Joshi's Driven to Madness with Fright

I've been drifting in and out of Lovecraft country since the summer collecting books that appear to offer some overviews. Lovecraft and weird fiction scholar S. T. Joshi offers this interesting, self-published collection of his recent essays and reviews. It is a very informative collection with much insight into contemporary weird fiction.


Driven to Madness with Fright: Further Notes on Horror Fiction
Paperback – December 1, 2016
by S. T. Joshi (Author)

For more than 30 years, S. T. Joshi has been a pioneering critic of fantasy, horror, and supernatural fiction. This new collection of his essays and reviews covers the entire range of weird fiction, from Romantic poetry to the work of Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, and Shirley Jackson. Particularly insightful are Joshi's assessments of such contemporary writers as Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Thomas Ligotti, and Reggie Oliver. Joshi, the leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft, also provides pungent analyses of recent works of Lovecraftian fiction by such figures as W. H. Pugmire and Darrell Schweitzer, as well as incisive reviews of recent works of Lovecraft scholarship. All in all, this book will engage, entertain, and inform all devotees of weird fiction.

For purchase at Amazon.com at https://www.amazon.com/Driven-Madness-Fright-Further-Fiction/dp/154077080X/.

CFP Summer 2018 issue of Supernatural Studies (4/1/2018)

Summer 2018 issue of Supernatural Studies seeks submissions
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/01/17/summer-2018-issue-of-supernatural-studies-seeks-submissions

deadline for submissions:
April 1, 2018


full name / name of organization:
Supernatural Studies Association


contact email:
supernaturalstudies@gmail.com




Supernatural Studies

Call for Papers, Spring 2018 Issue

Supernatural Studies is a peer-reviewed journal that promotes rigorous yet accessible scholarship in the growing field of representations of the supernatural, the speculative, the uncanny, and the weird. The breadth of “the supernatural” as a category creates the potential for interplay among otherwise disparate individual studies that will ideally produce not only new work but also increased dialogue and new directions of scholarly inquiry. To that end, the editorial board welcomes submissions employing any theoretical perspective or methodological approach and engaging with any period and representations including but not limited to those in literature, film, television, video games, and other cultural texts and artifacts.



Submissions should be 5,000 to 8,000 words, including notes but excluding Works Cited, and follow the MLA Handbook, 8th ed. (2016); notes should be indicated by superscript Arabic numerals in text and pasted at the end of the article. International submissions should adhere to the conventions of U.S. English spelling, usage, and punctuation. Manuscripts should contain no identifying information, and each submission will undergo blind peer review by at least two readers. Contributors are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions and ensuring observance of copyright. Submissions should be emailed to supernaturalstudies@gmail.com as an attached Microsoft Word file. The deadline for guaranteed consideration for the Spring 2018 issue is 1 April 2018.



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Last updated January 17, 2018