Coffin Boffin
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Associate Professor of Research @UniofHerts; Convener @OGOMProject; Botanist & Gothicist: Vampires, Werewolves, Angels, Yōkai. Gothic Fairies, Wolf Children
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THE INVISIBLE PRINCE The story of a Prince whose love is captured by Genii; making her only visible through a mirror. Exceptional image from H.J.Ford, Yellow Fairy Book, 1894 #FairyTaleTuesday
Congratulations to all our authors included in the long list for the Gothic Association's book prizes 2024
Michelle Houston Louis Bayman William (Bill) Hughes Coffin Boffin Dr Bill Hughes (William the Bloody) Marie Mulvey-Roberts
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We're thrilled to see five MUP books included in the long list for the Gothic Association's Book Prizes 2024 🥳
Congratulations to all our authors 👏👏👏👏
Michelle Houston Louis Bayman William (Bill) Hughes Coffin Boffin Dr Bill Hughes (William the Bloody) Marie Mulvey-Roberts
AN ANCIENTE MAPPE of FAIRYLAND newly discovered and set forth. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918. Printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son. Bernard Sleigh’s masterpiece is well worth gazing into #MythologyMonday
FAIRY FUNERALS Are fairies immortal or do they die? The Victorians believed in fairy funerals depicting fairy death scenes with fragile melancholy and wonder. ‘The Fairy’s Funeral’ by John Anster Fitzgerald, 1864; ‘Funeral Fairies’, Maximillian Pirner, 1888 #FolkloreSunday
DARK ORGINS OF THE VICTORIAN FAIRY free online talk, Wed 17 April, 1.30. Gothic has had an association with fairy from its inception. I'll be exploring how we lost our fear of fairies & how they came to be associated with spirits of the dead in folklore UH Research Office…
THE VAMPIRE by Rudyard Kipling. A haunting & macabre poem in which a hapless young man is beguiled by a female with white hands & a pale throat; in the closing lines she is seen dancing in a scarlet shroud. Privately Printed, Boston, 1898. Designed by E.J Clark #GothicSpring
Can fairies die? Why were they associated with the spirits of the dead? When did they go from foe to friend? ☠️🧚
Coffin Boffin's ‘Shadow Worlds: The Dark Origins of the Victorian Fairy’ will answer these + more at 1:30PM, 17 April!
Zoom link here 👇
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DARK ORGINS OF THE VICTORIAN FAIRY free online talk, Wed 17 April, 1.30. Gothic has had an association with fairy from its inception. I'll be exploring how we lost our fear of fairies & how they came to be associated with spirits of the dead in folklore UH Research Office…
PLANT NAMES FOR CURSING Bloody crane's-bill; Bastard toadflax; Devil's bit scabious; Fiddle dock; Nipplewort; Spotted me-dick; Stinking Iris; Hoary cress. 🎨Famous Curses by Elliott O' Donnell, 1929 #botanicalgothic #FairyTaleTuesday