{"id":12854,"date":"2014-08-26T07:26:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T04:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=12854"},"modified":"2014-08-26T07:26:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T04:26:25","slug":"disorders-of-magnitude-a-survey-of-dark-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/08\/26\/disorders-of-magnitude-a-survey-of-dark-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Disorders of Magnitude: A Survey of Dark Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shipping now, Jason V. Brock’s new collection of essays, Disorders of Magnitude: A Survey of Dark Fantasy<\/a>\"\"<\/em>. Sadly it comes from a $80-a-book publisher which aims at sales to university libraries and tenured professors rather than the fans, but Amazon ships it slightly cheaper than the list-price and some used paper copies are now filtering onto Amazon at somewhat lower prices. There’s also a Kindle ebook edition, but it’s a ridiculous $76.65.<\/p>\n

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I’ve highlighted the items of likely interest to Lovecraftians…<\/p>\n

Contents:<\/p>\n

Section One: The Darkest Age<\/p>\n

The Smoldering Past: The Creation of the Modern from Frankenstein and Dracula to the Great War and Beyond
\n\u201cCosmic Introspection\u201d: Lovecraft\u2019s Attainment of Personal Value by Way of Infinite Insignificance<\/strong>
\nForrest J Ackerman: Fan Zero<\/strong>
\nGathering Darkness: In Appreciation of the Artists of Weird Tales<\/strong>
\nFrank M. Robinson: First Fandom and Beyond<\/p>\n

Section Two: Things Become<\/p>\n

The Burden of Now: Welles\u2019s \u201cPanic Broadcast,\u201d World War II, and Creeping Anomie
\nRay Bradbury: The Boy Who Never Grew Up
\nCinematic Dream Logic: How Movies Permanently Altered the Fabric of Reality
\nIndividual Sexual Liberation Becomes Social Emancipation: Playboy Changes the World
\nHarlan Ellison: L\u2019Enfant Terrible (Sort Of)<\/p>\n

Section Three: The Rise of the Speculative Mind<\/p>\n

Rod Serling: Articulating the American Nightmare
\nA Howling at Owl Creek Bridge: Observations on Two Important Twilight Zone Episodes
\nGeorge Clayton Johnson: A Touch of Strange
\nL\u2019Age d\u2019Or to Gotterdammerung: How Bradbury, Serling, Beaumont, and \u201cThe Group\u201d Shaped a Pop Future
\nRoger Corman: Socially Conscious Auteur
\nFinding Sanctuary: Running from the Zone to Logan
\nThe Long Nuclear Shadow: Atomic Horror, Godzilla, and the Cold War
\nThe Horror of It All! EC [comics] and the Beginnings of Modern Media HOOHAH!
\nMadly Yours, Al Feldstein
\nAn End, a Middle, a Beginning: Richard Matheson and His Impact<\/p>\n

Section Four: Slashers, Blockbusters, and Bestsellers<\/p>\n

Riding the Dark Wave: The Role of Dystopian Science Fiction in Popular Culture
\nCelluloid Asylum: O\u2019Bannon, Romero, Carpenter, and the Liberals Lose (and Find) Their Collective Minds
\nTerrible Beauty: Slasher Film Connections to Conservatism, Pornography, and Misogyny
\nKing of the Dead: Filmmaker George A. Romero on Politics, Film, and the Future
\nDan O\u2019Bannon: Not Gone, Not Forgotten
\nH.R. Giger: A Darkness Faster Than Light
\nThe Emperor\u2019s New Book [on the decline of horror publishing]
\nThe Doctor Is In: F. Paul Wilson
\nSounds Horrific: Art Rock, Soundtracks, and the Zeitgeist<\/p>\n

Section Five: A Century of Speculation<\/p>\n

Carnivora: The Dark Art of Automobiles
\nDavid J. Skal: Monster Kid Ambassador of Horror
\nSeasons in Hell
\nKris Kuksi: Dark Horizons in the Realm of the Senses
\nBluewater Comics\u2019s Darren G. Davis: On the Run in the Digital Age of Comics
\nThe H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival: Cosmic Chaos on the Silver Screen<\/strong>
\nS.T. Joshi: Champion of the Weird Tale<\/strong>
\nMarc Scott Zicree: As Timeless as Infinity<\/p>\n

Section Six: From (and Into) the Beyond<\/p>\n

Fangoria\u2019s Chris Alexander: Cinephilia, Music, and All the Rest of It
\nBruce Campbell: From The Evil Dead to Burn Notice and Beyond
\nThe Inner World of William F. Nolan
\nThe Mammoth Book of Body Horror
\nTwo of a Kind: Lee-Anne Raymond and Demetrios Vakras
\n\u201cCthulhu, a Vampire, and a Zombie Walk into a Bar…\u201d: Why These Themes, Why Now, and What\u2019s the Matter with Hollyweird?
\nJohn Shirley: The Tao of Identity
\nRay Harryhausen: A Note on the Passage of Giants
\nKneeling at the Dandelion Shrine: An Appreciation
\nWilliam F. Nolan and Ray Bradbury: Reflections
\nIntroduction: The Pope of Speculative Fiction
\nFuture Shock? (De)Parting Thoughts<\/p>\n

Appendices
\nIndex
\nAbout the Author<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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