Mythlore 144 Volume 42, Issue 2     (purchase below)

Spring/Summer 2024

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Special Issue: Fantasy Goes to Hell
— Janet Brennan Croft and Erin Gianinni

Tolkien, Augustinian Theodicy, and ‘Lovecraftian’ Evil
— Perry Neil Harrison

Substance Abuse: The Symbolic Geography of Hell in The Great Divorce
— Richard Angelo Bergen

Denial and Acceptance: A Core Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Modern Lyric
— Brian O. Murdoch

Orpheus and the Harrowing of Hell in the Tale of Beren and Lúthien
— Giovanni Carmine Costabile

Two Roads to Hell: Rebirth and Relevance in Musical Adaptations of Katabatic Myth
— Jarrod DePrado

Timeless Moments: Russell Kirk, Charles Williams, and Stephen King on the Afterlife
— Camilo Peralta

Hell on His Mind: Dean Winchester’s Journey to Hell and Back
— Anna Caterino

“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

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Notes and Letters

• Dating “The Dark Tower”: C.S. Lewis, the Nazis, and the Jews — 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 (Dick) Plotz — Janet Brennan Croft

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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 R. Gray
• Tarot and Other Meditation Decks: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Typology, 2nd edition, by Emily E. Auger — Laurel M. Stevens
• The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology by Paul R. Rovang — James Hamby
• 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
• Pursuing an Earthy Spirituality: C.S. Lewis and Incarnational Faith by Gary S. Selby — Sarah O’Dell
• The Literary Tarot, The Literary Tarot Classics Edition Guidebook, and Oracle’s Atlas: A Companion to the Literary Tarot Classics Edition from the Brink Literacy Project — Emily E. Auger
• The Medieval Worlds of Neil Gaiman: From Beowulf to Sleeping Beauty by Shiloh Carroll — Kris Swank
• J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe: Context, Directions, and the Legacy edited by Janka Kascakova and David Levente Palatinus — Nancy Martsch
• Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: The Meaning of Middle-Earth Today by Nick Groom — Laura N. Van Dyke
• Ursula K. Le Guin’s “A Wizard of Earthsea”: A Critical Companion by Timothy S. Miller, and Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea by John Plotz — David Bratman
• 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
• Journey Back Again: Reasons to Visit Middle-earth, Mythopoeic Press edition, edited by Diana Pavlac Glyer — Kristine Larsen
• J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy by Robert T. Tally Jr. — Bianca Beronio
• Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature, 2nd edition, by Allen Stroud — Douglas A. Anderson
• Briefly Noted:
  101 Middle Eastern Tales and their Impact on Western Oral Tradition, by Ulrich Marzolph — Daniel C. Snell
  The Road to Fair Elfland: Tolkien on Fairy-stories: An Extended Commentary, by Giovanni Carmine Costabile — Landon Loftin

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