Theresa Bane's Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology, which I last covered here, is still a while away from general release (originally slated for June, but looks like it'll be out in March).
In the meantime, I've just come across references to another addition to the vampire encyclopaedia genre.
But it's not by her.
I stumbled across this newbie while I was looking up info relating to Ronald Foust's "Rite of Passage: The Vampire Tale as Cosmogonic Myth" (1986). This lead me to Matt Cardin's blog entry, "What I Read in 2009".
I was scanning the entry for other vampire stuff, when I came across this little tidbit in his biographic entry on the sidebar:
The first page in the search was Stephen Jones' upcoming works, which reveals his contribution to it is an entry called "Vampires in Television". The publication date given is 2010 and he (courteously) lists the publisher: "ABC-CLIO, USA".
I checked out their website, which strangely has no listing for the book.
It's not even listed in Amazon.
But, I've also found that a bloke named Bev Vincent will also be contributing to the book (he's got four entries) and that Matt Cardin's webpage contradicts Jones' reference to the publisher. He lists it as Greenwood Press.
Yet, Greenwood Press' website has no listing for the book, either. Very odd.
Time to check out Joshi, himself.
In doing so, I found another contributor, Lisa Kroger, and also...Joshi's blog.
Here's what he has to say about the book in his news section, 12 December 2009:
Joshi is a well-respected literary critic of fantasy literature (mainly focusing on H. P. Lovecraft), so this is almost-certainly gonna be a brilliant project.
Can't wait!
In the meantime, I've just come across references to another addition to the vampire encyclopaedia genre.
But it's not by her.
I stumbled across this newbie while I was looking up info relating to Ronald Foust's "Rite of Passage: The Vampire Tale as Cosmogonic Myth" (1986). This lead me to Matt Cardin's blog entry, "What I Read in 2009".
I was scanning the entry for other vampire stuff, when I came across this little tidbit in his biographic entry on the sidebar:
He is also a successful freelance blogger, consultant, and copywriter, and will contribute several entries, including an examination of vampires and religion, to the forthcoming reference work "Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture," edited by S.T. Joshi.I hurriedly went a-Googlin' for the book.
The first page in the search was Stephen Jones' upcoming works, which reveals his contribution to it is an entry called "Vampires in Television". The publication date given is 2010 and he (courteously) lists the publisher: "ABC-CLIO, USA".
I checked out their website, which strangely has no listing for the book.
It's not even listed in Amazon.
But, I've also found that a bloke named Bev Vincent will also be contributing to the book (he's got four entries) and that Matt Cardin's webpage contradicts Jones' reference to the publisher. He lists it as Greenwood Press.
Yet, Greenwood Press' website has no listing for the book, either. Very odd.
Time to check out Joshi, himself.
In doing so, I found another contributor, Lisa Kroger, and also...Joshi's blog.
Here's what he has to say about the book in his news section, 12 December 2009:
I am currently working on a number of projects. Nearly complete is The Encyclopedia of the Vampire, a one-volume project commissioned by Greenwood Press (www.greenwood.com). It will contain entries, ranging from 250 words to 3000 words, on all aspects of vampirism in literature, history, media, and culture, with important contributions by Paula Guran, Elizabeth Miller, James Holte, Joyce Jesionowski, Tony Fonseca, and many others. The book is a little late, but I am still hopeful that it can appear in late 2010.As you might be able to tell, I'm quite excited about this upcoming work.
Joshi is a well-respected literary critic of fantasy literature (mainly focusing on H. P. Lovecraft), so this is almost-certainly gonna be a brilliant project.
Can't wait!
Glad you're excited about the project. I had an excellent time writing my entries, and the whole thing promises to be a really worthy volume.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the ABC-CLIO / Greenwood question, visit Greenwood's home page -- http://www.greenwood.com -- and look at the copyright notice at the bottom. All will be cleared up. :-)
Thanks for writing in, Matt!
ReplyDeleteIt certainly does sound quite promising, to say the least! Might give Melton a bit of a run for his money!
As to your last item...note to self: start taking notice of copyright notices on the bottom of websites!