Weird Fiction Review #1
- Written by S. T. Joshi
- ISBN: 9781933618807
- Format: Softcover, Unknown page count
- Publish Date: November 1, 2010
- Dimensions: Unknown Dimensions
- Original Price: US$25
- Genre: Horror
- Publication Type: Journal
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About
Oshi (b. 1958) is an award-winning Indian American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of H.P. Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction. E has also written on crime novelist John Dickson Carr and on Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood and M. Ames, and has edited collections of their works, as well as collections of the best work of several other weird writers. He is a significant bibliographer, having compiled bibliographies of Lovecraft, Bierce, Dunsany, Ramsey Campbell, William Hope Hodgson, Ray Bradbury and Clark Ashton Smith.The Weird Fiction Review is an annual periodical devoted to the study of weird and supernatural fiction It is edited by S. T This first issue contains fiction, poetry, and reviews from leading writers and promising newcomers t features six original stories by Marc Laidlaw, Cody Goodfellow, Michael Aronovitz, Jason C.
Eckhardt, Joseph S ulver, Sr., and Clint Smith Among the articles, there are discussions of a forgotten story by Victorian weird writer R urray Gilchrist; Poe's The Imp of the Perverse ; Algernon Blackwood's novella A Descent into Egypt ; Neil Gaiman's treatment of the Beowulf story; a 16-page full-color gallery of art by David Ho; and much more.
Edition Details
- Limited to 500 copies.
- Edited by S.T. Joshi.
- Color artwork gallery by David Ho.
- Several new essays and stories.
- Sewn paperback with flaps.
Contents:
- Editorial (The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2010)
- The Weird Majesty of R. Murray Gilchrist
- Puddles
- Presence and Absence in Poe's "The Imp of the Perverse"
- Grinding Rock
- Handmaidens of the Worm
- The Most Popular Writer in Weird Tales
- The Goblin Goblet
- The Last Few Nights in a Life of Frost
- Over the Quiet Fall: On Algernon Blackwood's "A Descent into Egypt"
- Loaves from Hell
- The Cold Winds of the Old Ones
- The Supernatural in Fiction
- From the Realms of Glory
- The Monsters and the Heroes: Neil Gaiman's Beowulf
- Far from Time: Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, and Arkham House
- Slumming with Stoker and Others
- The Silent Watchers
- Benthos
- Notes on Contributors (The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2010)
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External Links
- Weird Fiction Review #1. Centipede Press page for Weird Fiction Review #1
- S. T. Joshi (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for S. T. Joshi