Dead Reckonings No. 36 (Fall 2024)

Table of Contents A Return to Horrific Form ........... Greg Gbur Laird Barron, Not a Speck of Light. A Dark Magician Meets a Victorian Sleuth ........... Leigh Blackmore Randall Collins, The Case of the Philosophers' Ring by Dr John H. Watson: A Novel. Some Notes on a Necroentity: Reflections on NecronomiCon Providence 2024 ........... Edward Guimont Ramsey's Rant: Taking My Shape ........... Ramsey Campbell The Hollowing of Hatred ........... Géza A. G. Reilly Scott R. Jones, Drill. Traducteur pour Le Fantastique: Brian Stableford, 1948-2024 ........... The joey Zone Ligotti and the Tradition of Wishful Selfhood ........... Katherine Kerestman Midsummer Shamblings: NecronomiCon Providence et al. ........... Darrell Schweitzer The Four-Fifteen Express ........... Amelia B. Edwards Ars Necronomica 2024: A Portal into Bleakness and Wonder ........... The joey Zone The Canadian Brick Wall ........... Géza A. G. Reilly Michael Kelly, ed., Northern Nights. A Truly Haunting Haunting ........... Darrell Schweitzer David Lowry, dir., A Ghost Story. Cultists Invade Providence: Reflections on NecronomiCon 2024 ........... David T. Zeppieri The Lingering Shadow of World War II ........... S. T. Joshi Ramsey Campbell, The Incubations. Portable Gothic: A Few Thoughts on Place ........... Karen Joan Kohoutek Updating Blackwood's "The Willows" ........... Darrell Schweitzer T. Kingfisher "The Earth Alone Lasts:" The Myth of Meaning in the Speculative Fiction of Robert W. Chambers ........... Katherine Kerestman Robert W. Chambers, Robert W. Chambers, ed. S. T. Joshi. When Everything Is Wrong and Nothing Is for Anyone ........... Géza A. G. Reilly Robert Guffey, The Expectant Mother Disinformation Hand-book. About the Contributors