A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism
Edited by S. T. Joshi
ISBN 9781614983897 paperback
ISBN 9781614983903 ebook (available soon!)
September 2022
318 pp
Cover art by George C. Cotronis. Cover design by Daniel V. Sauer.
The third issue of Penumbra, the acclaimed Hippocampus Press annual magazine of weird fiction, poetry, and criticism, features provocative stories from both veterans and novices. Steven Woodworth sets his tale in Soviet-controlled Czechoslovakia, while Darrell Schweitzer and Geoffrey Reiter evoke the terror of the rural American landscape. Harley Carnell takes us to working-class England, Carl E. Reed to the Chicago underworld. Other, briefer tales by Manuel Arenas, Garrett Boatman, Scott J. Couturier, and Barry Yedvobnick are no less powerful.
Among the critical essays in the issue, James Goho writes a profound analysis of the work of the late British writer Joel Lane. César Guarde-Paz contributes a scintillating piece on the interplay of weird fiction and philosophy, while Manuel Arenas and Katherine Kerestman write on the ever-vital vampire motif. David Haden and S. T. Joshi write on the neglected female weird writers Mary Howitt and Everil Worrell. Other essays discuss William Hope Hodgson, H. P. Lovecraft’s influence on George R. R. Martin, and other topics.
The issue also contains an array of evocative poetry by such masters of weird verse as Wade German, Frank Coffman, Ann K. Schwader, Ngo Binh Anh Khoa, and others. In all, Penumbra No. 3 provides a rich feast of terror for the scholar and the devotee.
Contents
Fiction
??? / Stephen Woodworth
A Glint amid the Corn / Geoffrey Reiter
In the Graveyard / Scott J. Couturier
Hands Up / Harley Carnell
Side Effects May Include / Barry Yedvobnick
The Candidate / Carl E. Reed
The Witch’s Lover / Garrett Boatman
The Hearse and the Highwaymen / Manuel Arenas
Killing the Pale Man / Darrell Schweitzer
Classic Reprints
The Lady Francesca: A Fantasy / Violet Sturgis Cosby
Whispering Wires / W. H. Pugmire
Nonfiction
The Many Lives of Carmilla Karnstein / Manuel Arenas
Trauma, Possession, and Witnessing in the Noir Supernatural Cityscapes of Joel Lane / James Goho
Dracula: Bram Stoker’s Love Letter to the Human Race / Katherine Kerestman
From Superstitious Fantasy to Scientific Fiction: A Baconian Reading of the Weird Tale from Shelley to Lovecraft / César Guarde-Paz
“I Dream a Golden Dream”: A Brief Dunsany Correspondence—and Friendship / Darrell Schweitzer
The Weird Work of Mary Howitt / David Haden
Everil Worrell: Women, Religion, and Weird Fiction / S. T. Joshi
Under the Sign of the Hourglass: Elderly Protagonists in Horror Fiction / Silke Brandt
“O Thou Who Art; but Not by Man Described”: Searching for God in the Dark Seas of William Hope Hodgson’s Poetry / Geoffrey Reiter
A Nice Day for a Red Wedding: Repurposing Celebrations for Horror / Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer
China Miéville’s “Säcken”: Folk Horror, New Weird, and Gender Politics / Deborah Bridle
Poetry
Sisterhood of Shadows / Wade German
Nyarlathotep / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
The Instructive Pleasures of Horror Fiction / Carl E. Reed
Evolution of a Younger God / Melissa Ridley Elmes
The Last Halloween/ / John C. Tibbetts
The Ornamental Hermit / Kurt Newton
She’s Walking Home / G. O. Clark
The Kannibaali / Frank Coffman
The Dead Learn Nothing / Ann K. Schwader
An Edwardian Quartet / Geoffrey Reiter
I Know There Are Giants under Our Hills / Darrell Schweitzer
Notes on Contributors
This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 04 September, 2022.
