WIN 3 BOOKS! Wolf-Girls Competition (International Entry)
A fantastic new competition from Hic Dragones...Enter now via the Rafflecopter widget below for a chance to win 3 wonderful paperbacks PLUS an exclusive WOLF-GIRLS tote bag!Wolf-Girls: Dark Tales of...
View ArticleCFP: Gender and Medieval Studies Conference 2015
Gender, Dirt and Taboo7-9 January 2015Bangor University‘to embrace a woman is to embrace a sack of manure’ Odo of ClunyThe Middle Ages are synonymous with dirt – bodily, spiritual, linguistic and...
View ArticleSummer Sale from Hic Dragones!
All paperbacks are £4.99 for the whole of July!To celebrate the publication of Hauntings: An Anthology later this month, all our titles are now just £4.99 (plus p+p). Check out our catalogue for more...
View ArticleHauntings: An Anthology - Launch Party
International Anthony Burgess Foundation3 Cambridge StreetManchester M1 United KingdomThursday, 31 July 20147-9pmCome and join us at the launch party for Hauntings: An Anthology, a new collection of...
View ArticleCFP: Manhood in Anglo-Saxon England
Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (MANCASS)Easter Conference 2015Hulme Hall, University of Manchester, UK7-9 April 2015Proposals for 20 minute papers on this topic are invited. Topics that the...
View ArticleOUT NOW: Prison Service Journal (July 2014, No. 214)
Special Edition: The Prison and the PublicContentsEditorial Comment: The Prison and the PublicDr Alana Barton and Dr Alyson BrownReview of ‘The Prison and the Public’ Conference, Edge Hill University,...
View ArticleOUT NOW: Hauntings: An Anthology (Hic Dragones, 2014)
A memory, a spectre, a feeling of regret, a sense of déjà vu, ghosts, machines, something you can’t quite put your finger on, a dark double, the long shadow of a crime, your past, a city’s past, your...
View ArticleCFP: Literary Margins and Digital Media
Seminar of the Academia Europaea and the University of Wrocław15–17 April 2015The Academia Europaea Knowledge Hub Wrocław and the University of Wrocław invite young scholars (PhD candidates and...
View ArticleOUT NOW: Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain (D.S. Brewer,...
Edited by Amanda Hopkins, Robert Allen Rouse and Cory James Rushton It is often said that the past is a foreign country where they do things differently, and perhaps no type of "doing" is more...
View ArticleCFP: Masculinities in the British Landscape
14-17 May 2015A multi-disciplinary, multi-period conference to be held at Harlaxton College, the British Campus of the University of Evansville, outside of Grantham, Lincolnshire. Keynote Speaker:...
View ArticleWIN 4 Books, including SIGNED books by Ramsey Campbell and Douglas Thompson...
Another Hic Dragones giveaway... this time with 4 fantastic books as a prize. Entry via the Rafflecopter widget below.Impossible Spaces, edited by Hannah Kate (published by Hic Dragones)Sometimes the...
View ArticleSome Historical Female Werewolves
I don't think it'll come as much of a surprise if I say that I enjoy writing and reading about female werewolves. However, every so often something gives you a moment of pause. I sometimes get asked by...
View ArticleCFP: Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages, c. 900-1500
Keltologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg8-10 April 2015Keynote speakers: Prof. Helen Fulton (University of York), Prof. Dr. Erich Poppe (Philipps-Universität Marburg) and Dr Sif Rikhardsdottir...
View ArticleCFP: Telling Tales: Manuscripts, Books and the Making of Narrative
The biennial conference of the Early Book Society 2015The next biennial conference of the Early Book Society will take place at the University of Oxford, from lunchtime on Thursday 2 July 2015 to early...
View ArticleOUT NOW: Journal of Popular Romance Studies (Issue 4.2)
Contents: Special Issue: The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia (Editor’s Introduction)by Hsu-Ming TeoThe Private and Public Life of Nellie Stewart’s Bangleby Annita Boyd“We have to learn to...
View ArticleVictorian Gothic Treats for Halloween
It's Halloween, and what better way to celebrate than with a bit of Victorian Gothic?Hic Dragones is having a one-day sale of complete collections of 3 excellent penny dreadfuls, perfect reading for a...
View ArticleReview of the Bram Stoker Internation Film Festival 2014 - Thursday
Whitby, 23-27 October 2014This is part one of a multi-part review. Part two coming soon!Content warning: this is a review of a horror film festival, and I will be talking in some detail about the...
View ArticleReview of the Bram Stoker International Film Festival 2014 - Friday
Whitby, 23-27 October 2014This is part two of a multi-part review. You can read part one here. Part three coming soon!For more information about the Bram Stoker International Film Festival, please...
View Article#lycanthrovember
As some of you might have seen, Hic Dragones have been talking a bit about #lycanthrovember, so I thought I'd do a quick blog post about it. #lycanthrovember was my idea, as basically a month-long...
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