{"id":3580,"date":"2011-11-15T10:13:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T07:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=3580"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T22:30:09","slug":"the-gothic-imagination-conversations-on-fantasy-horror-and-science-fiction-in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/11\/15\/the-gothic-imagination-conversations-on-fantasy-horror-and-science-fiction-in-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gothic Imagination: Conversations on Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction in the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gothic Imagination: Conversations on Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction in the Media<\/a><\/em> is shipping now. The table-of-contents makes it look a lot more interesting than the publisher’s blurb does (which foregrounds the William Shatner involvement, presumably in the vain hope that Trekkies will buy it)…<\/p>\n

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Preface by Richard Holmes \/ Prefatory Note by James Gunn<\/p>\n

INTRODUCTION: VOICES HEARD \u2018ROUND THE COSMIC CAMPFIRE by John C. Tibbetts <\/p>\n

THE LOVECRAFT CIRCLE <\/p>\n

* \u201cThe Provocative Abysses of Unplumbed Space\u201d: S.T. Joshi Explores the Universe of H.P. Lovecraft
\n* \u201cI Am Providence\u201d: Henry Beckwith on H.P. Lovecraft
\n* \u201cPsycho Is Not About a Shower Scene!\u201d: Robert Bloch
\n* \u201cFrom Providence to Liverpool\u201d: Ramsey Campbell
\n* \u201cCertain Things Associated with the Night\u201d: T.E.D. Klein <\/p>\n

THE HEROIC AGE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION <\/p>\n

* “Robert E. Howard and The Whole Wide World\u201d: Dan Ireland
\n* \u201cBatman and Me\u201d: Bob Kane
\n* “The Man Who Explained Miracles\u201d: John Dickson Carr
\n* \u201cSuperman is a Friend\u201d: Christopher Reeve
\n* \u201cWonder\u2019s Child\u201d: Jack Williamson
\n* \u201cRagnarok and Relativity\u201d: Poul Anderson
\n* “The Way the Future Was\u201d: Frederik Pohl
\n* \u201cI Tell People Stories\u201d: Wilson Tucker
\n* \u201cThe Complete Enchanter\u201d: L. Sprague De Camp <\/p>\n

THE BRADBURY COLLABORATIONS <\/p>\n

* \u201cStan and Ollie\u201d: Bradbury and Ray Harryhausen
\n* \u201cJoe and Me\u201d: Bradbury and Joseph Mugnaini <\/p>\n

THE BRADBURY CIRCLE (Friends and Associates) <\/p>\n

* \u201cLet\u2019s Put on a Show!\u201d: Julius Schwarz
\n* “Mister Monster\u201d: Forrest J Ackerman
\n* \u201cDandelion Chronicles\u201d: William F. Nolan
\n* \u201cThe Repairman Cometh\u201d: F. Paul Wilson
\n* \u201cA Bradbury Companion\u201d: Donn Albright<\/p>\n

DESTINATION: MARS! <\/p>\n

* \u201cBack to Barsoom\u201d: Bob Zeuschner Talks about the Mars Books of Edgar Rice Burroughs
\n* \u201cThis Is Where We Start Again\u201d: Kim Stanley Robinson <\/p>\n

THE EXTRAVAGANT GAZE <\/p>\n

* \u201cA Sublime Madness\u201d: Professors Albert Boime and Tim Mitchell Talk about Goya, Gericault, and Caspar David Friedrich
\n* \u201cScenes from Childhood\u201d
\n* \u201cAlbum for the Young\u201d: Maurice Sendak
\n* \u201cThere\u2019s a Lot of Reality to These Fantasies\u201d: Charles Sturridge and Fairy Tale
\n* \u201cThe Mysteries of Chris Van Allsburg\u201d
\n* \u201cGahan Wilson\u2019s Diner\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE…\u201d: TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET AND STAR TREK<\/p>\n

* Frankie Thomas on \u201cTom Corbett\u201d and the Early Days of \u201cLive\u201d Television
\n* Four members of the Enterprise crew speak out about Star Trek: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, De Forest Kelly, and George Takei <\/p>\n

THE MUSIC OF TERROR <\/p>\n

* \u201cSymphonie fantastique\u201d: Jack Sullivan <\/p>\n

POSTMODERN GOTHIC <\/p>\n

* \u201cThe Night Ride of Charles Beaumont\u201d: Jason V Brock
\n* “The Kiss That Bites\u201d: Susie McKee Charnas
\n* \u201cA Magellan of the Interior\u201d: Peter Straub
\n* \u201cThe Billion Year Spree\u201d: Brian Aldiss
\n* \u201cSavage Pastimes\u201d: Gothic Schlock and True-Crime Horrors: Harold Schechter and Rick Geary
\n* \u201cDifferent Engines\u201d: Alternate Worlds and Anachronistic Technologies: Cynthia Miller and T. L. Reid <\/p>\n

“THE HERESY OF HUMANISM\u201d: GREG BEAR AND GREGORY BENFORD<\/p>\n

EPILOGUE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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