Dead Reckonings No. 21 (Spring 2017)

Under new editorship and with a broader scope, the latest issue of the long-running journal from Hippocampus Press offers a bonanza of material for the enthusiast of Horror and the Weird in The Arts.



TABLE OF CONTENTS

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



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