenure as Provost of King’s College, Cambridge, M.R.James would take part in a ritual celebration of Christmas with students and colleagues which invariably culminated with the reading of a ghost story. This tradition drew on a long tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas that can be traced back through the l…[Read more]

]]> 0 495e9071eeb5f71d86bd599756e664ab Derek Johnston deposited The Broadcast Afterlife of the Christmas Ghost Story in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680090/ Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:26:21 -0500 There is a long tradition in the UK, in England in particular, of the Christmas ghost story. The most famous is probably Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, but close behind are the ghost stories of M.R.James. James wrote many of his stories as Christmas entertainments, but this link was reinforced in the 1970s w…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4fa31af6cd740eb7eabadcef0588bf8 Derek Johnston deposited Seasonal Horror Traditions and Reflecting on Fear in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680087/ Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:26:11 -0500 This paper focuses on UK and US traditions of seasonal horror at Christmas and Halloween to consider how they provide opportunities for reflection on the causes of fear at liminal times in the calendar. These liminal times contain numerous traditions dedicated to looking back and forward, such as end of year reviews, or addresses from heads of…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d995cf12c365d6f0856e351865b2a3a Bill Hughes deposited In the Company of Wolves: Wolves, Werewolves, and Wild Children, ed. Sam George & Bill Hughes – Book Launch and Film Screening, 29 February 2020, Odyssey Cinema, St Albans, UK in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676717/ Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:25:39 -0500 You are cordially invited to a special event to celebrate ten years of the Open Graves, Open Minds project and to launch our new book In the Company of Wolves: Werewolves, Wolves and Wild Children.
In the Company of Wolves presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project. It connects together innovative research from a variety…[Read more]

]]> 0 df16726802ed494f917ff02c6892ea0f James L. Smith deposited EcoGothic, Ecohorror and Apocalyptic Entanglement in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Tales of the Black Freighter in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663701/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:25:34 -0400 This essay explores the ecoGothic resonances of Tales of the Black Freighter, a dark
pirate tale embedded within Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' 1986-87
postmodern DC graphic novel. By providing a grim prism for themes such as nuclear
paranoia, the monstrous transformation of the self, and the horrifying possibilities of
scientific…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e25deb34f35341d3b65e39ab20e79e9 Caitlin Duffy deposited EGL 194: Intro to Film (Fall 2019) in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659901/ Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:25:31 -0400 This is the syllabus I've designed for my Fall 2019 undergraduate-level Introduction to Film course. I focused the course as a genre study of American horror films. I want my students to be able to consider the socio-political contexts of popular films and to detect and explain the arguments and worldviews produced by film.

]]> 0 8b368790f74eaeae97a030c8a4af9f0a Caitlin Duffy deposited “Live or die, make your choice”: American Survival Game Horror in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1658989/ Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:25:26 -0400 From the 2007 remake of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games to Adam Robitel’s Escape Room (2019), the survival game has become a recurring sub-genre of American horror cinema in the last twenty years; however, its haunting presence has yet to be fully analyzed.

The American survival game horror film is uniquely able to render neoliberal con…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed01ea2cb2322c1a2f9ffb346b234c36 Ian Rodwell deposited A warning to the curious: ghost signs as liminal memento-mori in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1658546/ Wed, 24 Jul 2019 16:25:45 -0400 This conference paper explores ghost signs: the faded adverts for brands, organisations and services that we see inked or carved on walls or above shops. I discuss: 1. the liminality of ghosts and ghosts signs – and the ways we materially engage with them 2. how they flex time and, in doing so, gift us an organisational warning 3. and how, as m…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d5239ba4fdca117e61da8255a1eadf2 Eric Sirota started the topic Frankenstein (musical) Off-Broadway, Still plating in the discussion Horror https://hcommons.org/groups/horror/forum/topic/frankenstein-musical-off-broadway-still-plating/ Mon, 08 Jul 2019 19:48:12 -0400 My musical, FRANKENSTEIN, based on Mary Shelley's novel, is still playing Off-Broadway, having been extended again through its 2nd complete year!
It now plays on Tuesday evenings at 7 PM, at St. Luke's Theatre (W. 46 & 8th Ave.)
TheFrankensteinMusical.com
(contact me for discount code!)

]]> 039d5dbd5f6abe54d3371e747fb5d6f0 Cecilia Abate deposited Sexual Violence in American Horror Story, Murder House through Hotel (Raw Data) (Ongoing) in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641788/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:40:53 -0400 A data representation of every incident of sexual violence in American Horror Story, Murder House through Hotel. Broken into 22 metrics, part of an ongoing mapping project. Covers victims/assailant count, genders of both, on screen/off screen representations, nonhuman entities, fatalities, and more.

]]> 0 900406c3ea369cc70535eb7fddd6b41e Derek Johnston deposited The Sublime Horror of the English Countryside in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637901/ Thu, 11 Apr 2019 16:27:40 -0400 This paper will explore the use of the English landscape as a source of sublime horror, particularly through a shift in perception from idyllic to ominous. Where Peter Hutchings has indicated the importance of the 'uncanny landscape' as a fairly stable location for wrestling with modernity, this chapter will investigate those moments of slippage…[Read more]

]]> 0 d61d1b8b39f4f704d1577cd4efe12c88 Derek Johnston deposited Rural Returns: Journeys to the Past and the Pagan in Folk Horror in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1630766/ Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:25:28 -0500 A central element of the core folk horror texts (The Wicker Man (1973), Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), Witchfinder General (1968)) is the idea of rural communities as retaining pre-Christian practices and beliefs. When uncovered by a modern outsider who is returning to the countryside, these revelations disrupt their world view. Folk horror texts d…[Read more]

]]> 0 1d33b85139846dc00d852e8d8683aa8a Derek Johnston deposited Understanding History and Causality through the Television Ghost Story in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1616832/ Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:27:39 -0400 This paper considers the ways in which the television ghost story serves to support understanding and interpretations of history, and particularly an understanding of causality. As Helen Wheatley has identified, the typical detailed period settings of the television Gothic operate as a form of ‘dark heritage’ drama, where, instead of the att…[Read more]

]]> 0 8a632691cadd55e03b80353b0f336233 Derek Johnston deposited Hybrid Time in 'The Living and the Dead' - IGA August 2018 in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615209/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:37:30 -0400 The ghost story typically presents an interaction of the past with the present, often in the form of ‘stone tape’ type repeats of an event from the past. The 2016 BBC series The Living and the Dead went beyond this to show the merging of multiple time streams, so people made choices in the ‘present’ because of influences from past and future,…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e422e7a2da39c3447dc3bdd29c25207 Derek Johnston deposited Hybrid Time in The Living and the Dead in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615158/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:25:24 -0400 The ghost story typically presents an interaction of the past with the present, often in the form of ‘stone tape’ type repeats of an event from the past. The 2016 BBC series The Living and the Dead went beyond this to show the merging of multiple time streams, so people made choices in the ‘present’ because of influences from past and future,…[Read more]

]]> 0 4a7741960c74257dd4f0d28862eff5df Caitlin Duffy deposited Cartography of the Imperial Mind: The Dangerous Forms and Reforms of Dracula in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615041/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:47:43 -0400 The late Victorian era was imbued with progressive scientific reform and palpable anxiety regarding the future of the British empire. These two topics may seem distinct, but they find mutual expression in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, in which the soulless Count travels from Transylvania (literally, “beyond the forest”) and invades Engla…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8b6a72761885c2b548a0472416680f5 Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: American Ecogothic at NeMLA in the discussion Horror https://hcommons.org/groups/horror/forum/topic/cfp-american-ecogothic-at-nemla/ Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:45:03 -0400 Leslie Fiedler describes American fiction as “bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction… a literature of darkness and the grotesque in a land of light and affirmation” (Love and Death in the American Novel, 29). However, for settlers within the early colonies and citizens of the young republic, the wilderness of the supposed New World…[Read more]

]]> 62c5fe8e545245465c86cb643a0c3bee Javier Arturo Velásquez Ruiz deposited La literatura gótica no es el antagonista en la historia de los valores ilustrados in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1607892/ Sun, 06 May 2018 04:31:22 -0400 The gothic literature is not necessarily the antagonist in the history of the Enlightenment values.

]]> 0 1e92d0901b3bdb9f5608dbd7dd135b81 Bill Hughes deposited OGOM & Supernatural Cities present: The Urban Weird: Full Programme in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1604474/ Mon, 26 Mar 2018 04:12:32 -0400 The conference will explore the image of the supernatural city as expressed in narrative media from a variety of epochs and cultures. It will provide an interdisciplinary forum for the development of innovative and creative research and examine the cultural significance of these themes in all their various manifestations. As with previous OGOM…[Read more]

]]> 0 3995464401a90daeac0830a8903d4cba Eric Sirota posted an update in the group Horror: My musical based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, is e […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1602387/ Fri, 02 Mar 2018 15:45:14 -0500 My musical based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, is entering its 6th month as an open-ended Off-Broadway production at St. Luke’s Theatre in the heart of the theatre district. http://www.TheFrankensteinMusical.com
“Frankenstein” plays on Monday nights at 7 PM.
“..it is a success of a show that should be considered something great in the realm of musica…[Read more]

]]> 0 f31ec649b9097498737e8f08c3dc00b2 Eric Sirota posted an update in the group Horror: I wrote a musical based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594790/ Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:53:18 -0500 I wrote a musical based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which is playing in NY. It is having an open-ended Off-Broadway production at St. Luke's Theatre in the heart of the theatre district.
"Frankenstein" plays on Monday nights at 7 PM.
While an adaptation, I try to honor the source material.

Info is here: http://www.TheFrankensteinMusical.com

(This…[Read more]

]]> 0 4707c64499f4db45a83792dd5e8a7348 Bill Hughes deposited ‘But by blood no wolf am I’: Language and Agency, Instinct and Essence – Transcending Antinomies in Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver trilogy in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1593276/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 05:38:59 -0500 Young Adult dark romance is often more questioning than its adult counterpart; different, less constraining commercial imperatives are perhaps at work, or readers’ expectations less fixed. This chapter will show how, woven into a sensitive coming-of-age narrative of first love and familial problems, Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver trilogy performs a f…[Read more]

]]> 0 bdd7b700c209d043309166d0806c281a Bill Hughes deposited ‘Legally Recognised Undead’: Essence, Difference, and Assimilation in Daniel Waters’s Generation Dead in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1593273/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 05:38:57 -0500 Vampire literature since Le Fanu at least has been conspicuously about ‘Otherness’, that crucial term of identity politics, and has thus rendered itself most obligingly to interpretation in terms of those politics—at least, since the rise of that paradigm in cultural analysis, it has been available to be read that way. Appearing deceptively human…[Read more]

]]> 0 a7cd8fc60e9bc27c3164ac9ffdf6e070 Bill Hughes started the topic CFP: OGOM & Supernatural Cities present: The Urban Weird in the discussion Horror https://hcommons.org/groups/horror/forum/topic/cfp-ogom-supernatural-cities-present-the-urban-weird-2/ Tue, 19 Sep 2017 00:33:12 -0400 CFP: OGOM & Supernatural Cities present:  The Urban Weird

University of Hertfordshire, 6-7 April, 2018

 

The OGOM Project is known for its imaginative events and symposia, which have often been accompanied by a media frenzy. We were the first to invite vampires into the academy back in 2010. Our most recent endeavour, Company of Wolves:…[Read more]

]]> 2a8f2b10a65e924d572af41738c79adf Sherry Truffin deposited Joyce Carol Oates Revisits the Schoolhouse Gothic in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1579452/ Tue, 22 Aug 2017 01:03:19 -0400 The “Schoolhouse Gothic” represents teachers, students, and academic institutions using Gothic tropes such as the monster, the curse, and the trap. Joyce Carol Oates’s 2013 novel The Accursed both exemplifies and deviates from this tradition. Like other Schoolhouse Gothic works, The Accursed portrays the university as a place of mystified power…[Read more]

]]> 0 16205e73136b7f8f75d499fb7951a228 Sherry Truffin deposited Cre­ation Anx­i­ety in Gothic Metafic­tion: The Dark Half and Lunar Park in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1579449/ Tue, 22 Aug 2017 01:02:52 -0400 The Gothic metafiction of Stephen King and Bret Easton Ellis focuses on author-protagonists who fear what they create because their creations are re-creations, projections of their creator’s anxieties, some conventionally Gothic (the multiple/split self) and others specific to postmodern conceptions of subjectivity in general and authorship in p…[Read more]

]]> 0 187c30830b0134c091b063143eb898a7 Sherry Truffin deposited 'Gigan­tic Para­dox, Too … Mon­strous for Solu­tion': Night­mar­ish Democ­racy and the School­house Gothic in "William Wil­son" and The Secret His­tory in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1579446/ Tue, 22 Aug 2017 01:02:28 -0400 To review the history of the Gothic as a counter-Enlightenment discourse, albeit an ambivalent one, is to see the suitability, if not the inevitability, of the Gothic treatment of education and educators. Presumably benign institutions, schools may seem more like unfeeling bureaucracies, brainwashing factories, militaristic zones, or lawless waste…[Read more]

]]> 0 34b1af3053cfdbc6580bf7bc5e966c88 Sherry Truffin deposited Zom­bies in the Class­room: Edu­ca­tion as Con­sump­tion in Two Nov­els by Joyce Carol Oates in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1579443/ Tue, 22 Aug 2017 01:02:04 -0400 To review the history of the Gothic as a counter-Enlightenment discourse is to see the suitability, if not the inevitability, of the Gothic treatment of education and educators. Schools and schoolteachers are keepers and transmitters of enlightenment. At the same time, schools and teachers are figures of power. They decide when children work, when…[Read more]

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