- Gary William Crawford
Gary William Crawford (born 1953) is an American
writer andsmall press publisher .He is the founder and editor of Gothic Press, which since 1979 has published books and periodicals in the field of
Gothic literature . From 1979 to 1987, Crawford produced six issues of the journal "Gothic", which features articles on Gothic fiction from 1764 to 1986. Later, the press published the horror poetry magazine "Night Songs". In recent years, the press has published The Gothic Chapbook Series, which features pamphlets of fiction, poetry and scholarship.He has numerous poems, stories, and articles in the small press. Crawford has recently begun the online journal, "Le Fanu Studies", about ghost and mystery story writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and is compiling internet databases on
Walter de la Mare andRobert Aickman . His M.A. thesis, "Sheridan Le Fanu's "In a Glass Darkly:" Ironic Distance and the Supernatural," Mississippi State University, 1977, is available from Crawford's Gothic Press. His poetry collection "The Shadow City" was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association. He has also written an essay aboutFritz Leiber for a book published by McFarland Publishers. His new collection of poetry, "The Phantom World", is now out from Sam's Dot Publishing.Bibliography
Poetry collections
* "Poems of the Divided Self" (1992)
* "In Shadow Lands" (1998)
* "The Shadow City" (2005)
* "The Phantom World" (2008)tory collections
* "Gothic Fevers" (2000)
* "Mysteries of Von Domarus, and Other Stories" (2006)Non-fiction
* "Horror Literature: a core collection and reference guide" (1981) (modern fiction section)
* "Ramsey Campbell " (1988)
* "J. Sheridan Le Fanu : A Bio-Bibliography" (1995)
* "Robert Aickman : An Introduction" (2003)External links
* [http://www.gothicpress.com Gothic Press website]
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