{"id":43421,"date":"2020-11-10T05:43:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T02:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=43421"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:18:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T22:18:43","slug":"new-journal-issue-skelos-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/11\/10\/new-journal-issue-skelos-4\/","title":{"rendered":"New journal issue: Skelos #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weirdletter<\/em> has the TOCs for Skelos: The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy<\/a><\/em> #4 (Autumn\/Fall 2020). Of likely interest to readers of Tentaclii<\/em> are…<\/p>\n

* “Innsmouth Bus Driver” \u2013 by Mark Maddox (frontispiece)<\/p>\n

* “Postcards from Lovecraft” \u2013 Cliff Biggers (short story)<\/p>\n

* Wandrei on Clark Ashton Smith: An Introduction to \u201cEmperor of Dreams\u201d \u2013 Scott Connors<\/p>\n

* Dracula\u2019s Descendant: An Interview with Dacre Stoker \u2013 Anthony Taylor (Dacre being a leading Dracula expert)<\/p>\n

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On learning that the title has non-fiction, as well as fiction and poetry, I went looking for the TOCs for #1-3. Easier said than done, and only Amazon’s “Look Inside” saved the day. Amazon also shows me that #2 is in Kindle ebook, the others in paperback only. Here are the items likely to interest Tentaclii<\/em> readers…<\/p>\n

#1<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Nameless Tribes: Robert E. Howard’s Anthropological World Building in “Men of the Shadows” \u2014 Jeffrey Shanks.<\/p>\n

* From the Cosmos to the Test-Tube: Lovecraft, Machen, and the Sublime \u2014 Karen Joan Kohoutek.<\/p>\n

* A Sword-edged Beauty as Keen as Blades: C.L Moore and Gender Dynamics of Sword and Sorcery \u2014 Nicole Emmelhainz.<\/p>\n

#2<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Clark Ashton Smith in Carmel \u2014 Scott Connors. (Carmel, California)<\/p>\n

* “The Shadow Kingdom” and the Origins of Gothic Horror in Robert E. Howard’s Heroic Fantasy \u2014 Charles Hoffman.<\/p>\n

#3<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Whispers from the Darkness: An Interview with Lynne Jamneck and S.T. Joshi \u2014 by Jason V. Brock.<\/p>\n

* The Boys from Atlantis – Bobby Derie (article – unknown topic, but may be of interest).<\/p>\n

* “It seemed to be a sort of monster”: Misrepresentations of the Cephalopod in the Fiction of Jules Verne and H.P. Lovecraft \u2014 Jack Staines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weirdletter has the TOCs for Skelos: The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy #4 (Autumn\/Fall 2020). Of likely interest …<\/p>\n

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