Studies in the Fantastic [#2]

Contents of this issue: “Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the New Dark Wave: The Decline and Fall of American Gothic Ethics” by Zachary Z. E. Bennett, “Mariah, My Soul-Mate by Daniel Pearlman; ‘Undoing the Mechanisms’: Genre Expectation, Subversion & Anti-Consolation in the Kefahuchi Tract Novels of M. John Harrison” by Leigh Blackmore, “The Value of the Supernatural in Fiction” by Lafcadio Hearn, “How Bria Died” by Michael Aronovitz, “Frustrated Love, Restless Death: On Robert Aickman’s ‘The Unsettled Dust’” by Philip Challinor, “To Horror by Robert Southey; What Happens in Ambrose Bierce’s ‘The Death of Halpin Frayser'” by S. T. Joshi, “Parental Shadows: The Influence of Robert Bloch’s Psycho on Thomas Harris” by Benjamin Szumskyj, and Selections from The Cutting Room Floor by Evan J. Peterson. Book Review: Bram Stoker’s Notes for Dracula reviewed by John Edgar Browning.