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For more than fifty years, Ken Faig, Jr. has been a leading scholar and researcher on the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft. Over the decades he has made landmark discoveries that have clarified many aspects of Lovecraft's life, ancestry, and the influence of his personal experiences upon his weird fiction. In this new volume of essays, Faig continues his pioneering work in illuminating the obscurer corners of the people and places associated with the writer from Providence, R.I. A long piece on Lovecraft's English ancestry-his paternal forbears came from the county of Devonshire, in the southwest corner of England-traces the Lovecraft or Lovecroft name back to the 15th century. An essay on Lovecraft's uncle by marriage, Edward F. Gamwell, clarifies how this figure influenced his nephew's early writing. Faig also writes detailed histories of Lovecraft's first two residences in Providence, 454 and 598 Angell Street. Amateur journalism was a lifelong hobby of Lovecraft's, and Faig has done extensive research on the members of the Providence Amateur Press Club and on his occasional nemesis, the literary radical Elsie Alice Gidlow. Faig also directs attention to the interplay between Lovecraft's life and work as exhibited in such tales as The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and "The Dreams in the Witch House." Ken Faig, Jr. uses all the research tools at his disposal-from early maps of Providence to census records to tidbits found in Lovecraft's extant letters-to paint a fuller portrait of Lovecraft and his world, enriching our understanding of the man and his work.

Table of Contents A Swordly and Sorcerous Chronicle ........... Darrell SchweitzerBrian Murphy, Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery. One Pure Writer's Will ........... Michael D. MillerFarah Rose Smith, Of One Pure Will. A Laudable Gem ........... Géza A. G. ReillyAlex Houstoun, Copyright Questions and the Stories of H. P. Lovecraft. Men in Pain ........... Javier MartinezJeffrey Thomas, Carrion Men, ed. Scott Dwyer. The "Weird" in Isolation: An Interview with Gordon B. White ........... David Peak Ramsey's Rant: From Life ........... Ramsey Campbell Kreegah Bundolo! ........... Darrell SchweitzerWill Murray, King Kong vs. Tarzan, ill. Joe DeVito. Richard L. Tierney: A Brief Memoir ........... Leigh Blackmore Twilight of the Mage ........... Leigh Blackmore and Richard L. Tierney The Brief Biblio-historiography of a Consequential Scribbler ........... Edward GuimontS. T. Joshi, The Recognition of H. P. Lovecraft. Sprawling, Taxing, Rewarding ........... Géza A. G. ReillyWilliam Brown and David H. Fleming, The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia. Welcome Horrors from Down Under ........... Leigh BlackmoreDavid Kuraria, Bedding the Lamia: Tropical Horrors. A Journey through Time and Lovecraft ........... Greg GburJonathan Thomas, Avenging Angela and Other Uncanny Encounters. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Colder ........... Daniel PietersenHelen de Guerry Simpson, The Outcast and the Rite: Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-1938, ed. by Melissa Edmundson. Lamb of God ........... Michael D. MillerValdimar Jóhannsson, dir., Lamb. A World tour of Folk Horror ........... Jonathan BermanKier-La Janisse, dir., Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror. A Cavalcade of Death ........... Donald Sidney-FryerCatherine Prendergast, The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Triangle That Shook America. Suspension of Belief: A Look Back at James Herbert's Creed ........... Philip Challinor The Problem of Genre Expectation ........... Géza A. G. ReillyEllen Datlow, ed. Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror. Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner ........... June PulliamDavid Blue Garcia, dir., Texas Chainsaw Massacre. All the Right Reasons ........... Leigh BlackmoreTerry Dowling, The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros, 3 vols. About the Contributors

"Though I happened to read most of these stories in a snowbound country house over a chilly winter weekend, I don't think it was entirely the cold that made me shudder."-From T. E. D. Klein's forewordBarry Lee Dejasu published his first weird stories only a few years ago, but he has already emerged as a strong and vital voice in contemporary horror fiction. Born in Providence, R.I., erstwhile home of H. P. Lovecraft, Dejasu transfers the terrors of Lovecraft's day to the contemporary world of computers, smartphones, and the Internet.A Halloween party goes hideously awry in "Penumbra." A hapless tenant in an apartment building discovers cosmic terrors in the laundry room in "What's Below Beneath." Sinister tales of a walking dead man wandering the highways are the focus of "He Walks This Road at Night." An abandoned movie theater is the focus of strangeness in "Projector."In all his tales, Dejasu reveals an understanding of the psychology of fear, lending his narratives a distinctively disturbing quality. And his deft prose, his vibrant portrayal of character, and his skill in the gradual build-up of a horrific scenario go far in making Black City Skyline one of the most accomplished debut collections in recent years.

This volume includes stories, poetry, and essays by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), the Scottish novelist who worked extensively in the Gothic vein. Aside from writing such celebrated stories as "The Tapestried Chamber" and "Wandering Willie's Tale," Scott translated spectral poems by Goethe ("The Erl-King") and G. A. Bürger ("William and Helen," "The Wild Huntsman"), as well as writing weird poems based on Scottish legendry.Perhaps most significant of all, Scott emerged as one of the earliest and most penetrating critics of the Gothic movement. His reviews of Maturin's Fatal Revenge and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein are included here, as well as a long essay on the weird work of E. T. A. Hoffmann and several chapters on Gothic writers from his Lives of the Novelists (1825). Altogether, Scott's prose and poetic work represents a landmark in the development of Gothic horror.The Classics of Gothic Horror series seeks to reprint novels and stories from the leading writers of weird fiction over the past two centuries or more. Ever since the Gothic novels of the late 18th century, many writers have contributed to the development and enrichment of weird fiction as a literary genre, and their work has now been assembled in comprehensive, textually accurate editions by S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on weird fiction.

The second issue of Penumbra is highlighted by "Lost for Words," a new story by Ramsey Campbell, the leading writer of weird and supernatural literature of our time. In addition, veteran writers Darrell Schweitzer and Mark Samuels contribute original tales. Among younger writers, Curtis M. Lawson presents a science fiction/horror hybrid; Katherine Kerestman pens a skillful tale of vampirism; Scott J. Couturier, Geoffrey Reiter, Scott Bradfield, and Shawn Phelps offer glimpses of terror and strangeness; and Manuel Arenas contributes a moving prose poem. The issue also includes, as its classic reprint, Algernon Blackwood's first published weird tale. Among the articles in this issue, Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen examines religiosity in the early tales of Lord Dunsany; James Goho analyzes the roots of terror in the work of Caitlín R. Kiernan; John C. Tibbetts studies weird elements in the oeuvre of acclaimed science fiction writer Greg Bear; S. T. Joshi presents a comprehensive account of the weird work of Guy de Maupassant; and other essays discuss William Hope Hodgson, vampire poetry, Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborea cycle, John Collier, and other subjects. Adam Bolivar, Wade German, Ann K. Schwader, Leigh Blackmore, Maxwell I. Gold, and Frank Coffman are among the poets included in this issue. In all, Penumbra No. 2 is a cornucopia of the bizarre in fiction, essays, and verse.

"Mr. Cannyharme stalks the seedy Mission District of San Francisco in the aftermath of the hippie movement of the 1960s. Holed up in a rundown hotel, the seemingly harmless Cannyharme-aged, feeble, bent almost double with a crippling disease-is the focus of the supernatural terror in the novel. Jack Hale, who manages the hotel, is one of the few who sense the danger to society and the world that Cannyharme represents. With a motley band of young whores and drug dealers, he takes on the challenge to counteract the horrors that Mr. Cannyharme seeks to release upon an unsuspecting world. Mr. Cannyharme, written in a vibrant prose that brings to life the multitude of characters that populate the book, is a triumph of Lovecraftian terror, but also speaks of the way in which those who are regarded as the refuse of society can assert their dignity and self-worth in a grim environment. In this sense, it proves to be a novel affirming the triumph of the human spirit over the horrors facing it."--back cover.