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