Thinking Horror Volume 2: The Horror Boom

Thinking Horror #2

by S.J. Bagley (Editor), Nick Mamatas (Interviewee), Steve Rasnic Tem

The second volume of THINKING HORROR: A JOURNAL OF HORROR PHILOSOPHY focuses loosely on the horror boom of the second half of the Twentieth Century and contains the following: THNKHRRR Interview: Steve Rasnic Tem, "The Word in Flesh, or Whenever We're Opened, We're Red: A Personal Meditation on Clive Barker's Books of Blood" by Gemma Files, "An Endless Laceration: The Limit Experience in Horror" by Daniel Pietersen, "The Impossible Literature of Thomas Ligotti, Puppeteer and Eschatologist" by D. P. Watt, THNKHRRR Interview: Lisa Tuttle, "'Your Worst Fear': Monstrous Feminine(ism) and the Horror Boom of the 1970s" by Andrew P. Williams, "The Grotesque in Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and 'Good Country People'" by Kristi DeMeester, THNKHRRR Interview: John Skipp, "A Faint Sense of Double Vision" Cinematic Tensions and Transmedial Anxieties in the Fiction of Files/Barringer, Wehunt, Tremblay, Link, and Ballingrud" by Christopher Burke, THNKHRRR Interview: Nick Mamatas, "His Knife, Her Shadow" by John Glover, "Nothing Will Have Happened: Speculation and Horror in the Anthropocene" by David Peak, "Collective Abjection: Social Horror in Stephen King's It" by Mike Thorn, "'Hello from the Sewers of NYC': T.E.D. Klein's 'Children of the Kingdom'" by Michael Cisco, Cover Art by Stephen Wilson

Genres: Nonfiction, Horror, Essays

400 pages, Paperback

First published April 4, 2019

Reviews

[Karl]

005 - Daniel Pietersen - "An Endless Laceration: The Limit Experience in Horror"
019 - D.P. Watt - "The Impossible Literature of Thomas Ligotti, Puppeteer and Eschatologist.’
033 -TKHR INTERVIEW: Steve Rasnic Tem.
087 -Onni Mustonen - "Blood-Borne: Viral Culture and the Ambiguous Corporeality in Splatterpunk Literature."
112 - TKHR INTERVIEW: Nick Mamatas.
145 - John Glover - "His Kknife, Her Shadow."
155 - Kristi Demeester - "The Grotesque in Flannery O’connor’s "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Good Country People.""
166 - TKHR INTERVIEW: Lisa Tuttle.
189 - David Peake - "Nothing Will Have Happened: Speculation and Horror in the Anthropocene."
207 - Andrew P.Williams - "Your Worst Fear: Monstrous Feminine(ism) and the Horror Boom of the 1970s."
227 - TKHR INTERVIEW: John Skipp.
314 - Mike Thorn - "Collective Abjection: Social Horror in Stephen King’s "It’’ "
337 - Michael Cisco - ‘Hello From the Sewers of NYC: T.E.D. Klein’s “Children of the Kingdom."
355 - Christopher Burke- "A Faint Sense of Double Vision: Cinematic Tensions and Transmedial Anxieties in the Fiction of Files/Barringer, Wehunt, Tremblay, Link, and Ballingrud."
374 - Kristin Peterson - "Of Rats and Men: The Horror of the Pied Piper"
384 - Gemma Files - "Mi Hem En Tow: Stephen King and the Challenge of Faith"

Cover Art by Stephen Wilson