Charlotte Harper reviews Secrets of the Vampire, a new companion to a classic Gothic monster, written by Julie Légère and Elsa Whyte and illustrated by Laura Pérez. Deliciously detailed and darkly witty, Julie Legere and Elsa Whyte track through the world history of humanity’s darkest shadow in Secrets of the Vampire. The facts are relayed … Continue reading Book Review: Secrets of the Vampire: A Supernatural Sourcebook of Our Legend and Lore (2023)
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Servants and the Gothic (UWP)
University of Sheffield and Sheffield Gothic alum Kathleen Hudson has recently published the academic monograph Servants and the Gothic, 1764-1831: A half-told tale through the University of Wales Press. This monograph is now widely available through UWP and on Amazon.com. Students are also free to request copies of the book through their university library. Servants … Continue reading Servants and the Gothic (UWP)
Announcement: New publication
“The Pauper and the Provider: Servant Negotiations of Gender and Class in Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest” The Gothic genre has long been the realm of the ‘other’, a space where marginalized and liminal voices develop their moral and social selves and react to mainstream ideologies and values. While the most obvious examples … Continue reading Announcement: New publication
Review:’The Spirit of Revision: Lovecraft’s Letters to Zealia Brown Reed Bishop,’ edited by Sean Branney & Andrew Leman
There is a common conception of H. P. Lovecraft as the struggling artiste, as an author who refused to compromise his aesthetic vision in furtherance of professional profit. While it is true that Lovecraft did, indeed, consider his work to be on an artistic level far above the majority of work-for-hire pulp authors who published … Continue reading Review:’The Spirit of Revision: Lovecraft’s Letters to Zealia Brown Reed Bishop,’ edited by Sean Branney & Andrew Leman
Review: ‘The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Cthulhu Mythos’ by S. T. Joshi
To understand The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Cthulhu Mythos, we must consider previous book-length treatises on the work and legacy of H. P. Lovecraft. In 1972, Lin Carter published Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos, which was a weak, but nevertheless charming, discussion of Lovecraft’s influence. However, Carter’s work was marred by … Continue reading Review: ‘The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Cthulhu Mythos’ by S. T. Joshi
Review: ‘Lovecraft & a World in Transition: Collected Essays on H. P. Lovecraft’ by S. T. Joshi
Greeting Goths! In preparation for the Manchester Gothic Festival starting next week (See the full program at: https://www.hssr.mmu.ac.uk/gothicmmu/gothic-manchester-festival-2015/) we thought we'd celebrate one of our favorite weird fiction authors in keeping with the Festival's theme: "What Lies Beneath?" H.P. Lovecraft is an author who wrote extensively about the horrors that lurk beneath the surface, and … Continue reading Review: ‘Lovecraft & a World in Transition: Collected Essays on H. P. Lovecraft’ by S. T. Joshi
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