Weird Fiction Review #8
- Written by S. T. Joshi
- ISBN: 9781613472125
- Format: Softcover, 400pp
- Publish Date: December 1, 2017
- Dimensions: Unknown Dimensions
- Original Price: US$35
- 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 eighth issue contains fiction, poetry, and reviews from leading writers and promising newcomers.
His issue features fiction by John Shirley, Flannery O'Connor, Lynne Jamneck, Michael Washburn, and others, and articles by Stefan Dziemianowicz (an Tibbetts (on John M arrie), Forrest J Ackerman (on Robert Bloch), as well as verse and other essays and fiction.
The feature of the issue is Chad Hensley's terrific interview with Erol Otus, the iconic artist that did so much of the Dungeons & Dragons artwork of the late 1970s and early 1980s he front and back cover, and inside covers, are by artist Grant Griffin The list price on this item is $35 and it is on sale for $30. edition information.
Edition Details
- Edited by S.T. Joshi.
- Artwork gallery by Erol Otus.
- Lengthy interview with Patrick McGrath.
- History of the small press: Shasta Press by Stefan Dziemianowicz.
- Several new essays and stories.
- Sewn paperback.
- Nearly 400 pages.
Contents:
- Nodding Angel
- The Mechanism
- I Whispered
- Weird Erotica in the Age of Essex
- Her Wan Embrace
- Furious Night
- The Witching at Land's End
- They Coulda Been a Contender: The Shasta Publishing Story
- Ghosts in the Machine: Cuing Mood in the Soundtracks of Horror Cinema
- The Cobwebbed Bird House
- Simulacrum
- The Hell-Fire Club's All-Ghouls' Feast
- The Tomb of Somb
- Gnostic Elements in "The Dunwich Horror" and Stephen King's It
- To Court the Dragon and the Snake
- Into My Heart an Air That Kills
- 26F
- Nabarro's Monster
- Dracula's Deuce: How Horror Films Haunt Garage and Surf Music
- Patrick McGrath: The Brewery Interview
- The Quiet City and the Lonely Child
- Visceral Visual Wizardry
- The Ghosts of James M. Barrie
- Gorgonum Chaos: or, The Sisters of Medusa
- Schnooks Abroad
- Lucia
- Gazing Into the Abyss: Thomas Ligotti and Friedrich Nietzsche on Nihilism
- The Thing in the Box
- The Comforts of Home
- Once Around the Bloch
- Verse Fandom
- Remembering Robert Bloch
- Forgotten Masters of the Weird Tale: The Curious Case of C. Hall Thompson
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External Links
- Weird Fiction Review #8. Centipede Press page for Weird Fiction Review #8
- S. T. Joshi (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for S. T. Joshi