Studies In Modern Horror, Issue Two

A Scholarly Journal for the Study of Contemporary Weird Fiction
Edited by NGChristakos
Cover artwork by Gustave Doré

Contributions in issue number two are:

(1) A Question of Influence (Symposium). A gathering of several of todays top genre authors and critics in an attempt to decern who the primary influence on the contemporary horror author is

• “Introduction” by NGChristakos
• “Timelines” by Michael T. Huyck, Jr.
• “The Crucial Lovecraft” by Ramsey Campbell
• “Lovecraft’s Legacy” by Jeffrey Thomas
• “Long Live the King” by Michael Oliveri
• “100 Yards Past the Rim…” by Steve Gerlach

(2) “China Miéville’s The Scar: Pulp Weird Fiction Revisited [Part One: The Books]” by NGChristakos
An attempt to trace the influece of Pulp Weird Fiction on China Miéville. This essay is the first part, with part two to follow next issue; the subtitle for this issue's installment is "The Books".

(3) “The Best of Horror” by Steffen Hantke
An excellent conjecture as to why horror literature remains outside of the academic canon as well as supposition as to how it might (or as) infiltrate the same.

(4) “Notes on Time Displacement and Memory Loss in Crampton” by Nick Curits with annotation by NGChristakos
A brief discussion on the use of two science fiction mainstay elements, time displacement and memory loss, and their use with Thomas Ligotti and Brandon Trenz's Crampton. This essay as been edited and annotated by NGChristakos.

(5) “Appendix: The Unholy City” by Thomas Ligotti
An appendix to the Crampton article, this is the text to "The Unholy City", previously made available solely in spoken form. "The Unholy City" is a set of six 'poems' recorded in song form on the CD that accompanies the Crampton book, as issued by Durtro Press [for the first time in-print, here are all six poems from the CD released in combination with the Durtro Press version of Crampton]

Perfect Bound softcover magazine; 5 ½ x 8 ½ size; 40pgs.