New Book: We Are Providence

Saw this at NecronomiCon Providence this weekend:

We Are Providence: Tales of Horror From The Ocean State 

details and order from the publisher:  https://www.weirdhousepress.com/product/we-are-providence/



Come. Take our hands. The twilight is dimming, but the moon is bright enough to see by, and it’s the perfect night to go for a walk. We’ll Stroll through a cemetery in Exter to where police officers are dispatched every Halloween and where a one-hundred-fifty-year-old vampire girl is said to still roam. We’ll wander the wharves in Jamestown, but mind your footing; the sea is home to all manner of creatures just waiting to break the surface after a thousand-year sleep. And keep an eye on the Romanesque Revival windows of the mansions along Newport’s Cliff Walk; you might catch a glimpse of a silhouette with no early reason for being there. In Providence, we’ll stalk the shadowy streets along with the ghosts of transcendentalist poets and jilted lovers, but don’t be surprised to discover that the monsters of Lovecraft’s fiction are not, in fact, the product of his imagination. The capital city has secrets and those secrets have tentacles. And teeth.

Welcome to Rhode Island, home of the weird, the hometown horror, the haunted, the hunted. Home of the Gothic and of horror with history. We promise there’s something here for everyone, whether visiting or already one with the region’s countless legends. Rode Island is the smallest state but the biggest house of horrors…

And the door is open.



Stories included in We Are Providence:

• Introduction: The Roots of Horror in Rhode Island by Faye Ringel
• The Scariest Story by Joshua Rex
• Blood in the Sand by John Lynch
• Testing a Horrible Superstition by Christa Carmen
• Who Lives in the Shunned House? by Mary Robles
• A Providence Thing by Jason Parent
• The Hidden Heart by Victoria Dalpe
• Spectacle Cove by L. E. Daniels
• Long Live the River by Mary Robles
• Alex’s Tree by Michael Squid
• Soul Parasite by Paul Magnan
• Close Behind by Barry Dejasu
• A Possession by H. Y. Hsu
• Ghosts of Waterfire by Mary Robles
• Mary’s Mama’s Heart by Faye Ringel
• Ghost Catch by K. H. Vaughan
• Rhyme of Tides by Mary Robles
• Poe’s Black Feathers by Mary Robles
• Unsuccessful Coping Mechanism for Grieving Lost Lovers by Curtis M. Lawson
• Wanted Dead or Alive 2025 by Steven E. Belanger
• The Salt Man of South Kingstown by Aron Beauregard

ABOUT THIS BOOK

What could be more natural than a collection of horror stories from the Rhode Island authors?
Edited by Christa Carmen and L. E. Daniels
Trade Paperback in stock and shipping!
Cover art by Mr. Michael Squid

Book Talk: Gothic Literature and the Supernatural in New England (8/29/2022, Norwich, CT/Zoom)

My thanks to Faye Ringel for the notice of this event:

Gothic Literature and the Supernatural in New England 

source: https://www.otislibrarynorwich.org/upcoming-events/2022/8/29/gothic-literature-and-the-supernatural-in-new-england

 

Monday, August 29, 2022 

 6:00 PM 7:00 PM 

Otis Library 

261 Main St. 

Norwich, CT 06360 (map)  

Google Calendar ICS


Otis Library presents a hybrid event offering a celebration of two new books and a chance to learn more about the supernatural in New England. This program will take place in the Community Room and Live on Zoom.

Faye Ringel, PhD., retired Professor of Humanities at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, is launching her second book on the New England Gothic. Published this year by Anthem, a scholarly press based in the UK, it was written entirely during the pandemic--a particularly appropriate time for the Gothic in literature, film, and life. Dr. Ringel will be speaking via Zoom. Copies of The Gothic Literature and History of New England: Secrets of the Restless Dead will be available for sale in the Community Room.

Horror writer Christa Carmen of Westerly will be present at the Library to speak about her research into Rhode Island’s Gothic history. She is the editor, along with Lauren Elise Daniels, of We Are Providence: Tales of Horror from the Ocean State which makes its debut at this event. Daniels, who grew up in Rhode Island, will be joining the discussion via Zoom from Brisbane, Australia. The new anthology features 20 scary stories by writers who live—or have lived—in Rhode Island. Dr. Ringel wrote the book’s introduction and one of the stories. Many of the authors will be joining the discussion, in person or via Zoom. Copies of this anthology will be available for sale and signing following the program.

This free program will be presented live and over Zoom. Registration is not required. If you would like to attend via Zoom, please sign up on the Otis Library website calendar or call Julie at 860-889-2365, ext. 128. 

 

CFP Online Midwinter Seminar 2023 Fantasy Goes to Hell: Depictions of Hell in Modern Fantasy Texts (11/15/2022; online 1/27-28/2023)

Online Midwinter Seminar 2023
Fantasy Goes to Hell: Depictions of Hell in Modern Fantasy Texts

January 27-28 (Friday evening, Saturday all day)
Via Zoom and Discord

Source and registration link: https://www.mythsoc.org/oms/oms-2023.htm

Online Midwinter Seminar
Fantasy Goes to Hell: Depictions of Hell in Modern Fantasy Texts
Co-chairs: Janet Brennan Croft and Erin Giannini

Hell in modern fantasy is usually a far cry from traditional depictions in major world religions — the dry and dusty hells of ancient Mesopotamia and the Classical world, the ambiguous Hel of the Norse, the fiery pit and everlasting torment of medieval Christianity and Islam, the purgatorial hells of reincarnative religions like Buddhism and Hinduism. How do creators of fantasy imagine Hell differently? And more importantly, why? What do these depictions have to tell us about what is hellish in our modern world?

In addition to hosting this Online Midwinter Seminar, the co-chairs will be co-editing a special issue of Mythlore, in which they intend to present selected papers presented at this seminar.

REGISTRATION

Registration is US$20.00 per person.

Since a major component of the online seminar is the discussions and other activities on Discord, we would also like to know what screen name (or "handle") you use, or would like to use, on that platform. Specifying both your real name and your Discord name helps us keep track of who is registered and who is not. However, supplying your Discord name is technically optional, especially if you do not plan on participating in any Discord activities.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The CFP deadline is November 15, 2022.

The Mythopoeic Society invites paper submissions for an online conference that focuses on the various depictions of the concept of hell in modern fantasy works. Aspects of this topic might include but are certainly not limited to any of the following:

• The mystical spiritual descent: what can be gained from a descent to hell
• The escape from hell: What is saved, and what is left behind
• The harrowing of hell: the rescue of others from hell
• The pact with hell: self-damnation or turning the tables
• The intersection of race, racism, and hell
• Hellish places: Mordor, Charn, the Upside Down, the post-apocalyptic world
• The influence of fantastic ur-texts about Hell: Aeneas’s visit in The Aeneid; Dante’s Inferno; Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus; Milton’s Paradise Lost; Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit; the art of Hieronymus Bosch; Mozart’s Don Giovanni
• “This IS the Bad Place!”: The primary world as Hell

Papers from a variety of critical perspectives and disciplines are welcome. We are interested in ANY form of media — text, graphic novels, television, movies, music and music videos, games — as long as it can be described as fantasy and includes a hell or its denizens.
Some texts to consider:

• C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce
• Charles Williams’s All Hallows’ Eve
• Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens (book and television series)
• Lois McMaster Bujold’s Five Gods series
• Music videos: Lil Nas X’s “Montero” and “Industry Baby”
• Television series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Lovecraft Country, Supernatural, The Good Place
• Movies: Get Out, Dogma
• Tanith Lee’s Tales From the Flat Earth series (Death’s Master et seq.)
• Works by Vaclev Havel, Franz Kafka, Nikolai Gogol, George Orwell
• Neil Gaiman’s Sandman (graphic novels and television series)
• Walter Wangerin, Jr.’s Dun Cow trilogy
• Evan Dahm’s Harrowing of Hell (graphic novel)

Each paper will receive a 50-minute slot to allow time for questions, but individual papers should be timed for oral presentation in 40 minutes maximum. Two or three presenters who wish to present short, related papers may also share a one-hour slot. Participants are encouraged to submit papers chosen for presentation at the conference to the special issue of Mythlore devoted to this theme. All papers should conform to the MLA Style Manual current edition.

Proposals should be approximately 200 words in length and should be sent to both co-chairs: oms-chair@mythcon.org and oms-co-chair@mythcon.org.

CFP Casas Tomadas: Monsters and Metaphors on the Periphery of Latin American Literature (9/30/2022; NeMLA 2023)

Forwarded from the MEARCSTAPA List



CALL FOR PAPERS

Casas Tomadas: Monsters and Metaphors on the Periphery of Latin American Literature

Co-Chaired by Carlos Gonzalez and Caio Cesar Esteves de Souza (Harvard University)

Monsters have always played an important role in the literature of Latin America and have managed to persist in the national imaginations from which hispano- and lusophone writers draw their own source material. Dictators, strongmen, and organized crime roam the peripheries

of language and history side by side with monsters, specters, and creatures horrible to behold. This panel will draw together scholarship exploring the ways in which monsters, of the imagination and of history, persist in the literature, politics, language, and culture of Latin America, drawing from a wide array of sources and disciplines. It will also explore the role of literature in ensuring, processing, and reimagining the ongoing survival of the monstrous, with perhaps surprising results.

NeMLA invites submissions from graduate students and welcomes academic papers from across disciplines, regardless of field or time period, covering literature, translation, cinema, theater, cultural studies, art, graphic novels, music, etc. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes and can be given in English, Spanish, and/or Portuguese. Proposals of no more than 300 words may be submitted to by September 30, 2022.

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT PROPOSAL HERE by September 30, 2022!
bit.ly/CasasTomadas

Please include an author bio of 100–150 words with the abstract.


54th NeMLA ANNUAL CONVENTION

Keynote Speaker: Anne Enright
SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT PROPOSAL HERE by September 30, 2022!
NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK
March 23-26, 2023
Location: Niagara Falls Convention Center
Hotel: Sheraton Niagara Falls
Sponsored by the University at Buffalo