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
Z e 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. G za A. G. Reilly