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Penumbra (online) [Volume 4 Issue 1, October 2014] (Musa Publishing, online)
This issue’s theme is “Paranormal Adventures”.
Details taken from magazine website.

· When I Had Eyes, I Didn’t See · Anna Yeatts · ss

· Hauntings · Laura E. Price · ss

· I Promise · Liz Colter · ss

· The Woman on the Bench · Stephanie M. Lorée · ss

· No Body · John P. Murphy · ss

· A Cold Welcome · Floris M. Kleijne · ss

· Extra Innings · José Iriarte · ss

Penumbra (online) [Volume 4 Issue 2, November 2014] (Musa Publishing, online)
This issue’s theme is “Aliens”.
Details taken from magazine website.

· Alien Pick-Up · Gini Koch · ss

· Uplifting · Michael Haynes · ss

· Not the Wrong Planet · Mickey Hunt · ss

Penumbra (online) [Volume 4 Issue 3, December 2014] (Musa Publishing, online)
This issue’s theme is “Arthurian Legend”.
Details taken from magazine website.

· X-Cal · Michael Ryder · ss

· The Knight of the Ice Moon · Pat Bowne · ss

· A Kingdom for a Horse · Aidan Doyle · ss

· La Dame du Lac · A. D. R. Forte · ss

· The Chorus to Nixy’s Swan Song, Allegro · Trent Walters · ss

Penumbra (about)

Penumbra [No. 1, (September) 2020] ed. S. T. Joshi (Hippocampus Press, $20.00, 318pp, cover by George C. Cotronis)
Subtitled “A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism”.
Details supplied by Denny Lien.

5 · Editorial · S. T. Joshi · ed

7 · If Destiny Still Reigns · Mark Samuels · ss

27 · Icy Bleakness and Killing Sadness: The Desolating Impact of Thomas Ligotti’s “The Bungalow House” · Matt Cardin · ar [Ref. Thomas Ligotti]

39 · Mormo · Wade German · pm

40 · The Cosmic Scale of Elfland · Michael D. Miller · ar [Ref. Lord Dunsany]

47 · The Truth About Vampires · Curtis M. Lawson · ss

59 · The Idea of the North in the Fiction of Simon Strantzas · James Goho · ar [Ref. Simon Strantzas]

90 · Las Llorasangres · Michael Parker · ss

108 · I Walked with a Zombie: The Tragicomic World of the Firefly Clan · Jason V. Brock · ar

116 · Static · Belicia Rhea · ss

118 · To Live at the Edge of a Black Hole · John Shirley · pm

120 · “The Terror of Solitude”: The Supernatural Fiction of Edith Wharton · John C. Tibbetts · ar [Ref. Edith Wharton]

148 · Et in Arcadia Jack · Adam Bolivar · pm

149 · The Slug · Jon Bockes · ss

160 · The Mysteries of the Worm · Darrell Schweitzer · pm

162 · Finding Sherlock Holmes in Weird Fiction · Nancy Holder · ar [Ref. Arthur Conan Doyle]

181 · Confessions · Stefan Grabinski; translated by Mark Samuels · ar
translated from the Polish (“Wyznania”, Polonia #141, 1926).

189 · Counter-Current · Michael Aronovitz · ss

202 · Delirium Vivens · Nicole Cushing · pm

203 · “The Weird Dominions of the Infinite”: Edgar Allan Poe and the Scientific Gothic · Sorina Higgins · ar [Ref. Edgar Allan Poe]

224 · The Crazy Mountains · Dylan Henderson · ss

238 · The Fantastic Flame · Leigh Blackmore · pm

239 · The Psychic Sleuth Who Survived · Lee Weinstein · ar

249 · The Hell of Mirrors · Manuel Arenas · ss

252 · The Resurgence of a Fallen Angel: Echoes of “The Ghost Pirates” in “The Mainz Psalter” · Hubert Van Calenbergh · ar

263 · Door Skin · Belicia Rhea · ss

266 · Monstrous Tourism: Petromodernity in China Miéville’s “Covehithe” · Rhonda Knight · ar [Ref. China Miéville]

281 · The Caves of Death · Gertrude Atherton · ss San Francisco Newsletter December 25 1886

290 · John Collier: A Weird Fantasist in Jester’s Motley · Darrell Schweitzer · ar [Ref. John Collier]

· Igbo Landing · Akua Lezli Hope · pm

311 · Notes on Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Penumbra [No. 2, (September) 2021] ed. S. T. Joshi (Hippocampus Press, $20.00, 310pp, cover by George C. Cotronis)
Subtitled “A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism”.
Details taken from magazine website.

· Editorial · S. T. Joshi · ed

· Lost for Words · Ramsey Campbell · ss

· A Green Shade · Geoffrey Reiter · ss

· The Interminable Abomination · Mark Samuels · ss

· The Dream of a Dead Poet · Manuel Arenas · pp

· Quiet · Shawn Phelps · ss

· Markovia · Katherine Kerestman · ss

· All Kings and Princes Bow Down Unto Me · Darrell Schweitzer · ss

· A Grave at the End of the World · Curtis M. Lawson · ss

· Like Vultures · Scott J. Couturier · ss

· The Holiday Transmission · Scott Bradfield · ss

· Spooky Action Across Time: Caitlín R. Kiernan’s Fiction Disturbs Noël Carroll’s Philosophy of Horror · James Goho · ar [Ref. Caitlín R. Kiernan]

· The Almost-Nonhuman: Life and Death in Kelly Link, Carmen Maria Machado, and George Saunders · Mairead Drake · ar [Ref. Kelly Link, Carmen Maria Machado & George Saunders]

· “Music in the Blood”: Greg Bear and the Gothic Imagination · John C. Tibbetts · ar [Ref. Greg Bear]

· Vampire Poetry · Kyla Lee Ward · ar

· Guy de Maupassant: Women, Madness, and the Horla · S. T. Joshi · ar [Ref. Guy de Maupassant]

· The Fantastic · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r)

· Free Will vs. Love: John Collier and Brian McNaughton · David Rose · ar [Ref. John Collier & Brian McNaughton]

· A Matter of Belief: Further Thoughts on Lord Dunsany and Religion · Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen · ar [Ref. Lord Dunsany]

· “The Quest of Iranon” and Don Rodriguez: Two Exercises in the Picaresque · Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer · ar [Ref. H. P. Lovecraft & Lord Dunsany]

· Icy Portents of Doom: Clark Ashton Smith’s Hyperborean Cycle and the Polar Myth · Ian Fetters · ar [Ref. Clark Ashton Smith]

· Hodgson, The Night Land, and William Morris · Lee Weinstein · ar [Ref. William Hope Hodgson & William Morris]

· A Mysterious House · Algernon Blackwood · ss Belgravia July 1889

· Borrowed Time · Ngo Binh Anh Khoa · pm

· When Old Gods Rattle Chains · Adam Bolivar · pm

· Night Hags · Wade German · pm

· The Absence · Geoffrey Reiter · pm

· Waiting in Carcosa · Ann K. Schwader · pm

· Summa Oblivia · Maxwell I. Gold · pm

· Basilisk Eye · Leigh Blackmore · pm

· Sad Steps Beneath the Silent Moon · Frank Coffman · pm

Penumbra [No. 3, (September) 2022] ed. S. T. Joshi (Hippocampus Press, $20.00, 318pp, cover by George C. Cotronis)
Subtitled “A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism”.
Details taken from magazine website.

· אמת · Stephen Woodworth · ss

· A Glint Amid the Corn · Geoffrey Reiter · ss

· In the Graveyard · Scott J. Couturier · ss

· Hands Up · Harley Carnell · ss

· Side Effects May Include · Barry Yedvobnick · ss

· The Candidate · Carl E. Reed · ss

· The Witch’s Lover · Garrett Boatman · ss

· The Hearse and the Highwaymen · Manuel Arenas · ss

· Killing the Pale Man · Darrell Schweitzer · ss

· The Lady Francesca: A Fantasy · Violet Sturgis Cosby · ss Selected Writings of Violet Sturgis Cosby by Violet Sturgis Cosby, Priv. Print., 1945

· Whispering Wires · W. H. Pugmire · vi Space and Time #20, September 1973

· The Many Lives of Carmilla Karnstein · Manuel Arenas · ar

· Trauma, Possession, and Witnessing in the Noir Supernatural Cityscapes of Joel Lane · James Goho · ar [Ref. Joel Lane]

· Dracula: Bram Stoker’s Love Letter to the Human Race · Katherine Kerestman · ar [Ref. Bram Stoker]

· From Superstitious Fantasy to Scientific Fiction: A Baconian Reading of the Weird Tale from Shelley to Lovecraft · César Guarde-Paz · ar

· “I Dream a Golden Dream”: A Brief Dunsany Correspondence—and Friendship · Darrell Schweitzer · ar [Ref. Lord Dunsany]

· The Weird Work of Mary Howitt · David Haden · ar [Ref. Mary Howitt]

· Everil Worrell: Women, Religion, and Weird Fiction · S. T. Joshi · ar [Ref. Everil Worrell]

· Under the Sign of the Hourglass: Elderly Protagonists in Horror Fiction · Silke Brandt · ar

· “O Thou Who Art; but Not by Man Described”: Searching for God in the Dark Seas of William Hope Hodgson’s Poetry · Geoffrey Reiter · ar [Ref. William Hope Hodgson]

· A Nice Day for a Red Wedding: Repurposing Celebrations for Horror · Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer · ar

· China Miéville’s “Säcken”: Folk Horror, New Weird, and Gender Politics · Deborah Bridle · ar [Ref. China Miéville]

· Sisterhood of Shadows · Wade German · pm

· Nyarlathotep · Ngo Binh Anh Khoa · pm

· The Instructive Pleasures of Horror Fiction · Carl E. Reed · pm

· Evolution of a Younger God · Melissa Ridley Elmes · pm

· The Last Halloween · John C. Tibbetts · pm

· The Ornamental Hermit · Kurt Newton · pm

· She’s Walking Home · G. O. Clark · pm

· The Kannibaali · Frank Coffman · pm

· The Dead Learn Nothing · Ann K. Schwader · pm

· An Edwardian Quartet · Geoffrey Reiter · pm

· I Know There Are Giants Under Our Hills · Darrell Schweitzer · pm

· Notes on Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Penumbra [No. 4, (October) 2023] ed. S. T. Joshi (Hippocampus Press, $20.00, 318pp, cover by George C. Cotronis)
Subtitled “A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism”.
Details taken from magazine website.

· Adept · Geoffrey Reiter · ss

· Come Home, My Children, the Sun Is Gone Down · Arthur Staaz · ss

· Just Like Them · Norbert Góra · ss

· In Stone · Livia E. De Souza · ss

· Malevolence · Harris Coverley · ss

· Night of Pan · Scott J. Couturier · ss

· Ronin: The Combat Journal of Mark Bullet · Carl E. Reed · ss

· Azraelle, the Lich-Queen · Manuel Arenas · ss

· Beyond the Wall of Pain · Garrett Boatman · ss

· The Manger · Michael Aronovitz · ss

· Nightrider · Joe Pan · ss

· Those Kids Just Don’t Listen · Katherine Kerestman · ss

· An Interview with John Langan · Darrell Schweitzer · iv [Ref. John Langan]

· The Weirding of Climate Change in China Miéville’s “Polynia” and “Covehithe” · Deborah Bridle · ar [Ref. China Miéville]

· The Day of Domino: Capitalist Monstrosity in Thomas Ligotti’s My Work Is Not Yet Done · Christopher Brawley · ar [Ref. Thomas Ligotti]

· McNaughton’s Witches · David Rose · ar

· Peter Straub and the Magic Taxi · John C. Tibbetts · ar [Ref. Peter Straub]

· Anthony M. Rud: Consummate Professional · S. T. Joshi · ar [Ref. Anthony M. Rud]

· “Bunyips in the Mulga”: A Distant Appraisal · Duncan Norris · ar [Ref. Anthony M. Rud]

· Frontiers and Fences: An Australian’s Rumination on Stereotype and Authenticity in Anthony M. Rud’s “Bunyips in the Mulga” · Ellen J. Greenham · ar [Ref. Anthony M. Rud]

· C. L. Moore’s “To What Dim Goal” and Its Progeny · Marcos Legaria · ar [Ref. C. L. Moore]

· Irish Cultural Hauntings in Dorothy Macardle’s Earth-Bound · James Goho · ar [Ref. Dorothy Macardle]

· Bunyips in the Mulga · Anthony M. Rud · na Golden Fleece November 1938

· Across the Wine-Dark Sea · D. J. Tyrer · pm

· Through Enchantment · Geoffrey Reiter · pm

· The Dead Have Left a Wake-up Call · John Shirley · pm

· Mantic Moon · Leigh Blackmore · pm

· Ancient Teeth · Maxwell I. Gold · pm

· Cassilda, November · Ann K. Schwader · pm

· Scabrous Oak · Steven Withrow · pm

· Transcendence · Ngo Binh Anh Khoa · pm

· Lords of Halloween · K. A. Opperman · pm

· Revenants · Wade German · pm

· Slayer of Suns · Scott J. Couturier · pm

· Ysella · Oliver Smith · pm

· When Mount Pulag Awoke · Dmitri Akers · pm

Penumbric Speculative Fiction (about)

Penumbric Speculative Fiction [v1 #1, June 2002] ed. Jeff Georgeson (Creative Press, 25pp, ebook, cover: The Last Sunset by James Cukr) (PDF)

2 · First Editorial · Jeff Georgeson · ed

3 · Friends, Family, and Godzilla · Jeff Georgeson · iv [Ref. James Cukr]

6 · Misclassified Romance · Stan Yan · ct

9 · Strange Forces · Rebecca Norman · pm

10 · Damsel’s Last Date · Colleen Donnelly · vi; illustrated by Peri Charlifu

13 · Hector · T. Motley · cs

14 · Rita · Leslie Aguillard · vi; first place contest winner.

17 · The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether · Eddy Von Mueller · cs

21 · Path · Rebecca Norman · pm

25 · Contributors’ Bios · [uncredited] · bg

Penumbric Speculative Fiction [v1 #3, October 2002] ed. Jeff Georgeson (Creative Press, 33pp, ebook, cover: Stand Alone Complex by Production I.G.) (PDF)

2 · It’s a Happy, Creepy Time of Year · Jeff Georgeson · ed

3 · Building on a Masterpiece · Jeff Georgeson · iv [Ref. Kenji Kamiyama & Yoshiki Sakurai]

8 · The Student’s Nightmare · Anita Harkess · ss; illustrated by Michael Connolly

10 · Misclassified Romance · Stan Yan · ct

12 · Bill and the Night · Leslie Aguillard · ss; illustrated by Leslie Aguillard

16 · Seeds · Peri Charlifu · ss

17 · Hector · Brian Comber · il

30 · Cthulhu · Peri Charlifu · il

31 · Life · Robert Elrod · cs

33 · Contributors’ Bios · [uncredited] · bg

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