Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

In the stories of new England speculative fiction writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft, characters seem incapable of the objective detachment requisite to an aesthetic judgment. When confronted with natural spectacles that ought to give rise to a feeling...

Duda, Heather L. The Monster Hunter in Modern Popular Culture. Jefferson: McFarland, 2008. 192 pp. Softcover. ISBN 978-0-7864-3406-0. $35.00. If vampires should be read as a mirror, reflecting the attitudes and beliefs of the time and place from...

MARY SHELLEY'S 1818 NOVEL FRANKENSTEIN HAS INSPIRED AN ALMOST uncountable number of film adaptations, many of which have in turn spawned their own sequels, series, spin-offs, mega-franchises, and finally parodies: the Frankenstein tradition has matured...

Hassler, Donald M., and Clyde Wilcox, eds. New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 362 pp. Cloth. ISBN 978-1-57003-736-8. $44.95. New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction is a follow-up...

HISTORY IS A TALE WE TELL OURSELVES ABOUT THE PAST, BUT THERE IS NO past, not here, not now. There is only the present, including the odd fragments from the wreck of the past that have washed ashore around us. We look these over, we read the words...

Redmond, Sean. Studying Blade Runner (Revised "Student" Edition). Leighton: Auteur, 2008. 95 pp. Trade Paper. ISBN 978-1-903663-79-0. $15.00. Though initially derided by audiences and critics--in fact prematurely relegated to endless cable television...

Clute, John. The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror. Cauheegan: Payseur & Schmidt, 2006. 162 pp. Cloth. ISBN-13: 978-0978911409. $35.00. Despite its modest size, this small volume is a veritable cornucopia of insights, observations,...

So, of his gentleness Knowing I love my books, he furnished me From mine own library with volumes which I prize above my dukedom --Prospero, Duke of Milan THERE ARE SEVERAL SIGNS TELLING US THAT J. G. BALLARD'S CANONIZATION process...

Telotte, J. P., ed. The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 356 pp. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0813124-92-6. $45.00. J. P. Telotte's excellent new collection of essays by a variety of scholars, The...

IN RESPONSE TO SPECULATIVE FICTIONS THAT PERPETUATE RACISM AND CULTURAL appropriation, writers engaged with postcolonial questions about representation employ science fiction and fantasy for the purposes of social and cultural critique. Their reterritorializations...

Verne, Jules. The Kip Brothers. Trans. Stanford Luce. Ed. Arthur B. Evans. Introduction and Notes by Jean-Michel Margot. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2007. 508 pp. Jacketed cloth. ISBN 978-0-8195-6704-8. $29.95. Verne, Jules. The Mysterious...

Whitley, David. The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2008. 154 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-6085-9. $65.00. Doing Disney has always been dangerous. For decades at regional, national, and even international academic...