Volume 42, Number 2 #144, Spring/Summer 2024; special issue Fantasy Goes to Hell (2024)
Editorial Introduction
Introduction to Special Issue: Fantasy Goes to Hell
Janet Brennan Croft and Erin Giannini
Articles
Tolkien, Augustinian Theodicy, and 'Lovecraftian' Evil
Perry Neil Harrison
Substance Abuse: The Symbolic Geography of Hell in The Great Divorce
Richard A. Bergen
Orpheus and the Harrowing of Hell in the Tale of Beren and Lúthien
Giovanni Carmine Costabile
“Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse”: Black Holes as Fantasy Gateways to Hell
Kristine Larsen
Hell as an Exploration of Sin: A Comparison of Alan Moore’s Providence to Dante’s Inferno
Zachary Rutledge
Notes and Letters
Dating The Dark Tower
Lee Oser
Whatever Happened to The Princess Bride?: Thoughts for Further William Goldman Research
G. Connor Salter
Some Observations on the Newspaper Reports on Tolkien’s Andrew Lang lecture in 1939
Matthew Thompson-Handell
In Memoriam: Peter J. Schakel
Janet Brennan Croft
In Memoriam: Richard Plotz
Janet Brennan Croft
Book Reviews
Monster Midway: An Uninhibited Look at the Glittering World of the Carny by William Lindsay Gresham
G. Connor Salter
Fantasy: How It Works by Brian Attebery
Glenn Gray
Tarot and Other Meditation Decks: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Typology, 2nd edition by Emily E. Auger
Laurel Stevens
The Inklings, The Victorians, and The Moderns: Reconciling Tradition in the Modern Age by Christopher Butynskyi
Hannah Frances Roux
Essays Triologue: Kepler, Twain, Lewis by Susan Dorman
Sharon L. Bolding
Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: The Meaning of Middle-Earth Today by Nick Groom
Laura N. Van Dyke
Mystical Perelandra: My Lifelong Reading of C.S. Lewis & His Favorite Book by James Como
Eleanor Knobil
A Joyful Outpost: Exploring the Household Economy of the Beavers from The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by Aaron Bair
Josiah Peterson
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy by Robert T. Tally Jr.
Bianca L. Beronio
Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature, 2nd ed., edited by Allen Stroud
Douglas A. Anderson
Briefly Noted
Editor
- Janet Brennan Croft, University of Northern Iowa
- Phillip Fitzsimmons, Administrator of Mythlore and Society Archives, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
- Sarah Gail Croft
- Verlyn Flieger, University of Maryland, College Park
- Charles Huttar, Hope College
- Peter J. Schakel, Hope College
- Rev. John W. Houghton, The Hill School, Pottstown
- Douglas A. Anderson, Independent Scholar
- Donna R. White, Arkansas Tech University
- Christopher Vaccaro, University of Vermont
- Robin Anne Reid, Independent Scholar
