{"id":58285,"date":"2023-01-21T03:06:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T03:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=58285"},"modified":"2023-01-31T07:14:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T07:14:53","slug":"new-book-s-t-joshis-horror-fiction-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/01\/21\/new-book-s-t-joshis-horror-fiction-index\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: S.T. Joshi&#8217;s Horror Fiction Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S.T. Joshi&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/stjoshi.org\/news2023.html\"><em>Horror Fiction Index<\/em> is published<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a listing of nearly 3,300 single-author horror collections from 1808 to 2010. The print edition is a whopping 741 pages, containing a list of the collections (arranged alphabetically by author, and chronologically within a given author\u2019s books) with their tables of contents, followed by indexes of names, collection titles, and story titles (nearly 30,000 of them).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a &#8216;story finding-aid&#8217;, so far as I&#8217;m aware, and thus doesn&#8217;t also list prefaces, scholarly notes (or not), etc. Now available in paperback <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Wu4dfr\">and ebook<\/a>. I was pleased to be able to supply two of his &#8216;unknown contents&#8217; listings. Joshi reports than only ten such &#8216;unknown&#8217; collections remained un-solved by the time the book went to print. Hopefully someone will now pick this up and produce an expanded second edition in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S.T. Joshi&#8217;s new Horror Fiction Index is published&#8230; a listing of nearly 3,300 single-author horror collections from 1808 to 2010. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/01\/21\/new-book-s-t-joshis-horror-fiction-index\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58442,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58285\/revisions\/58442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}