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Dead Reckonings
I have a few items in the fourth issue of Dead Reckonings, including "Dissecting Thomas Harris" (a review of Dissecting Hannibal Lecter: Essays on the Novels of Thomas Harris) and a couple of capsule reviews.
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Here's the complete TOC, reflecting 94 pages of reviewing goodness:
[Rio Youers, Everdead]
[Gene Wolfe, An Evil Guest]
[Quentin Crisp, Shrike]
[Richard L. Tierney, The Drums of Chaos; Asamatsu Ken, Queen of K'n-Yan]
[Ronald Damien Malfi, Passenger; Peter Atkins, Moontown]
[Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book]
[Ellen Datlow, ed., Poe]
[Simon Clark, Vengeance Child; Conrad Williams, One]
[Douglas Smith, Impossibilia; Mark Samuels, Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes]
[British Invasion, ed. Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, and James A. Moore]
[New Dark Voices II, ed. Brian Keene; Jeremy C . Shipp, Sheep and Wolves]
[Cherie Priest, Fathom]
[Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle]
[Kenneth Hite, Tour de 5 Lovecraft: The Tales; Robert M. Price, Blasphemies & Revelations]
[Scott Nicholson, Scattered Ashes; Tony Richards, Shadows and Other Tales]
[Joe Hill, Gunpowder]
[Jeffrey Ford, The Drowned Life]
[F. Paul Wilson, By the Sword]
[Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep]
[S. T. Joshi, Emperors of Dreams: Some Notes on Weird Poetry; S. T. Joshi, The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos; S. T. Joshi, Classics and Contemporaries: Some Notes on Horror Fiction]
[Henry S. Whitehead, Passing of a God and Other Stories]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Children of Bram and Poesy du Macabre...John Edgar Browning (Stephen Jones, ed., The Mammoth Book of Dracula; Michael A. Arnzen. The Gorelets Omnibus: Collected Poems, 2001–2011.)
Horror Authors Get Religion...............Kendra Kuss Ditto (Stacia Kane, Sacrificial Magic; Michele Lang, Dark Victory)
Uttering the Unutterable..................Tony Fonseca (S. T. Joshi, Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction)
Time and Time Again.....................Antoinette Winstead (Dean Koontz, The Dead Town: A Novel and Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel)
Weird Poetry, Then and Now...S. T. Joshi (Brett Rutherford, ed., Matthew Gregory Lewis (ed.) Tales of Wonder and Last Flowers: The Romance and Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe & Sarah Helen Whitman; Whippoorwill Road: The Supernatural Poems of Brett Rutherford)
The Return of the Old-Fashioned Tale of Terror............Robert Butterfield (Scott Thomas, Urn and Willow; William Meikle. Dark Melodies)
Sweet Zombie Jesus!.........June Pulliam (Daryl Gregory, Raising Stony Mayhall )
Martin’s Classic Vampire Still Lives.........Braden Dauzat (George R. R. Martin, Fevre Dream.)
Vampire Sluts, Doppelgangers, and Impossible Abodes.........Javier A. Martinez (Blake Butler. There Is No Year; Grace Krilanovich, The Orange Eats Creeps)
A Shadow of His Best Work.........Tim Lucas (Tim Burton, dir. Dark Shadows)
Shelley’s Monster Lives.........Matthew McEver (Mary Shelley, Frankenstein)
The Heart of Darkness.........Bev Vincent (Peter Straub, The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine; Graham Joyce, Some Kind of Fairy Tale)
Ramsey Campbell, Probably: A Can of Heinz
Love(crafty)an Eccentrics.........Darrell Schweitzer (Peter Cannon, Forever Azathoth: Parodies and Pastiches; W. H. Pugmire, Uncommon Places: A Collection of Exquisites)
Callers from Hell.........Van Viator (Tom Fletcher, The Leaping and The Thing on the Shore.)
A Brilliant Idea Poorly Executed.........Jim Rockhill (John C. Tibbetts, The Gothic Imagination.)
The Wonderful World of Nihilism.........Antoinette Winstead (Dean Koontz, 77 Shadow Street; Adam Nevill, The Ritual.)
Rekindling Interest in Two Novels.........Tony Fonseca (Ramsey Campbell, The Seven Days of Cain; Graham Masterton, Petrified.)
Two Views of Two Classics......Hank Wagner, with Bev Vincent (Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes)
Vampires on Ice......Hank Wagner (Matt Forbeck, Carpathia; Barbara Hambly, The Magistrates of Hell.)
Lesser Powers?.........Darrell Schweitzer (Tim Powers, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories)
Of Mirrors and Lakes.........Tony Fonseca (Eric A. Jackson, A Blind Eye to the Rearview; Ronald [Damien] Malfi, Floating Staircase.)
Werewolf Novel a Real Dog.........June Pulliam (Anne Rice, The Wolf Gift)
Giron “Classic” Promises, But Doesn’t Deliver.........Andy Trevathan (Sephera Giron, The Birds and the Bees)
The Weird Scholar............S. T. Joshi
Notes on Contributors
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Wagner and Vincent on Simmons -- Hank Wagner and Bev Vincent (Dan Simmons, The Abominable)
Ramsey Campbell, Probably: The Grin Beneath the Flesh
From Horror to Homage -- Richard Bleiler (J. E. Mooney and Bill Fawcett, eds., Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe; Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., ed. The Grimscribe’s Puppets)
Joel Lane: In Memoriam -- Robert Butterfield
Other Realities—Alternate Readings Two Views on Jason V Brock (Jason V Brock, Simulacrum and Other Possible Realities)
Malignant Mothers -- Richard Bleiler (John Boyne, This House Is Haunted, Sophie Hannah, The Orphan Choir)
What Happens After? -- Sarah Simms (Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds., After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)
571 Forrester Lane Eats Babies -- Matthew McEver (Sonja Condit, Starter House)
Triskaidekaphilia -- Jonathan Johnson (Jonathan Thomas, Thirteen Conjurations)
Submitted: My Stamp of Approval -- Tony Fonseca (Reba Wissner, A Dimension of Sound: The Music of The Twilight Zone)
Religious Fanaticism Run Amok -- Antoinette Winstead (L. Andrew Cooper, Burning the Middle Ground)
Fifty Years of Ramsey Campbell -- S. T. Joshi (Ramsey Campbell, Holes for Faces; The Kind Folk; and The Last Revelation of Gla’ak)i
Two Veteran Storytellers Demonstrate How It Is Done -- Robert Butterfield (Darrell Schweitzer, The Emperor of the Ancient Word; Tony Richards, The Universal and Other Terrors)
Zombie Scholarship Earns Respect -- June Pulliam (Jennifer Rutherford, Zombies; Aalya Ahmad and Sean Moreland, eds. Fear and Learning: Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror)
Sequel Deserves to be a Forgotten Chapter -- Braden Dauzat (James Wan, dir. Insidious: Chapter 2)
Haunted from Within and Without -- Richard Bleiler (Ellen Datlow, ed. Hauntings)
A Darker Piece of Darkness -- John Edgar Browning (Ellen Datlow, ed. The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 5 andBlood and Other Cravings; Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories)
The Lovecraftian Magickal Mystery Tour -- Leigh Blackmore (Peter Levenda, The Dark Lord: H. P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant and the Typhonian Tradition in Magic)
A Smorgasbord of Weird -- S. T. Joshi (Lois H. Gresh, ed. Dark Fusions: Where Monsters Lurk!
Portrait of the Mythos-Maker as a Young Man -- Tony Fonseca (S. T. Joshi, The Assaults of Chaos: A Novel about H. P. Lovecraft)
Second Time’s the Charm -- Leigh Blackmore (H. P. Lovecraft, The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works)
Covens, Witchcraft, and Murder, Oh My! ......Antoinette Winstead (Debbie Viguie, The Thirteenth Sacrifice: A Witch Hunt Novel)
Zombies Are People Too -- June Pulliam (Jonny Campbell, dir., In the Flesh)
The Weird Scholar -- S. T. Joshi
https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/dead-reckonings/dead-reckonings-no.-21
Bestarred with Fainting Flowers ..... Daniel Pietersen
Symbolism and Myth in the Work of R. Murray Gilchrist
The “V” Word ..... Jose Cruz
T. E. Grau, They Don’t Come Home Anymore
Shadows with Teeth ..... Darrell Schweitzer
Ellen Datlow, ed. The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 8
Existential and Ontological Horror ..... S. T. Joshi
Joel Lane, This Spectacular Darkness: Critical Essays, ed. Mark Valentine and John Howard
In the Heliotherapy Ward ..... Amber Doll Diaz
David F. Sandberg, Lights Out
The Horror in the Card Catalog . S. T. Joshi
Darrell Schweitzer and John Ashmead, ed. Tales from the Miskatonic University Library
Southern Discomfort and the Ubiquitous Undead ..... Stephanie Graves
Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, and Daniel Cross Turner, ed. Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture
Forever I’m Alone with You ..... Jose Cruz
Lynda E. Rucker, You’ll Know When You Get There
Stranger Things: A Conversation between Bev Vincent and Hank Wagner
Terrors of the Natural World ..... S. T. Joshi
Richard Gavin, Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness
Ramsey’s Rant: Remembering Kirby ..... Ramsey Campbell
Psychosexual Syzygy: Checking in at the Bates Motel ..... Gavin Callaghan
Bates Motel, Seasons 1 through 5
Terror for Children ..... Taij Devon
Aric Cushing, Vampire Boy
The Homely Commonplace and the Unimaginably Deranged: J. G. Ballard’s High Rise ..... Alexander Lugo
The Resurgence of Weird Magazines ..... Ashley Dioses
The Final Work of Mark Fisher ..... James Machin
Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie
SMASH EVERYTHING! Bobby Rhodes and His Demons
Nathan Chazan
THINKING HORROR: An Exchange with s. j. bagley ..... Alex Houstoun
Pastiches of Pastiches S. T. Joshi
Brian M. Sammons and Glynn Owen Barrass, ed. The Children of Gla’aki: A Tribute to Ramsey Campbell’s Great Old One
Finding the Everything in Nothing ........... Christopher Ropes
Simon Strantzas, Nothing Is Everything.
Weird Fiction and Decadence ........... S. T. Joshi
James Machin, Weird Fiction in Britain 1880–1939.
That Is Not How the Story Goes ........... Bev Vincent
Theodora Goss, Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems.
Sesqua Valley’s Weirdest Inhabitant, Wilum Pugmire ........... David Barker
Ramsey’s Rant: Horror versus Horror ........... Ramsey Campbell
Marvelous Milicent: The Rise and Removal of a Monster-Artist Maven ........... Danel Olson
Mallory O’Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick.
Maybe Johnny is an Old One? The Room as Lovecraftian Pastiche ........... Edward Guimont
Weird Fiction in the 21st Century: A Conversation with S. T. Joshi ........... Alex Houstoun
Rediscovering Ken Greenhall ........... Darrell Schweitzer
Ken Greenhall, Elizabeth; Hell Hound; and Childgrave.
Some Notes on Call of Cthulhu and Other Lovecraftian Video Games ........... Géza A. G. Reilly
Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game.
Running Towards Nothing: B. Catling’s Vorrh Trilogy ........... Daniel Pietersen
B. Catling, The Vorrh; The Erstwhile; and The Cloven.
The Horror of Mendacity ........... Acep Hale
Daniel Powell, Horror Culture in the New Millennium: Digital Dissonance and Technohorror.
Marvelous Monsters ........... Hank Wagner
Anya Martin, Sleeping with the Monster.
Men Kill Women Like Me ........... Fiona Maeve Geist
Farah Rose Smith, Anonyma.
Meditations on the Agnostic Gothic ........... Karen Joan Kohoutek
Dead Reckonings No. 32, Fall 2022
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Being a review of Strange Relics: Stories of Archeology and the Supernatural, 1895-1953
edited by Amara Thornton and Katy Soar
A Newly Arrived Triumph by Géza A. G. Reilly
Being a review of The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales by Attila Verse, translated by Luca Karafiáth
June Ruins Everything by June Pulliam
Being reviews of Westworld, Season 4; The Walking Dead, Season 11; American Horror Stories, Season 2; What We Do in the Shadows, Season 4; Interview with the Vampire, Season 1
Ramsey's Rant: The Disengaged by Ramsey Campbell
The Scandinavian Abyss by Karen Joan Kohoutek
Being a review of Swedish Cults by Anders Fager, translated by Ian Lemke and Henning Koch
There are More Things by The joey Zone
Being a summary of ARS NECRONOMICA 2022, The Visual Divine of the Dark Cosmos, Here and Beyond.
Necronomicon Providence: It Isn’t Just the Money by Darrell Schweitzer
Being a report on attending Necronomicon Providence 2022
Hunter’s Moon Homecoming by CS Schneider
Being a work of fiction
A Monstrous World: The Weird Fiction of Frank Belknap Long by Katherine Kerestman
Being a review of Library of Weird Fiction: Frank Belknap Long edited by S. T. Joshi
Swordly and Sorcerous Adventures in Atlantis by Darrell Schweitzer
Being a review of A Sorcerer of Atlantis by John Shirley
Feeding Nothing to Good Effect by Géza A. G. Reilly
Being a review of The Envious Nothing: A Collection of Literary Ruin by Curtis M. Lawson
Ask Leeman: An Interview with the Creator of Ask Lovecraft by Alex Houstoun
Being an interview with Leeman Kessler
Tales From The Sticks by The joey Zone
Being a review of Scrying Stones & Dolmen & Others: Chips & Shavings 1963–1964 by Lee Brown Coye
“It’s the Beginning of the End”: Stranger Things Season 4 by Hank Wagner and Bev Vincent
Being a discussion of the latest season of Stranger Things
Two from the British Library Archives by Karen Joan Kohoutek
Being a reviews of The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan edited by Michael Wheatley and Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird edited by Manon Burz-Labrande
The World Fantasy Convention New Orleans, November 3–6, 2022 by Darrell Schweitzer
Being a report on attending the World Fantasy Convention 2022
For me, it was the beginning of the rise of Scandinavian crime fiction/cinema on the international stage, which I have heartily enjoyed over the years. I never did read the follow-up books, though. Only the original trilogy. I also thought the US remake of the first book was misguided but the original Swedish version was decent enough.
I think it must have inspired the quite good Tv series The Bridge heavily. If you havent seen it it can be recommended.