Dead Reckonings No 22 Fall 2017

The Hippocampus Press Review of Horror and the Weird in the Arts examines recent releases in print, film, and television. Ramsey Campbell contributes his regular column, together with reviews, articles, interviews, features on art and artists, and reminiscences of the 2017 NecronomiCon Providence convention, including a substantial travelogue by the convention's Poet Laureate, Donald Sidney-Fryer.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Hallowed Readings for Hallowe'en ........... Greg Gbur

Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton, ed. Haunted Nights

A Few Reflections........... Martin Andersson

The Creature That Lives in the Dark ........... S. T. Joshi

Ramsey Campbell, Born to the Dark

Worthy Wordsmithery ........... Tony Fonseca

Jason V Brock, The Dark Sea Within: Tales & Poems

A Visitor to Arkham ........... Ramsey Campbell

A Journey Beyond All Journeys ........... Donald Sidney-Fryer

Curating Ars Necronomica 2017 ........... Brian L. Mullen III

The Wonders of the Visible Weird: Ars Necronomica 2017 and Guest of Honor, John Jude Palencar ........... Dave Felton & Michelle Y. Souliere

An Artist's Dreamworld Incantation: The Work of John Jude Palencar ........... Michelle Y. Souliere

FOREVER and a Day ........... Jason V Brock

Darrell Schweitzer, The Threshold of Forever: Essays and Reviews.

The History of the Horror Fiction Boom in the 1970s and '80s ........... Stephanie Graves

Grady Hendrix, Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

Musings: NecronomiCon 2017 ........... Alex Smith

In the Wild Beast Wood: The Triad of Mystery in the Artwork of Sidney H. Sime ........... Daniel Pietersen

Horrors of the Everyday Life ........... June Pulliam

Jordan Peele, dir. Get Out; Brian Falchuck and Ryan Murphy, FX AHS: Cult.

A Century Too Late ........... Tony Fonseca

Sam Gafford, The Dreamer in Fire and Other Stories

Standing Behind the Curtains A Conversation with T. E. D. Klein ........... Barry Lee Dejasu

Uncanny Age: Joachim Kalka's Gaslight ........... James Machin

Joachim Kalka, tr. Isabel Fargo Cole, Gaslight: Lantern Slides from the Nineteenth Century

A Mixed Bag ........... S. T. Joshi

Justin Steele and Sam Cowan, ed. Looming Low, Volume 1

The Art of NecronomiCon ........... Dean Kuhta

Ghosts, Beyond Metaphor and Psychopathology ... Jim Rockhill

Zöe Lehmann Imfield, The Victorian Ghost Story and Theology

The Weird and Eerie in Finest Form ........... Daniel Pietersen

Jeffrey Thomas, Haunted Worlds

Panels of People Screaming: An Interview with Sarah Horrocks ... Nathan Chazan

Vibrant and Vivid: NecronomiCon 2017 ........... Elena Tchougounova-Paulson

Nevertheless, She Persisted ........... Bev Vincent

Stephen King and Owen King, Sleeping Beauties

Thinking Visually: Comments on Comics ........... Alex Houstoun

Revisiting the Dreamlands ........... Darrell Schweitzer

Kij Johnson, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

A Reflection: NecronomiCon 2017 ........... Dr. Géza A. G. Reilly