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Hughes, W and Smith, A, eds. (2019) Suicide and the Gothic. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9781526120083

Hughes, W and Heholt, R, eds. (2018) Gothic Britain: dark places in the provinces and margins of the British Isles. University of Wales Press, Cardiff. ISBN 9781786832337

Hughes, W (2018) Key concepts in the Gothic. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474405539

Hughes, W (2015) That devil's trick: hypnotism and the Victorian popular imagination. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9780719074837

Smith, A and Hughes, W, eds. (2013) EcoGothic. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9780719086571

Hughes, W (2012) Historical dictionary of Gothic literature. Scarecrow Press, Lanham Md. ISBN 9780810872288

Hughes, W, Punter, D and Smith, A, eds. (2012) The encyclopedia of the Gothic. Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 9781405182904

Smith, A and Hughes, W, eds. (2012) The Victorian Gothic: an Edinburgh companion. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748642496

Hughes, W and Smith, A (2009) Queering the Gothic. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9780719078156

Hughes, W (2009) Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula': a reader's guide. Continuum, London. ISBN 9780826495372

Hughes, W (2008) Bram Stoker: Dracula. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781403987785

Hughes, W and Dalby, R (2004) Bram Stoker: a bibliography. Desert Island Books. ISBN 1874287759

Hughes, W and Smith, A (2002) Empire and the Gothic: the politics of genre. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780333984055

Hughes, W, Mason, D and Smith, A, eds. (2002) Fictions of unease: the Gothic from Otranto to The X–Files. Sulis Press, Bath. ISBN 9780952685678

Hughes, W, ed. (2001) Bram Stoker's 'The lady of the shroud'. Desert Island Books, Westcliff-on-Sea. ISBN 1874287228

Hughes, W (2000) Beyond 'Dracula': Bram Stoker's fiction and its cultural context. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780333740347

Hughes, W and Smith, A, eds. (1998) Bram Stoker: history, psychoanalysis, and the Gothic. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780333720462

Hughes, W (1997) Bram Stoker (Abraham Stoker) 1847-1912 : a bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Guide (25). Victorian Fiction Research Unit, Department of English, The University of Queensland, Brisbane. ISBN 086776641

Hill, T and Hughes, W, eds. (1995) Contemporary writing and national identity. Sulis, Bath. ISBN 0952685604

Gibson, M and Hughes, W (2019) 'An unpublished letter from Bram Stoker to Laurence Hutton.' In: Gibson, M and Müller, S.L, eds. Bram Stoker and the late Victorian world. Clemson University Press, Clemson, SC, pp. 215-217. ISBN 9781942954644

Hughes, W (2018) 'The uncanny space of regionality: Gothic beyond the metropolis.' In: Hughes, W and Heholt, R, eds. Gothic Britain: dark places in the provinces and margins of the British Isles. University of Wales Press, Cardiff. ISBN 9781786832337

Hughes, W (2017) 'Dracula’s debts to the Gothic.' In: Luckhurst, R, ed. The Cambridge companion to Dracula. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Hughes, W (2016) '"The triumph of nature": reading the West Coast sunset in Bram Stoker’s 'The snake’s pass’.' In: Heholt, R and Downing, N, eds. Haunted landscapes: super-nature and the environment. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD, pp. 215-226. ISBN 9781783488810

Hughes, W (2016) 'The un-death of the author: the fictional afterlife of Bram Stoker.' In: Wynne, C, ed. Bram Stoker and the Gothic: formations and transformations. Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 207-221. ISBN 9781137465030

Hughes, W (2016) 'Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927).' In: McCarthy, E and Murphy, B.M, eds. Lost souls of horror and the Gothic: fifty-four neglected authors, actors, artists and others. McFarland, Jefferson, NC. ISBN 9781476663142

Hughes, W (2015) '“In a glass reflectively”: self-conscious parody in J. S. Le Fanu’s 'The room in the Dragon Volant'.' In: Alliata, M.V and Rimondi, G, eds. Dal gotico al fantasico: tradizioni, riscritture e parodie. Cafoscarina, Venice, pp. 43-54. ISBN 9788874533871

Hughes, W (2015) '“For Ireland’s good”: the reconstruction of rural Ireland in Bram Stoker’s 'The snake’s pass'.' In: Buchelt, L.C, ed. The snake’s pass: a critical edition, [by] Bram Stoker. Syracuse University Press, New York, pp. 287-298. ISBN 9780815634249

Hughes, W (2014) 'The Gothic.' In: Latham, R, ed. The Oxford handbook of science fiction. Oxford handbooks of literature . Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 463-474. ISBN 9780199838844

Hughes, W (2014) '“Rumours of the great plague”: medicine, mythology and the memory of the Sligo cholera in Bram Stoker’s 'Under the sunset’.' In: Killeen, J, ed. Bram Stoker: centenary essays. Four Courts Press, Dublin, pp. 114-130. ISBN 9781846824074

Hughes, W (2013) '"As much a family as anyone could be, anywhere ever": revisioning the family in Poppy Z. Brite’s 'Lost souls'.' In: Andeweg, A and Zlosnik, S, eds. Gothic kinship. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 174-195. ISBN 9780719088605

Hughes, W (2013) 'Sexuality and the American vampire.' In: Crow, C.L, ed. A companion to American gothic. Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 340-352. ISBN 9780470671870

Hughes, W (2013) '“A strange kind of evil”: superficial paganism and false ecology in 'The wicker man'.' In: Hughes, W and Smith, A, eds. EcoGothic. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 58-71. ISBN 9780719086571

Hughes, W (2012) '‘Blackwood, Algernon’; Blood’; ‘Criticism’; ‘Hypnotism’; Kipling, Rudyard’; ‘Lovecraft, H. P.’; ‘Medicine and the Gothic’; Stoker, Bram’; and ‘Village Gothic’.' In: Hughes, W, Punter, D and Smith, A, eds. The encyclopedia of the Gothic. Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 9781405182904

Hughes, W (2012) 'Victorian medicine and the Gothic.' In: Hughes, W and Smith, A, eds. The Victorian Gothic: an Edinburgh companion. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 186-201. ISBN 9780748642496

Hughes, W (2012) 'Fictional vampires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.' In: Punter, D, ed. A new companion to the Gothic. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 197-210. ISBN 9781405198066

Hughes, W (2011) '“I resolved to play the part of a good samaritan”: Gothic metafiction in J. S. Le Fanu’s 'The room in the Dragon Volant'.' In: Crawford, G, Rockhill, J and Showers, B.J, eds. Reflections in a glass darkly: essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Hippocampus Press, New York, pp. 390-405. ISBN 9781614980056

Hughes, W (2010) '‘Animal Magnetism (1788) by Elizabeth Inchbald’; ‘Crabbe, George (1754-1832)’; and ‘Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley’.' In: Maunder, A, ed. Encyclopedia of literary romanticism. Facts on File, New York. ISBN 9780816074174

Hughes, W (2009) '‘M. R. James’; ‘Bram Stoker’; Gothic medicine’; and ‘Vampire'.' In: Mulvey-Roberts, M, ed. The handbook of the Gothic. 2nd ed. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230008533

Hughes, W (2009) 'The redemptive degenerate on the Montmartre omnibus: perverse eugenics and French decadence in Marie Corelli's "Wormwood".' In: Duperray, M, ed. Gothic N.E.W.S.: exploring the gothic in relation to new critical perspectives and the geographical polarities of north, east, west and south. Michel Houdiard, Paris, pp. 189-201. ISBN 9782356920089

Hughes, W (2009) '"The taste of blood meant the end of aloneness": vampires and gay men in Poppy Z. Brite’s 'Lost souls'.' In: Smith, A and Hughes, W, eds. Queering the Gothic. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 189-201. ISBN 9780719078156

Hughes, W (2008) '"Who is the third who walks always beside you?" Eliot, Stoker and Stetson in 'The waste land'.' In: Horner, A and Zlosnik, S, eds. Le Gothic: influences and appropriations in Europe and America. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 151-165. ISBN 9780230517646

Hughes, W (2007) 'On the sanguine nature of life: blood, identity and the vampire.' In: Bak, J, ed. Post/modern Dracula: from Victorian themes to postmodern praxis. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pp. 3-12. ISBN 9781847182005

Hughes, W (2007) 'Habituation and incarceration: mental physiology and asylum abuse in 'The woman in white' and 'Dracula'.' In: Wilkie Collins: interdisciplinary essays. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pp. 136-148. ISBN 978-1-8471-8109-1

Hughes, W (2007) 'Introduction.' In: Bram Stoker: Dracula. Artswork Books, Bath. ISBN 9780954564872

Hughes, W (2006) 'Gothic criticism: a survey.' In: Powell, A and Smith, A, eds. Teaching the Gothic. Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 10-28. ISBN 9781403949301

Hughes, W (2005) 'The sanguine economy: blood and the circulation of meaning in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula'.' In: Menegaldo, G and Sipière, D, eds. Dracula: l'oeuvre de Bram Stoker et le film de Francis F. Coppola. Ellipses, Paris, pp. 83-96. ISBN 9782729825331

Hughes, W (2005) 'Delusions of pallor: sanguine depletion, eroticism and the economics of blood in 'Dracula'.' In: Fierobe, Claude, ed. Dracula: mythe et métamorphoses. Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, pp. 123-188. ISBN 2859399313

Hughes, W (2004) 'Genre.' In: Horowitz, M, ed. The new dictionary of the history of ideas. Charles Scribner's Sons, Detroit, MI, pp. 912-918. ISBN 9780684313771

Hughes, W (2004) 'Bram Stoker: a biographical introduction.' In: Hughes, W and Dalby, R, eds. Bram Stoker: a bibliography. Desert Island Books, Westcliff-on-Sea, pp. 32-43. ISBN 9781874287759

Hughes, W (2004) 'Dracula and other novels: reviewing Stoker’s fiction, 1882-1912.' In: Hughes, W and Dalby, R, eds. Bram Stoker: a bibliography. Desert Island Books, Westcliff-on-Sea, pp. 13-31. ISBN 9781874287759

Hughes, W (2004) 'A biography of Bram Stoker.' In: Miller, E, ed. Dictionary of literary biography: Bram Stoker's Dracula: a documentary volume. Gale, New York, NY, pp. 7-16. ISBN 9780787668419

Hughes, W (2004) '”The triumph of nature”: reading the west coast sunset in Bram Stoker’s 'The snake’s pass'.' In: Sammels, N, ed. Beyond borders : IASIL essays in modern Irish writing. Sulis Press, Bath. ISBN 9780954564827

Hughes, W (2003) 'Habituation and incarceration: mental physiology and asylum abuse in two Gothic novels.' In: Sayer, K and Mitchell, R, eds. Victorian Gothic. Leeds centre working papers in Victorian studies, 6 . Trinity and All Saints College, Horsforth. ISBN 9780954015923

Hughes, W and Smith, A (2003) 'Introduction: Enlightenment Gothic and postcolonialism.' In: Hughes, W and Smith, A, eds. Empire and the Gothic: the politics of genre. Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9780333984055

Hughes, W (2002) '"The fighting quality": physiognomy, masculinity and degeneration in Bram Stoker's later fiction.' In: Hughes, W, Mason, D and Smith, A, eds. Fictions of unease: the Gothic from Otranto to The X-Files. Sulis, Bath, pp. 119-131. ISBN 9780952685678

Hughes, W (2002) 'A singular invasion: revisiting the postcolonialism of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'.' In: Smith, A and Hughes, W, eds. Empire and the Gothic: the politics of genre. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 88-102. ISBN 9780333984055

Hughes, W (2001) 'Fictional vampires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.' In: Punter, D, ed. Companion to the Gothic. Blackwell companions to literature and culture . Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 143-154. ISBN 9780631231998

Hughes, W (2001) '”A huge prophetic melodrama of the Near East”: reading Bram Stoker’s 'The lady of the shroud'.' In: Hughes, W, ed. Bram Stoker's 'The lady of the shroud'. Desert Island Books, Westcliff-on-Sea, pp. 6-14. ISBN 1874287228

Hughes, W (1999) '"A noble manliness": chivalry and masculinity in Bram Stoker's 'The snake's pass'.' In: Sammells, N and Marshall, A, eds. Irish encounters: poetry and prose since 1890. Sulis Press, Bath, pp. 16-27. ISBN 9780952685647

Hughes, W and Smith, A (1998) 'Bram Stoker, the Gothic and the development of cultural studies.' In: Hughes, W and Smith, A, eds. Bram Stoker: history, psychoanalysis and the Gothic. Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 1-11. ISBN 9780333720462

Hughes, W (1998) '“Terrors that I dare not think of”: masculinity, hysteria and empiricism in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula'.' In: Miller, E, ed. Dracula: the shade and the shadow - a critical anthology. Desert Island Books, Westcliff-on-Sea, pp. 93-103. ISBN 9781874287100

Hughes, W (1998) '"For Ireland's good": the reconstruction of rural Ireland in Bram Stoker's 'The snake's pass'.' In: Briggs, S, Hyland, P and Sammells, N, eds. Reviewing Ireland: essays and interviews from Irish Studies Review. Sulis Press, Bath, pp. 115-122. ISBN 9780952685654

Hughes, W (1998) '“It must be something mental”: Victorian medicine and clinical hysteria in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula'.' In: Stewart, B, ed. That other world: the supernatural and fantastic in Irish literature and its contexts. The Princess Grace Irish library series, 2 . Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross, pp. 52-64. ISBN 9780861404186

Hughes, W (1998) '‘M. R. James’; ‘Bram Stoker’, and ‘Vampire'.' In: Mulvey-Roberts, M, ed. The handbook to Gothic literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230008533

Hughes, W (1998) 'The madness of King Laugh: hysteria, popular medicine and masculinity in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula'.' In: Moody, N and Hallam, J, eds. Medical fictions. Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, pp. 226-235. ISBN 0952787803

Hughes, W and Hill, T (1997) '“For the blood is the life”: the construction of purity in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula'.' In: Hill, T, ed. Decadence and danger: writing, history and the fin de siècle. Sulis Press, Bath, pp. 128-137. ISBN 9780952685623

Hughes, W (1994) 'Profane resurrections: Bram Stoker’s self-censorship in 'The jewel of seven stars'.' In: Smith, A.L and Sage, V, eds. GothicK: origins and innovations. Costerus new series, 91 . Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 132-139. ISBN 9789051836363

Hughes, W (2013) 'Men, masons and melancholy: the singularly masculine ghost stories of Rudyard Kipling.' Victoriographies, 4 (1). pp. 5-23.

Hughes, W (2010) '“This strange personality that has been haunting you”: redefining ghosts and psychic doctors in Algernon Blackwood’s 'John Silence'.' Illuminati, 1. pp. 19-30.

Hughes, W (2008) '"My little American mind, my Indian heart": the intercontinental Gothic of Poppy Z. Brite's 'Calcutta, Lord of Nerves'.' Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society, 2 (2). pp. 19-28.

Hughes, W (2005) 'Your Jane Austen.' Jane Austen's Regency World, 15. pp. 36-37.

Hughes, W (2005) 'The origins and implications of J. S. Le Fanu's 'Green tea'.' Irish Studies Review, 13 (1). pp. 45-54.

Hughes, W and Smith, A (2003) 'Defining the relationships between Gothic and the postcolonial.' Gothic Studies, 5 (2). pp. 1-6.

Hughes, W (2003) '"To build together a new nation": colonising Europe in Bram Stoker's 'The lady of the shroud'.' Gothic Studies, 5 (2). pp. 32-46.

Hughes, W (2003) '"An angel satyr walks these hills": imperial fantasies for a post-colonial world.' Gothic Studies, 5 (1). pp. 121-128.

Hughes, W (2000) '"The raw yolky taste of life": spirituality, secularity and the vampire.' Gothic Studies, 2 (1). pp. 148-156.

Hughes, W (1997) '“Introducing Patrick to his new self”: Bram Stoker and the 1907 Dublin exhibition.' Irish Studies Review, 5 (19). pp. 9-14.

Hughes, W (1996) 'The sanguine economy: blood and the circulation of meaning in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula'.' Dracula: Insemination, Dissemination. pp. 49-64.

Hughes, W (1995) '“For Ireland’s good”: the reconstruction of rural Ireland in Bram Stoker’s 'The snake’s pass'.' Irish Studies Review (12). pp. 17-21.

Hughes, W (1995) '“So unlike the normal lunatic”: abnormal psychology in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula'.' The University of Mississippi Studies in English, 11-12. pp. 1-10.

Hughes, W (1994) '“Militant instinct”: the perverse eugenics of Bram Stoker’s fiction.' The Bram Stoker Society Journal, 6. pp. 11-9.

Hughes, W (1992) '“This mystifying medley of ancient Egypt and the twentieth century”: Bram Stoker and popular Egyptology.' The Bram Stoker Society Journal, 4. pp. 37-45.

Peters, F, Evans, M, Troyer, J, Wynne, A and Hughes, W (2016) Felony, fear and forensics. In: Captivating Criminality 3: Crime Fiction, Felony, Fear and Forensics, 23 -25 June 2016, Bath Spa University, Corsham, UK.

Hughes, W (2015) “A god-forsaken hole”: war work, labour migration, and the industrial gothic of L. T. C. Rolt. In: Gothic Migrations: The 12th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association, 28 July - 1 August 2015, Vancouver, Canada.

Hughes, W (2015) Mythologizing the author of 'Dracula'. In: The International Conference Beliefs and Behaviours in Education and Culture (BBEC), 25 - 27 June 2015, West University of Timisoara, Romania.

Hughes, W (2015) Low obscenity and lascivious attitudes: spectacle, seduction and male power in Victorian hypnotic séance. In: Sensational Men: Victorian Masculinity in Sensation Fiction, Theatre and the Arts, 18 April 2015, Falmouth University, Falmouth, UK.

Hughes, W (2015) Scripta manent: Bram Stoker and his publishers. In: Bram Stoker: Life, Letters, Manuscripts, 27-28 March 2015, University of Macao, China.

Hughes, W (2014) "In a glass repeatedly": self-conscious parody in J. S. Le Fanu’s 'The room in the Dragon Volant'. In: Gothic Fiction Between Tradition, Rewritings and Parody = Il gotico: fra tradizione, riscritture e parodie, 6 November 2014, Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy.

Hughes, W (2014) The Stoker lecture: Le Fanu and Stoker. In: The 2014 Bram Stoker Memorial Lecture, 24 October 2014, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland.

Hughes, W (2014) Tomb hunting before Tutankhamen: Bram Stoker and 'The jewel of seven stars'. In: LiveFriday: Egyptomania, 31 October 2014, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK.

Hughes, W (2014) Talking heads: reconfiguring post-mortem testimony in the ghost story. In: Sights and Frights – Interdisciplinary Conference on Victorian Visual Culture, Horror and the Supernatural, 19 June 2014, University of Sussex.

Hughes, W (2014) "The curse of Ireland in our own time": Bram Stoker and the stage Irishman. In: Bram Stoker's Visions of Ireland, 17 March 2014, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath.

Hughes, W (2013) The theatre of his beastly exhibitions: the erotic nature of early Victorian magnetism. In: Body and Mind: Mesmerism in Nineteenth Century Culture and Literature, 17 October 2013, Barts Pathology Museum, London.

Hughes, W (2013) "A receptacle for valuable curios": the Edwardian Egyptology of Bram Stoker’s 'The jewel of seven stars’. In: Visions of Egypt: Literature and Culture from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, 6 - 7 September 2013, Hull.

Hughes, W (2013) “And the dead spake–”: technology and the voicing of post-mortem experience in E. F. Benson’s short fictions. In: Gothic Technologies/Gothic Techniques: The Eleventh International Gothic Association Conference, 5 - 8 August 2013, University of Surrey, Guildford.

Hughes, W (2013) "The same, awful waxen pallor": physiology and vampirism in Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'. In: Spectral Visions II: The Revenge, 21 June 2013, St. Peter's Campus, University of Sunderland.

Hughes, W (2012) The un-death of the author: the fictional afterlife of Bram Stoker. In: Bram Stoker Birthday Symposium, 8 November 2012, University of Hull, Hull.

Hughes, W (2012) The romantic hero. In: European Romanticism: the Arts in Europe 1780-1840, 20 - 21 October 2012, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath, UK.

Hughes, W (2012) “Rumours of the great plague”: medicine, mythology and the memory of the Sligo cholera in Stoker’s 'Under the sunset'. In: Bram Stoker Centenary Conference: Bram Stoker - Life and Writing, 5 - 6 July 2012, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

Hughes, W (2012) A quiet act of plagiarism: Bram Stoker, Wallis Budge and 'The jewel of seven stars'. In: Open Graves, Open Minds: Bram Stoker Centenary Symposium, 20 April - 21 April 2012, Keats House, Hampstead, London.

Hughes, W (2011) A perverse domestic Gothic: revisioning the family in Poppy Z. Brite's 'Lost souls'. In: International Gothic Association conference, 2 August - 5 August 2011, University of Heidelberg.

Hughes, W (2010) On matters Gothic, then and now. In: Swindon Festival of Literature, 3 - 15 May 2010, Highworth Library, Swindon, UK.

Hughes, W (2009) Dickensian bliss: the understated Victorian stylistics of contemporary British crime fiction. In: The Novel in the Twenty-First Century: Text and Context, 29 November - 1 December 2009, University of Allahabad, India.

Hughes, W (2006) Vathek: a Gothic journey to the Orient. In: Bath Preservation Trust Lecture Series, 30 October 2006, Beckford’s Tower, Bath.

Hughes, W (2004) “The distilled essence of the town”: evolving vampires, degenerate mortals and the American urban experience. In: ESSE 7 Conference, 7 - 12 September 2004, University of Zaragoza, Spain.

Hughes, W (2003) “Something secretly creeping along within it”: the origins and implications of J. S. Le Fanu’s 'Green tea'. In: GothicEx/Changes: The Sixth International Gothic Association Conference, 17 - 20 July 2003, Liverpool Hope University College, Liverpool.

Hughes, W (2002) “All the world is a vampire”: degeneration, evolution and the postmodern revenant. In: The Persistence of Gothic: Exploring The Boundaries Of Gothic From 1750 To The Present, 12 October 2002, University of Greenwich, London.

Hughes, W (2000) "On the rim of the western sea”: sea voyages and the pioneering spirit in Bram Stoker’s later fiction. In: Textports 2000, 26 - 29 April, 2000, Liverpool Hope University College, Liverpool.

Hughes, W (1999) “Obscure diseases”: the multiple symptomatology of Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula'. In: The Second International Gothic Association Conference, 26 - 29 June 1995, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.

Hughes, W (1998) “A medical impasse”: sexuality and the vampire in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula’. In: Victorian Gothic Colloquium, April 1998, University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Hughes, W (1997) “Deadly pallor”: misdiagnosis and the death of Lucy Westenra. In: Stoker and Dracula….100 years later: The Seventh Annual Bram Stoker International Summer School, 29 June - 6 July 1997, St. Gabriel's Community Centre, Clontarf, Dublin.

Hughes, W (1995) “For the blood is the life”: fin-de-siècle secularism in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula'. In: Fins des Siècles: Writing and History, 1 July 1995, Bath College of Higher Education, Bath.

Hughes, W (1993) Famous impostors: true and false vampires in Bram Stoker’s fiction. In: The Third Annual Bram Stoker Summer School, June 1993, St. Gabriel's Community Centre, Clontarf, Dublin.

Hughes, W (1992) The language of the Bible in Bram Stoker’s 'Under the sunset’. In: The Second Annual Bram Stoker Summer School, June 1992, St. Gabriel's Community Centre, Clontarf, Dublin.

Hughes, W (2010) ‘Sanyo mirrored’ and ‘How do I love thee?’ [poetry]. Journal of Contemporary Literature, 2 (2). p. 173.

Hughes, W (2009) For Elaine [poetry]. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society, 3 (1). p. 111.

Hughes, W (2008) 'Dracula and the eastern question' by Matthew Gibson [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 16 (4). pp. 520-521.

Hughes, W (2007) 'Romances and gothic tales' and 'Albert of Werdendorff: or, the midnight embrace [1812]' by Sarah Wilkinson [book review]. Gothic Studies, 9 (1). pp. 97-100.

Hughes, W (2007) 'Literature and medicine in nineteenth-century Britain: from Mary Shelley to George Eliot' by Janis McLarren Caldwell [book review]. Women’s Writing, 14 (1). pp. 146-148.

Hughes, W (2006) 'The haunted landscape: folklore, ghosts and legends of Wiltshire' by Katy Jordan [book review]. Gothic Studies, 8 (1). pp. 105-109.

Hughes, W (2006) 'Poetical remains: poets’ graves, bodies and books in the nineteenth century' by Samantha Matthews [book review]. SHARP News, 15 (1). p. 10.

Hughes, W (2002) 'Cure, comfort and safe custody' by Leonard D. Smith [book review]. Victorian Studies, 44 (2). pp. 328-330.

Hughes, W (2001) 'The haunted mind: the supernatural in Victorian literature' edited by Elton E. Smith and Robert Haas [book review]. Victorian Studies, 44 (1). pp. 131-133.

Hughes, W (2000) 'The faithful tribe' by Ruth Dudley Edwards [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 8 (1). pp. 110-112.

Hughes, W (2000) 'The shoulder of Shasta' by Bram Stoker [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 8 (3). pp. 392-393.

Hughes, W (1998) Who are 'the people’? Unionism, Protestantism and Loyalism in Northern Ireland' edited by Peter Shirlow and Mark McGovern [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 6 (3). pp. 318-319.

Hughes, W (1997) 'Ghost stories and other horrid tales' selected and illustrated by C.W. Stewart [book review]. The Monk : Quarterly Newsletter of the International Gothic Association, 11. p. 6.

Hughes, W (1997) 'Marshall Hall (1790-1857): science and medicine in early Victorian society' by Diana E. Manuel [book review]. Victorian Studies, 41 (1). pp. 132-134.

Hughes, W (1997) The seventh Bram Stoker summer school (Clontarf, 1997) and Dracula ’97 (Los Angeles, 1997) [conference review]. Diegesis : Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions, 1. pp. 53-54.

Hughes, W (1994) 'We are the people' by Geoffrey Beattie [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 2 (6). pp. 40-41.

Hughes, W (1994) 'The edge of the union' by Steve Bruce [book review]. Irish Studies Review, 2 (8). pp. 47-48.