The third film version of Richard Matheson’s 1954 novella I Am Legend is due for release in December and I, for one, am looking forward to it. I remain intrigued by how vampirism and the trope of disease are re-worked in different periods, and after 63 years, Francis Lawrence’s vision will undoubtedly provide further insight into how American culture manages its home-grown ‘others’.   Interestingly, the first two film adaptations are ideologically opposed. Sidney Salkow’s The Last Man on Earth (1964), starring Vincent Price, is closest to depicting the mora

Bone-fires, Turnips, and Guisers

Spotlight on student research

  Professor Byron gives an insight into the literary history of the female vampire for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. The Woman's Hour website has the following synopsis: The women vampires who have long featured in the gothic imagination Hammer’s classic, early colour film Dracula is returning to cinema screens in a newly restored version. Alongside the cloaked figure of Christopher Lee’s Dracula, the camera lingers on his female counterparts - the Brides of Dracula, and the victims of his bite who join them. But, female vampires stalked the Eart

A re-enactment

At Stirling 1st Dec

Exciting new Gothic reference titles due out 2007-2008

Gothic related calls for conference papers and essay submissions

'The State of Modern Horror'

Miller and Eighteen-Bisang's facsimilie of Dracula notes