Seriously Weird

Contents: Greg Ratcliffe: Terror Australis: Rodney Hall's The Second Bridegroom - Maggi Phillips: Madame Koto: Grotesque Creatrix or the Paradox of Psychic Health? - Mark Davies: Aspects of the Grotesque in Rushdie's The Satanic Verses - Ian Alexander: The Twitching of an Amputated God: Grotesque Doubling in Conrad's Victory - Gerry Turcotte: "Generous, Refined, and Most Self-Denying Fiends": Naming the Abomination in James De Mille's Strange Manuscript - Janeen Webb and Andrew Enstice: Domesticating the Monster - Sylvia Kelso: Monster Marks: Sliding Significations of the Grotesque in Popular Fiction - John Woodrow Presley: "Kakaopoetic Lippudenies of the Ungumptious": Imagery of Art and the Artist in Finnegans Wake - Paul Starr: More Than Organic: Science Fiction and the Grotesque - Michael Tolley: Grotesque Imaginings: Peaking through Keyholes - Alice Mills: Fungus and Sex - Michael Carter: Perspective, Oil Painting and the Ends of the World - Linda Gordon: The Surrealist Grotesque - Terrie Waddell: Revelling in Dis-play: The Grotesque in Absolutely Fabulous - Annita Boyd: Conventional Texts - Experimental Contexts: The Institutional Use of Horror Films in Experimental Psychology - Patrick West: The "Inrush of Desire" or the 'Grotesque of the Grotesque': A Feminist Reappraisal of Julia Kristeva's Theory of Gender.

The Editor: Alice Mills is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Children's Literature at the University of Ballarat in Ballarat, Australia. She received her M.Litt. from the University of Cambridge. She is widely published in the fields of fantasy and children's literature and edited the Random House Children's Treasury.