Dead Reckonings No. 21

Under new editorship and with a broader scope, the latest issue of the long-running journal from Hippocampus Press offers a bonanza of material for the enthusiast of Horror and the Weird in The Arts.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Bestarred with Fainting Flowers ..... Daniel Pietersen

Symbolism and Myth in the Work of R. Murray Gilchrist

 

The “V” Word ..... Jose Cruz

T. E. Grau, They Don’t Come Home Anymore

 

Shadows with Teeth ..... Darrell Schweitzer

Ellen Datlow, ed. The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 8

 

Existential and Ontological Horror ..... S. T. Joshi

Joel Lane, This Spectacular Darkness: Critical Essays, ed. Mark Valentine and John Howard

 

In the Heliotherapy Ward ..... Amber Doll Diaz

David F. Sandberg, Lights Out

 

The Horror in the Card Catalog . S. T. Joshi

Darrell Schweitzer and John Ashmead, ed. Tales from the Miskatonic University Library

 

Southern Discomfort and the Ubiquitous Undead ..... Stephanie Graves

Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, and Daniel Cross Turner, ed. Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture

 

Forever I’m Alone with You ..... Jose Cruz

Lynda E. Rucker, You’ll Know When You Get There

 

Stranger Things: A Conversation between Bev Vincent and Hank Wagner

 

Terrors of the Natural World ..... S. T. Joshi

Richard Gavin, Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness

 

Ramsey’s Rant: Remembering Kirby ..... Ramsey Campbell

 

Psychosexual Syzygy: Checking in at the Bates Motel ..... Gavin Callaghan

Bates Motel, Seasons 1 through 5

 

Terror for Children ..... Taij Devon

Aric Cushing, Vampire Boy

 

The Homely Commonplace and the Unimaginably Deranged: J. G. Ballard’s High Rise ..... Alexander Lugo

 

The Resurgence of Weird Magazines ..... Ashley Dioses

 

The Final Work of Mark Fisher ..... James Machin

Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie

 

SMASH EVERYTHING! Bobby Rhodes and His Demons

Nathan Chazan

 

THINKING HORROR: An Exchange with s. j. bagley ..... Alex Houstoun

 

Pastiches of Pastiches S. T. Joshi

Brian M. Sammons and Glynn Owen Barrass, ed. The Children of Gla’aki: A Tribute to Ramsey Campbell’s Great Old One

 

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