The Hippocampus Press Review of Horror and the Weird in the Arts examines recent releases in print, film, and television. Ramsey Campbell contributes his regular column, together with reviews, articles, interviews, features on art and artists, and reminiscences of the 2017 NecronomiCon Providence convention, including a substantial travelogue by the convention's Poet Laureate, Donald Sidney-Fryer.TABLE OF CONTENTSHallowed Readings for Hallowe’en ........... Greg GburEllen Datlow and Lisa Morton, ed. Haunted Nights A Few Reflections........... Martin Andersson The Creature That Lives in the Dark ........... S. T. JoshiRamsey Campbell, Born to the Dark Worthy Wordsmithery ........... Tony FonsecaJason V Brock, The Dark Sea Within: Tales & Poems A Visitor to Arkham ........... Ramsey Campbell A Journey Beyond All Journeys ........... Donald Sidney-Fryer Curating Ars Necronomica 2017 ........... Brian L. Mullen III The Wonders of the Visible Weird: Ars Necronomica 2017 and Guest of Honor, John Jude Palencar ........... Dave Felton & Michelle Y. Souliere An Artist’s Dreamworld Incantation: The Work of John Jude Palencar ........... Michelle Y. Souliere FOREVER and a Day ........... Jason V BrockDarrell Schweitzer, The Threshold of Forever: Essays and Reviews. The History of the Horror Fiction Boom in the 1970s and ‘80s ........... Stephanie GravesGrady Hendrix, Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ‘70s and ’80s Horror Fiction Musings: NecronomiCon 2017 ........... Alex Smith In the Wild Beast Wood: The Triad of Mystery in the Artwork of Sidney H. Sime ........... Daniel Pietersen Horrors of the Everyday Life ........... June PulliamJordan Peele, dir. Get Out; Brian Falchuck and Ryan Murphy, FX AHS: Cult. A Century Too Late ........... Tony FonsecaSam Gafford, The Dreamer in Fire and Other Stories Standing Behind the Curtains A Conversation with T. E. D. Klein ........... Barry Lee Dejasu Uncanny Age: Joachim Kalka’s Gaslight ........... James MachinJoachim Kalka, tr. Isabel Fargo Cole, Gaslight: Lantern Slides from the Nineteenth Century A Mixed Bag ........... S. T. JoshiJustin Steele and Sam Cowan, ed. Looming Low, Volume 1 The Art of NecronomiCon ........... Dean Kuhta Ghosts, Beyond Metaphor and Psychopathology ... Jim RockhillZöe Lehmann Imfield, The Victorian Ghost Story and Theology The Weird and Eerie in Finest Form ........... Daniel PietersenJeffrey Thomas, Haunted Worlds Panels of People Screaming: An Interview with Sarah Horrocks ... Nathan Chazan Vibrant and Vivid: NecronomiCon 2017 ........... Elena Tchougounova-Paulson Nevertheless, She Persisted ........... Bev VincentStephen King and Owen King, Sleeping Beauties Thinking Visually: Comments on Comics ........... Alex Houstoun Revisiting the Dreamlands ........... Darrell SchweitzerKij Johnson, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe A Reflection: NecronomiCon 2017 ........... Dr. Géza A. G. Reilly 3
