Section One: The Darkest Age
The Smoldering Past: The Creation of the Modern from Frankenstein
and Dracula to the Great War and Beyond
“Cosmic Introspection”: Lovecraft’s Attainment of Personal Value by
Way of Infinite Insignificance
Forrest J Ackerman: Fan Zero
Gathering Darkness: In Appreciation of the Artists of Weird
Tales
Frank M. Robinson: First Fandom and Beyond
Section Two: Things Become
The Burden of Now: Welles’s “Panic Broadcast,” World War II, and
Creeping Anomie
Ray Bradbury: The Boy Who Never Grew Up
Cinematic Dream Logic: How Movies Permanently Altered the Fabric of
Reality
Individual Sexual Liberation Becomes Social Emancipation: Playboy
Changes the World
Harlan Ellison®: L’Enfant Terrible (Sort Of)
Section Three: The Rise of the Speculative Mind
Rod Serling: Articulating the American Nightmare
A Howling at Owl Creek Bridge: Observations on Two Important
Twilight Zone Episodes
George Clayton Johnson: A Touch of Strange
L’Âge d’Or to Götterdämmerung: How Bradbury, Serling, Beaumont, and
“The Group” Shaped a Pop Future
Roger Corman: Socially Conscious Auteur
Finding Sanctuary: Running from the Zone to Logan
The Long Nuclear Shadow: Atomic Horror, Godzilla, and the Cold
War
The Horror of It All! EC and the Beginnings of Modern Media
HOOHAH!
Madly Yours, Al Feldstein
An End, a Middle, a Beginning: Richard Matheson and His Impact
Section Four: Slashers, Blockbusters, and Bestsellers
Riding the Dark Wave: The Role of Dystopian Science Fiction in
Popular Culture
Celluloid Asylum: O’Bannon, Romero, Carpenter, and the Liberals
Lose (and Find) Their Collective Minds
Terrible Beauty: Slasher Film Connections to Conservatism,
Pornography, and Misogyny
King of the Dead: Filmmaker George A. Romero on Politics, Film, and
the Future
Dan O’Bannon: Not Gone, Not Forgotten
H. R. Giger: A Darkness Faster Than Light
The Emperor’s New Book: How Stephen King Saved Horror, Created
Clive Barker (and Sam Raimi) . . . and Killed Publishing
The Doctor Is In: F. Paul Wilson
Sounds Horrific: Art Rock, Soundtracks, and the Zeitgeist
Section Five: A Century of Speculation
Carnivora: The Dark Art of Automobiles
David J. Skal: Monster Kid Ambassador of Horror
Seasons in Hell
Kris Kuksi: Dark Horizons in the Realm of the Senses
Bluewater Comics’s Darren G. Davis: On the Run in the Digital Age
of Comics
The H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival: Cosmic Chaos on the Silver
Screen
S. T. Joshi: Champion of the Weird Tale
Marc Scott Zicree: As Timeless as Infinity
Section Six: From (and Into) the Beyond
Fangoria’s Chris Alexander: Cinephilia, Music, and All the Rest of
It
Bruce Campbell: From The Evil Dead to Burn Notice and Beyond
The Inner World of William F. Nolan
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror
Two of a Kind: Lee-Anne Raymond and Demetrios Vakras
“Cthulhu, a Vampire, and a Zombie Walk into a Bar . . .”: Why These
Themes, Why Now, and What’s the Matter with Hollyweird?
John Shirley: The Tao of Identity
Ray Harryhausen: A Note on the Passage of Giants
Kneeling at the Dandelion Shrine: An Appreciation
William F. Nolan and Ray Bradbury: Reflections
Introduction: The Pope of Speculative Fiction
Future Shock? (De)Parting Thoughts
Appendices
Index
About the Author
Jason V Brock is an award-winning writer, editor, filmmaker, composer, and artist. He has been widely-published online, in comic books, magazines, and anthologies, such as Butcher Knives & Body Counts, Simulacrum and Other Possible Realities, Fungi, Weird Fiction Review, Fangoria, and many others.
Imagine your favorite late night college radio show. And the deejay
is Jason V Brock, the author of this book, Disorders of Magnitude.
You rely upon Jason to provide insights and intriguing facts as he
connects the dots. Good, so far? Well, it gets even better. We’re
talking about a multitude of connections, some from on high and
some from on low. It’s not easy to categorize it all but Brock
manages to collect a lot of essential wisdom and in a very
accessible presentation. The college radio analogy is fitting since
Disorders of Magnitude falls under an academic book category. It is
right at home as part of a college course. But it is also the
perfect companion for anyone interested in a deeper understanding
of where we are today in terms of the entertainment we consume,
particularly dark fantasy.
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