A Swift River of Allusion................................................ Jim Rockhill [Emma Frances Dawson, An Itinerant House and Other Ghost Stories]
The Novel as Tumor........................................ Michael Marano [Stephen King, Duma Key]
Exploring the Breadth of Weird Fiction. June Pulliam [Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, ed., The New Weird; Ellen Datlow, ed., Inferno]
Die Laughing. Stefan Dziemianowicz [Ramsey Campbell, The Grin of the Dark; Inconsequential Tales]
The Self, the Landscape. John Langan [Conrad Williams, The Scalding Rooms; Conrad Williams, Rain]
An Opportunity Lost Mike Ashley [Ian Alexander Martin, ed., The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories]
Kitchen-Sink Naturalism.. Rob Latham [Christopher Barzak, One for Sorrow]
In, Between, and Around the Genres. Bernadette Bosky [Peter Straub, 5 Stories]
More (of the Same) Can Sometimes Be Less. Tony Fonseca [John Everson, ed., Sins of the Sirens; Hank Schwaeble and Gary Braunbeck, ed., Five Strokes to Midnight]
Cthulhuism and Yog-Sothothery. Steven J. Mariconda [H. P. Lovecraft, Essential Solitude: Letters to August Derleth; O Fortunate Floridian: H. P. Lovecraft’s Letters to R. H. Barlow]
Lives and Deaths at the Edge of Noir Jack M. Haringa [Brian Hodge, Mad Dogs; John Connolly, The Unquiet]
Stormy Weather Ben Indick [Nicholas Royle, The Appetite]
Ramsey Campbell, Probably
Creeping Nihilism.. Alan Warren [Adam-Try Castro, The Shallow End of the Pool; Tim Lebbon and Lindy Moore, Children of the New Disorder]
The Sublime and the Ridiculous. S. T. Joshi [Dennis Etchison, Got to Kill Them All; Ray Garton, Slivers of Bone]
Liebestod in Lower Manhattan. John Langan [John Marks, Fangland]
Dystopia Now.. Matt Cardin [Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco; Paulo Bacigalupi, Pump Six and Other Stories]
Burn This Book. Hank Wagner [Clive Barker, The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies; Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone]
It’s All in the Telling. Gary William Crawford [Brian Showers, The Bleeding Horse and Other Stories; Reggie Oliver, Masques of Satan]
They Know Their South. Sherry Austin [Beth Massie, Homeplace; Will Clarke, The Worthy: A Ghost’s Story]
Dross in Translation. Jack M. Haringa [Asa Nonami, Now You’re One of Us]
Nice Mice. Ben Indick [Susan Palwick, The Fate of Mice]
Heirs to the King?. Kevin Dole [Brian Keene, Dark Hollow; Richard Dansky, Firefly Rain]
Two Centuries of American Ghosts. Richard Bleiler [S. T. Joshi, ed., American Supernatural Tales]
Winning the Resurrection Lottery. Scott Connors [Stephen Mark Rainey, Blue Devil Island; Greg Lamberson, Johnny Gruesome]
Capsule Reviews
This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 15 April, 2010.
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