cover to issue number four, Studies in Modern Horror      Release info: Editor: NGChristakos Release Date: 27 Feb 2006 Perfect Bound softcover chapbook Size: 5 ½ x 8 ½ Length: 39pgs. Suggested Retail Price: $7.-

Studies in Modern Horror A Scholarly Journal for the Study of Contemporary Weird Fiction Contents of Issue no. 4: "The Nemesis of Mimesis: Thomas Ligotti, Worlds Elsewhere, and the Darkness Ten Times Black" by Stephen Tompkins. Somewhere beyond ultra-nihilism and absolute nothingness dwells a darkness that is ten times black. Author Thomas Ligotti sets most of his fiction in orbit around this phenomena. Come and explore it's meaning with Stephen Tompkins. Also includes "Read the Darkness Ten Times Black", which is a detailed bibliography of Ligotti works examined in Tompkins' essay. "Reflections on a Feline's Pupil: The Fairy Tale Revisited & A Glimpse of Lovecraft's Ghost" by NGChristakos. A solicited introduction to Ray Garton's novella The Eye of the Guardian, published in 2005 by Bloodletting Press. For reasons unknown it was omitted from the final printed version, thus is presented here for the first time. "Introductions to the Tales from Terror Incognita" by Jeffrey Thomas. Delirium Books initially issued Jeffrey Thomas' Terror Incognita short story collection, which consisted of thirteen tales, as a signed and numbered hardcover limited to 200 copies in March 2000. Three years later, the volume was reissued as a trade paperback limited to 500 copies. The sole alteration between these two editions would be the exclusion of short introductory notes Thomas wrote for each tale from the trade paperback edition. These are the first time these introductions have been reprinted.