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 About the Contributors