Weird Fiction Review #9




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 ninth issue contains fiction, poetry, and reviews from leading writers and promising newcomers.

His issue features fiction by Caitln R Kiernan, Laird Barron, Victor LaValle, Stephen Graham Jones, Scott Bradfield and others, and articles by Stefan Dziemianowicz (an ibbetts (on Marjorie Bowen), as well as verse and other essays and fiction.

The feature of the issue is Chad Hensley's outstanding article on H. R iger-inspired Alien toys The front and back cover, and inside covers, are by artist Colin Nitta he list price on this item is $35 and it is on sale for $30. edition information.


Edition Details
  • Edited by S.T. Joshi.
  • Lengthy interview with David Mitchell.
  • History of the small press: Gnome Press by Stefan Dziemianowicz.
  • Several new essays and stories.
  • Sewn paperback.
  • Over 400 pages.
  • Book size 6 × 9 inches.

Contents:
  • Zombie-ish
  • Surrealist Horror Novels: An Overview
  • Albina and the Dog-Men (cover)
  • Cobwebs
  • Good Boys
  • Reflections on Robert E. Howard
  • Patrick McGrath Reanimates the Gothic
  • We Used Swords in the '70s
  • Amazing
  • The Shaman's Smile
  • Wild, Wild Vampires: Robert E. Howard on Breaking with Convention in the Western Genre
  • The Forgetful Idealist
  • Withering Winds
  • The Pecking Order
  • Midwestern Horror: An Interview with Clint Smith
  • The Howling House
  • The Girl in the Window
  • Unmasqued
  • A Gnome There Was: The Gnome Press Story
  • Scylla and Charybdis
  • The Horrific History of H. R. Giger's Alien Toys!
  • Collector Profile: Steve Dwyer
  • The Outlier
  • Daddy
  • The Darkest Part of the Midnight Sun: Arthur Machen and the Fiction of Ramsey Campbell
  • The Accident
  • "An Enchanting Brewer of Dread": Marjorie Bowen and Her Ghosts
  • Letter to Marjorie Bowen, July 3, 1916
  • Letter to Marjorie Bowen, May 27, 1907
  • Hello Sharkness, My Old Friend
  • Fertility Rite
  • Virginia Story
  • WFR Interview: David Mitchell
  • Forgotten Masters of the Weird Tale: Paul Ernst
  • Meet the Editors!

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