Le Fanu Studies, a free online journal from Gothic Press edited by Gary William Crawford, is in need of essays for future issues. Essays may be on any aspect of J. Sheridan Le Fanu‘s life and works. Essays are also sought on Le Fanu’s contemporaries in supernatural or mystery fiction and also Irish authors of Le Fanu’s day.

The journal has its own house style loosely based on The MLA Style Manual. Essays should be under 15,000 words. For models of essays see the journal HERE

Wormwood #17, Autumn 2011 (edited by Mark Valentine) – containing an eclectic mix of essays on fantasy, supernatural and decadent literature – is now available from the Tartarus Press website.

Contents:
World Gone Wrong: H.P. Lovecraft’s Mythology of Loss (part one) by Joel Lane
Songs of the Archangel: Halcyon & Other Poems of Gabriele d’Annunzio in English by Daniel Corrick
Reginald Hodder: Author of The Vampire by James Doig
Ernest Bramah’s Max Carrados: The Sightless Supersleuth by Gary G. Garner
Donald Armour’s Swept & Garnished: A Rediscovered Masterpiece of Supernatural Horror by Robert Eldridge
Lilies Among the Thorns: An Overview of American Decadence by rj krijnen-kemp
Some Notes on Aickman’s Plays by Douglas A. Anderson
Under Review by Reggie Oliver
Late Reviews by Douglas A. Anderson
The Horror by Arthur L. Salmon
Camera Obscura by Mark Valentine