The first issue of Studies in the Fantastic, the twice-yearly “Journal of the Supernatural, Fantastic, and Weird in Literature and Other Arts” edited by S.T. Joshi, is now available. Published by the University of Tampa Press, single copies of the 128-page journal cost $12, or a one-year (two-issue) subscription is available for $20.
The first issue’s contents include:
Editorial by S.T. Joshi
“Apparition of a Genre: The Psychical Case Study in the Pre-Modernist British Short Story” by George M. Johnson
“Dark Fantasy and Compulsion in Heinrich Marschner’s Der Vampyr” by Robert H. Waugh
“Two Weird Tales: ‘Passenger Bastion’ & ‘Into Your Tenement I’ll Creep'” by Jonathan Thomas
New Verse
     “October” by Fred Phillips
     “Ancient Echoes (Chaco Canyon)” by Ann Schwader
     “Recall” by Leigh Blackmore
“The Icy Depths of Robert Aickman’s Niemandswasser” by Philip Challinor
“‘Through the Gates of Darkness’: The Cosmopolitan Gothic Fiction of Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker” by John Langan
“A Spider in the Distance” by Joseph S. Pulver
“On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror (1773)” by Anna Letitia Barbauld
Vintage Verse:
     “Out in the Dark” by Edward Thomas
     “The Wharf of Dreams” by Edwin Markham
     “The Jongleur” by Madison Cawein
“‘Every Night a Magic Door’: An Approach to the Weird Verse of Victor Daley” by Phillip A. Ellis
“Barbarism vs. Civilization: Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft in their Correspondence” by S.T. Joshi
Notes on Contributors