The Modern Weird Tale

S.T. Joshi has gained a reputation as something of an authority on horror and supernatural fiction. He has written a monograph on Ramsey Campbell and Modern Horror Fiction (Liverpool University Press, 2001). Also in the same year his H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia (Greenwood), and study A Dreamer and a Visionary: H.P. Lovecraft in His Times (Liverpool U. P.) appeared. Joshi’s study of The Modern Weird Tale is a sequel to his The Weird Tale (University of Texas Press, 1990), in which he analyzed “six writers of the ‘golden age’ of the horror tale (roughly 1880‐1940)”. This subsequent study focuses on post‐World...