The Ideological System Behind the Musical Experiments

The new edition of The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies is available here: http://irishgothichorrorjournal.homestead.com/ Look out in particular for Dale Townshend's article on 'T. J. Horsley Curties and Royalist Gothic: The Case of The Monk of Udolpho (1807)' and for a review by Stuart Lindsay (one of the current students in our MLitt in the Gothic Imagination) of 'Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines'.

Catherine Spooner, Lancaster University, will post in mid July

Gothic in the Twenty-first Century

Frida Hansen, editor of Standart, a Danish literary magazine, is looking for international contributors for a theme section on Gothic fiction in a 2009-issue of Standart. Contributions will be translated into Danish. They are looking for short (1200-1800-word) essays that describe the Gothic -  beyond the historical genre. Contributions could include interpretations of narratives, novels or films, presentations of authors or general overviews. What defines Gothic horror? How can we describe the Gothic today? Should the Gothic be considered an aesthetics or a mode of writing? If you

All-singing, all-dancing undead from Austria