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Skeleton Crew [v2 #1, July 1990] ($5.95, 64pp, quarto, cover by John Bolton) 6 · Straub: Eerie Fields Forever? [Peter Straub] · Dave Hughes & Nick Belcher · iv 11 · The Reploids · Stephen King · ss Night Visions 5, ed. Douglas E. Winter, Dark Harvest 1988 20 · Killing Note: An Interview with David Cronenberg · Philip Nutman · iv 26 · A Sprinkle of Dream Dust: Neil Gaiman · Matthew Pook · ar [Neil Gaiman] 32 · Night Gallery · Clive Barker · pi 35 · Playing God · Mark Morris · ss 39 · The House That Dripped Blood: John Bolton Interview · Dave Hughes · iv

Skeleton Crew [v2 #2, August 1990] ($5.95, 64pp, quarto, cover by John Bolton) 10 · Soft Centre · Shaun Hutson · ss 16 · The House That Dripped Blood: Stephen Harris Interview · Dave Hughes · iv 20 · The Loving Alien: James Cameron · Philip Nutman · iv 26 · Aliens Ate My Comics · Nick Gillott · ar 32 · Do Aliens Dream? · Adrian Rigelsford & Lee Brimmicombe-Wood · pi 39 · The Beast in Beauty · Nicholas Vince · ss 46 · Limited Editions: A Warning · Seamus A. Ryan · ar

Skeleton Crew [v2 #3, September 1990] ($5.95, 64pp, quarto, cover by John Bolton) 6 · Grotesques Before Nine · Brian Lumley · ss 20 · Origins · Steve Bissette · ar 22 · Swamped · Jonathan Key · ar 31 · Frankenstein · Steve Hambridge · pi 36 · A Walk on the Dark Side · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · ss 44 · Joe Dante Interview · Mark Lewis · iv 50 · A Writer in the Dark Lands: R. Chetwynd-Hayes · Stephen Jones & Jo Fletcher · iv

Skeleton Crew [No#, October 1990] ($5.95, 56pp, quarto) 6 · The Luggage in the Crypt: Ramsey Campbell · Nicholas Vince · iv 11 · Crisis · Stan Nicholls · ar 18 · Where Horror Began · Mike Ashley · ar 22 · Lovecraft Waits Dreaming · Simon McCulloch · ar 27 · Portfolio · Dave Carson · pi 32 · The Secret Song · Mike Ashley · bi [Edgar Allan Poe] 36 · The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle Aug 19 1843

Skeleton Crew [No#, November 1990] ($5.95, 56pp, quarto) 11 · The Luggage in the Crypt: Neil Gaiman · Nicholas Vince · iv 18 · Those of Rhenae · David Sutton · ss 24 · Making Up Good Tunes: Iain Banks · Stan Nicholls · iv 27 · Portfolio · Dean Ormston · pi 33 · Clean · Richard Holland · vi 35 · The Roots of Horror in Children’s Literature · Di Wathen · ar 38 · Tiff · D. F. Lewis · vi 43 · Apocalyptic Thinking: Alan Moore · Christian Lehmann · iv 48 · Amorph · Stuart Palmer · ss

Skeleton Crew [No#, December 1990] ($5.95, 56pp, quarto) 6 · Phantasmal Images: Simon Marsden · Stan Nicholls · iv 16 · The Unkindest Cut · Andy Lane · ar 18 · Seduction of the Innocents · Di Wathen · ar 20 · The Wit and Wisdom of Joe R. Lansdale · Nicholas Vince · iv 25 · Portfolio · Steve Skwarek · pi 31 · An Unremarkable Sod: Stephen Gallagher · Andy Lane · bg 38 · Ghoul at Midbite · David Hitchcock · cs

Skeleton Crew [January 1991] (£1.95/$5.95, 56pp, quarto) 4 · Deaditorial · Dave Reeder · ed 6 · Tell the Difference · Joel Lane · ss 12 · Luggage in the Crypt: Steve Gallagher [Stephen Gallagher] · Nick Vince · iv 18 · Twin Titans of Terror · Mike Wathen · ar 22 · Bye-Bye · Caroline Dunford · ar 28 · Portfolio · The Gurch · pi 33 · Moving Out · Nicholas Royle · ss 36 · Cut Dead: Jamie Delano · Michael Bonner · iv 42 · Jack in the Box · Jason Olroyd · ss 47 · Industrial Gothic: Stephen Laws · Brigid Cherry · iv

Skeleton Crew [February 1991] (£1.95/$5.95, 56pp, quarto) 4 · Deaditorial · Dave Reeder · ed 6 · Luggage in the Crypt: Kim Newman · Nick Vince · iv 13 · The Roots of Horror · Andy Sawyer · ar 16 · An Element of Corruption: John Bolton · Stan Nicholls · iv 23 · More Twin Titans of Terror · Mike Wathen · ar 29 · Sacrifice · Simon Clark · ss 35 · Casting the Net · Anon. · cl 40 · Roll On · Liz Halliday · ar 46 · Clinicians · John Pritchard · ss

Skeleton Crew [March 1991] (£1.95/$5.95, 56pp, quarto) 4 · Deaditorial · Dave Reeder · ed 6 · The Road to Hell · John Fraser · ss 11 · Luggage in the Crypt: Dave McKean · Nick Vince · iv 19 · Casting the Net · Anon. · cl 22 · Sweet Dreams Are Made of This · David Perry · ar 27 · Playing Possum · Gillian Paddock · ss 31 · Portfolio · Jim Pitts · pi 36 · Hand of a Princess · A. D. Leland · ss 38 · Mother Love · Gary Gibson · ss 41 · Caroline · Keith N. Brooke · ss 44 · Beautiful Losers · Jack Wainer · ss 50 · Last Writes · [The Readers] · lc

Skeleton Crew [April 1991] (£1.95/$5.95, 56pp, quarto) 4 · Deaditorial · Dave Reeder · ed 5 · Steampunk Timmy: Tim Powers · Andy Lane · iv 7 · Power Cut · Joel Lane · ss 10 · Lost Treasures of the Departed · David Lazell · ar 12 · Glow in the Dark · Andy Yanchus · ar 20 · Luggage in the Crypt: Charles L. Grant · Nick Vince · iv 26 · Who Did You Say Wrote That? · Mike Wathen · ar 32 · Closer to the Borderline · Fiona Mackie · pm 34 · Zombie Man: George Romero [George A. Romero] · Edward Murphy · iv 38 · Casting the Net · Anon. · cl 42 · Portfolio · Tony Todd · pi 50 · Last Writes · Laurence Hallam · lt

Skelos    (about)

Skelos [v1 #1, Summer 2016] ed. Mark Finn (Skelos Press, $11.95, 160pp, tp, cover by Gustave Doré) Subtitled “The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy”. A special Robert E. Howard Days edition (June 2016, 175pp) was produced as the first edition, limited to 30 numbered copies, signed by the editors and many of the contributors that were at Robert E. Howard Days 2016. There were a number of formatting changes between the two versions, but otherwise the only difference between the two editions is the poem by Kenneth Bykerk which is only in the Howard Days edition. Details supplied by Denny Lien. 4 · Skull Session 1 · Mark Finn · ed 7 · The Dead Unicorn · Scott Cupp · ss; illustrated by Mike Hunter 10 · The Drowned Dead Shape · Keith Taylor · nv; illustrated by Tomás Giorello 23 · Hungry · Charles Gramlich · ss; illustrated by Mike Hunter 26 · Diary of a Sorceress · Ashley Dioses · pm; illustrated by Georges Merle 28 · The Night Maere · Scott Hannan · ss; illustrated by Mike Hunter 34 · Nameless Tribes: Robert E. Howard’s Anthropological World-Building in “Men of the Shadows” · Jeffrey Shanks · ar [Robert E. Howard] 45 · The Nameless Tribe Drafts · Robert E. Howard · uw; illustrated by Mark Schultz 48 · Midnight in the Ebon Rose Bower · K. A. Opperman · pm; illustrated by Vasily Kotarbinsky 50 · One Less Hand for the Shaping of Things · Jason Ray Carney · nv; illustrated by Arthur Rackham 75 · The Writer · Jason Hardy · pm 76 · The Casualty of the Somme · Frank Coffman · pm; illustrated by Pieter Claesz & Jeffrey Shanks 78 · Grettir and the Draugr · Jeffrey Shanks · cs; illustrated by Samuel Dillon 90 · From the Cosmos to the Test-Tube: Lovecraft, Machen, and the Sublime · Karen Joan Kohoutek · ar [H. P. Lovecraft; Arthur Machen]; illustrated by Mike Hunter 100 · By Crom! · Rachel Kahn · ct 101 · The Yellow Death · David Hardy · ss; illustrated by Edward Matthew Ward 108 · Totem · Pat Calhoun · pm [Pat Dixon]; after a sculpture by Pat Dixon.; illustrated by Jeffrey Shanks 110 · The Burning Messenger · Matt Sullivan · ss; illustrated by David Cullen 118 · A Sword-Edge Beauty as Keen as Blades: C.L. Moore and the Gender Dynamics of Sword and Sorcery · Nicole Emmelhainz · ar [C. L. Moore]; illustrated by Margaret Brundage & H. R. Hammond 126 · Dangerous Pearl · Ethan Nahté · ss; illustrated by Gustave Doré 136 · Surtur · James McNew · pm; illustrated by John Charles Dollman 138 · The Bone Yard · [Various] · rc 155 · Contributors · Anon. · bg A Revelation Dream · Kenneth Bykerk · pm; Robert E. Howard Days edition only.

Skelos [v1 #2, Winter 2017] ed. Mark Finn (Skelos Press, $14.95, 202pp, tp, cover by Ernst Fuchs) Subtitled “The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy”. Details supplied by Denny Lien. 4 · Skull Session · Mark Finn · ed; illustrated by Allen Koszowski 7 · The Keeping of Eleanor May · Angeline Hawkes · ss; illustrated by Allen Koszowski 15 · Slayers at the Gate · Adrian Cole · ss 24 · Carmilla · K. A. Opperman · pm; illustrated by Esteban Maroto 27 · Clark Ashton Smith in Carmel · Scott Connors · ar [Clark Ashton Smith] 31 · The Abalone Song · George Sterling, et al. · sg The American Songbag, ed. Carl Sandburg, Harcourt, Brace, World 1927, as “Abalone” 32 · Of Mist, and an Heirloom Sword · Jessica Amanda Salmonson · ss [E. Hoffmann Price]; “in fond memory of E. Hoffmann Price”. 42 · The Eleventh Scarlet Hell [Thongor] · Robert M. Price · nv; illustrated by Val Mayerik 56 · By Crom! · Rachel Kahn · ct 57 · Warrior Women of History · Jeffrey Shanks · pi; illustrated by Samuel Dillon 66 · Xyre · Ashley Dioses · pm; illustrated by Mike Hunter 68 · Cracking Skulls with Arianne “Tex” Thompson · Mark Finn · iv 72 · Medicine for the Dead · Arianne “Tex” Thompson · ex Solaris 2015; illustrated by Allen Koszowski 76 · Bigger Than God · Cynthia Ward · ss; illustrated by Mike Hunter & Allen Koszowski 83 · The Night Realm · Chad Hensley · pm 84 · “The Shadow Kingdom” and the Origins of Gothic Horror in Robert E. Howard’s Heroic Fantasy · Charles Hoffman · ar [Robert E. Howard]; illustrated by Hugh Rankin 98 · A Revelation Dream · Kenneth Bykerk · pm Skelos Sum 2016; illustrated by Hieronymus Bosch 99 · Reverse the Charges · Jess Nevins · nv 121 · A Binding of Souls · W. H. Pugmire · ss; illustrated by Allen Koszowski 124 · Ride of the Witchfinder · Wade German · pm; illustrated by Mike Hunter 126 · The Skin Man · Milton J. Davis · ss; illustrated by Stanley Weaver, Jr. 140 · The Mockingbird · Pat Calhoun · pm [Ambrose Bierce]; after a story by Ambrose Bierce.; illustrated by Mike Hunter 142 · The Black Lion · Howard Andrew Jones · ss; illustrated by Jean-Léon Gérôme 154 · The Wood · Frank Coffman · pm; illustrated by Mike Hunter & Allen Koszowski 156 · Amarante: A Tale of Old Tharduin · Scott Oden · nv 178 · Shade of a Murdered Child · James McNew · pm; illustrated by Mike Hunter 180 · The Bone Yard · [Various] · rc 188 · The Alexander Romance as Weird Fiction · Benjamin Garstad · ar 194 · Contributors · Anon. · bg bc. · [back cover] · Allen Koszowski · cv

Skelos [v1 #3, Fall 2017] ed. Mark Finn, Jeffrey Shanks & Chris Gruber (Skelos Press, $14.95, 194pp, tp) Subtitled “The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy”. Details supplied by Denny Lien. fc. · The Ghost of a Flea · William Blake · cv 1819 4 · Skull Session: Buggy Whips in the Age of Jet Packs · Mark Finn · ed; illustrated by Allen Koszowski 7 · Ten Thousand Drops of Holy Blood · John R. Fultz · ss; illustrated by Jeffrey Shanks 16 · The Cats of Dornishett · Michelle Muenzler · vi; illustrated by Jeffrey Shanks 18 · The Book of Blasphemy · Keith Taylor · ss; illustrated by Mr. Zarono 28 · The Prideful Scribe · Ashley Dioses · pm; illustrated by James Doyle Penrose 30 · Dead River Revenge [Part 1 of ?] · Chris Gruber · nv; illustrated by Tim Truman & Allen Koszowski 48 · The Collection · Rhonda Eudaly · ss 51 · By Crom! · Rachel Kahn · ct 52 · The Boys from Atlantis · Bobby Derie · ar [Robert E. Howard; Henry Kuttner; Manly Wade Wellman]; illustrated by Virgil Finlay & Hugh Rankin 62 · By the Deep-Green Sea · Peter Rawlik · pm; illustrated by Jeffrey Shanks 63 · Images of the Southern Gothic · Aimee Reist · pi 73 · The Muttwhelp · Edward M. Erdelac · ss 82 · The Woman in the Feathered Mask · K. A. Opperman · pm; illustrated by Esteban Maroto 87 · The Killing · Scott Cupp · ss 89 · Whispers from the Darkness: The Enduring Appeal of Lovecraft and His Allies [Lynne Jamneck; S.T. Joshi] · Jason V. Brock · iv 97 · Edderkop · Lynne Jamneck · ss; illustrated by Jeffrey Shanks & Allen Koszowski 104 · Destroyers · Wade German · pm; illustrated by Valentin Serov 106 · Curse of the Dripping Blade · Christopher Fulbright · ss; illustrated by Jeffrey Shanks 116 · The Last Battle · Aurelia Wilder · pm; illustrated by Jeffrey Shanks 118 · Pawns in a House of Ghosts [Benhus (The King’s Blade)] · John C. Hocking · nv; illustrated by Allen Koszowski 136 · Rogue · Chad Hensley · pm Midnight Zoo v2 #6 1992; illustrated by Jeffrey Shanks 139 · Fat Charlie · S. Boyd Taylor · ss 145 · Invitation to Dine · Cynthia Vespia · ss; illustrated by Jeffrey Shanks & Allen Koszowski 149 · “It Seemed to Be a Sort of Monster”: Misrepresentations of the Cephalopod in the Fiction of Jules Verne and H. P. Lovecraft · Jack Staines · ar [H. P. Lovecraft; Jules Verne]; illustrated by H. P. Lovecraft, Alphonse de Neuville & Allen Koszowski 164 · Jirel · Pat Calhoun · pm [C. L. Moore]; after “The Black God’s Kiss”.; illustrated by Jeffrey Shanks 166 · Last Pale Light in the West · Josh Rountree · ss; illustrated by Jeffrey Shanks & Aimee Reist 177 · The Bone Yard · [Various] · rc _177 · Occult Detective Quarterly #1 · S. L. Edwards · lr _179 · Strange Crimes of Little Africa, by Chesya Burke · Nicole Givens Kurtz · br _180 · Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, by Anne Rice · Jim Lee · br _181 · Fungoid, by William Meikle · Dave Brzeski · br _183 · Absolution & Hunted · Luke Dodd · rv 186 · Contributors · [Various] · bg bc. · [back cover] · Allen Koszowski · cv

The Sketch    (about)

The Sketch [v6, #76, July 11, 1894] (10" x 14") Details supplied by John D. Squires. A Novel in a Nutshell 578-580 · A Dream of Red Hands · Bram Stoker · ss 587-598 · Journals and Journalists of Today: XXI: The Sun [T.P. O’Connor] · [Misc.] · iv

The Sketch [v61, #781, January 15, 1908] (Full Text) Details supplied by Denny Lien from an online copy at HathiTrust. 24 · The Hat · Constance Smedley · ss

The Sketch [v61, #782, January 22, 1908] (Full Text) Details supplied by Denny Lien from an online copy at HathiTrust. 56 · The Rubicon · Rafael Sabatini · ss