Bibliography

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Fiction

★ BOOKS

Unikirja [Dreambook]. Short Story Collection. Completing final stories, submitting to publisher early 2008.

Jane Quiet. Comic book. Story by K. A. Laity; Designed and illustrated by Elena Steier. Crazy Mama Productions, March 2008.

Pelzmantel: A Medieval Tale. Novel. Spilled Candy Books, Feb 1, 2003. ★ Nominated for the Aesop Prize of the Children's Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society and for the International Reading Association Children's Book Award.

The Mangrove Legacy: a comic gothic novel about mystery, romance and pockets (in progress as a serial).

★ SHORT WORKS

"High Plains Lazarus." Short story. Dark Distortions Vol. 2. Ed. Molly Feese. Lincoln, NE: Scotopia Press, 2008. Forthcoming.

"Fluorescence." Short story. The Harrow (July 1008): forthcoming.

"Eating the Dream." Short story. Femspec 8.1 (2008): forthcoming.

"Tangled up in Some Sort of Cerulean Hue." Short story. Ephemera 3 (December 2007): 49-52.

"Raising Lempi." Short story. Circle 100 (Winter 2007): 31-33.

"Corrections to the Rules of Fimble Fowl (for 3 players or 4)." Humor. Wild Violet 6.2 (2007).

"Palakainen." Short story. New World Finn 7.2 (April-June 2007): 4-6.

"Songs of Defiance." Poem. Bayou Review (Spring 2006): 53-54.

"On Buffalo Bayou." Short story. New Texas Review (2005): 92-108.

"Vipunen." Short story. New World Finn 5.3 (Jul-Sep 2005): 22-24. Reprinted: Mythic Passages (July 2007).

"Sun Thief." Short story. Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXI . New York: DAW Books, 2004. 133-142.

"Kerttu." Short story. New World Finn 4.2 (April-June 2004): 7-9.

When Little Joe the Krampus Met. Chapbook with The Joey Zone. December 2003.

"Sacrifice." Short story. New World Finn 3.2 (April-June 2002): 22-23.

"Touched by an Angel." Short story. Delirium (forthcoming).

"Wordgeryne." Short story. Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries 5 (June 2002): 42-46.

The Willimantic Frogs. Chapbook. May 2001.

"Sinikka Journeys North." The Beltane Papers 25 (2001): 14-19. Reprinted: Mythic Passages (February/March 2004).

"Walpurgisnacht." The Seeker Journal 13.5 (2001): 6-9. Reprinted: The Pagan Activist, Jan 2007.

Three Penny Dreadfuls. Chapbook. June 1998.

"A Gift House." Masters of Terror's House of Horror (April 1998).

"The Eleventh Commandment." Rictus 9 (April 1997) .

"Another Metamorphosis: A Moral Tale About Obsession." Short story. Dream Forge (November 1996). Online.

"Revelation." The Official Clive Barker Page, www.clivebarker.com. Winner, MGM/United Artists/Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions Short Story Contest, November 1995.

Plays

Lumottu. Play (part of Unikirja). Excerpt to appear in New World Finn 9.2 (Spring 2008).

Bell, Book & Candle: A Trilogy of ten-minute plays. The first two are under submission; the third still developing. Bell appears in the Spring Equinox 2008 issue of Mused, the BellaOnline literary review.

Con-Eire: A Play for Voices [premiered at Trinoc*coN 2006]. Aino Press, 2007. Distributed by Lulu.com.
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Fiasco: A Comic Revue. Under submission. Download a free reading copy.

The Infamous Medieval Studies' Holiday Party Plays:

The Lost Chemistry Plays:

Non-Fiction

★ BOOKS

Elf-shot and Other Mysterious Maladies: New Scholarship on Old English Charms, with Richard Scott Nokes. Under submission Blackwell Books.

Blood Feasts and Roof Riding: Women as Witches in Anglo-Saxon England. In preparation.

★ COLUMN

"Medieval Magic" (bi-weekly) The Daily Spell.

★ ESSAYS

"'Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children?': The Case for Terry Gilliam's Tideland." American Horror Film Today. Ed. Steffen Hantke. Forthcoming 2008.

"Grimma Gaest." Human Cuisine. Eds. Ken Albala and Gary Allen. NY: Book Surge, 2008. 209-213.

"The Virgin Victim: Re-imagining a medieval folk ballad in The Virgin Spring and Last House on the Left." Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture. Eds. Sharon R. Sherman and Mikel J. Koven. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2007. 180-196.

"Roses, Beads and Bones: Gender, Borders and Slippage in Tove Jansson's Moomin Comics." Tove Jansson: A Collection of Critical Essays Eds. Kate McLoughlin and Malin Lidström Brock. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. 166-183.

"Up on the Roof: Understanding an Anglo-Saxon Healing Practice." Societas Magica Newsletter 18 (Fall 2007): 1-8.

"Imagineer: Clive Barker's Queering of the Conservative Bent of Horror Literature." Horrifying Sex: Essays on Sexual Difference in Gothic Literature. Ed. Ruth Bienstock Anolik. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 248-258.

"Domus inferna Sancti Guthlaci: A Rediscovery of the Twelfth-Century Narrative of The Saint and the Money Pit." The Interplanetary Journal of Comic Arts: A Festschrift in Honor of John Lent. Ed. Michael G. Rhode. Washington DC: JLME, 2007. 13-27.

"The Sorcerer." Icons of Fantasy and Horror. Ed. S. T. Joshi. Greenwood Press, 2006. 565-589.

"Living the Mystery: Sacred Drama Today." The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic 3 (2006): 263-276.

"Mr. Punch in Literary Space: Post-Apocalyptic Performance Ritual in Riddley Walker." Puppetry International Magazine 19 (Spring and Summer 2006): 26-30.

"Picking up the chalk again." Quiet Mountain Essays 3.4 (Oct 2005).

"Illusory Adversaries?: Images of Female Power in Sandman: The Kindly Ones." The Sandman Papers. Ed. Joe Sanders. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2006. 65-76.

"Clive Barker" and "Books of Blood." Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia. Eds. S. T. Joshi and Stefan Dziemianowicz. Greenwood Press, 2005. 80-84, 138-139.

"Clive Barker" and "Ramsey Campbell." Supernatural Fiction Writers. 2nd edition. Ed. Richard Bleiler. Farmington Hills, MI: Scribners, 2003. 61-70, 177-188.

"Translating Saint as (Vi)king: St. Olaf in the Heimskringla." Viator 35 (2004): 169-202.

"Smokescreens: Transparent Disguises, Fog and Smoke in Fostbroedra saga ." In preparation.

"Reconciling the Dominions: Brigit as Heroic Saint in the Old Irish Bethu Brigte ." Revising per comments from Modern Philology.

"From SBIGs to Mildred's Inverse Law of Trailers: Skewing the Narrative of Horror Fan Consumption." Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear. Ed. Steffen Hantke. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. 173-190.

"Constructing a Female Hero: Iconography in Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adle Blanc-Sec." International Journal of Comic Art 4.1: 163-169.

"False Positives: The Katherine-Group Saints as Ambiguous Role Models." Magistra 7.2: 64-99.

"A High Steppin' Filly: Effluent Juissance in Dame Darcy's Meatcake." Indy: Spring 1998. (25 ms pp) Reprinted as "Dame Darcy e os poderes da BD" in Quadrado 3:3 (2001): 46-52.

Reviews

Deleuze and Horror by Anna Powell. Book review. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 17.3 (2008): forthcoming.

Monsters of our Own Making: The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear by Marina Warner. Book review. Journal of Folklore Research (Jan 2008).

Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 2, by Tove Jansson. Book Review. New World Finn 7.4 (Winter 2008): 25.

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer. DVD review. Up Against the Wall 10 (December 2007).

The Mindscape of Alan Moore. DVD review. Up Against the Wall 10 (December 2007).

The Magical Self: Body Society and the Supernatural in Early Modern Rural Finland by Laura Stark. Book Review. Journal of Folklore Research (Sept 2007).

"Jodorowsky Box." DVD Review. Up Against the Wall 8 (September 2007).

Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 1, by Tove Jansson. Book Review. International Journal of Comic Art 9.1 (2007): 710-11.

Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot. Book Review. Up Against the Wall 7 (June 2007).

"Fun with Sledgehammers or in Search of the Sampo." Film Review [Jade Warrior]. Up Against the Wall 6 (April 2007).

"Standing on the Beach: Terry Gilliam's Tideland." Film Review. Up Against the Wall 6 (April 2007).

Boskone 44: or Life as a Small Press Author at a Big Con. Con Review. IROSF 4.3 (March 2007).

Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie. Book Review. Up Against the Wall 5 (Feb 2007).

How Very Interesting: Peter Cook's Universe and All that Surrounds It by Paul Hamilton, Peter Gordon and Dan Kieran. Book Review. Up Against the Wall 4 (Dec 2006).

Sword of Hearts directed by David Schmidt. Film Review. Up Against the Wall 1 (Aug 2006).

Meet the Beatles by Steven D. Stark. Book review. Journal of Popular Culture 39.3 (2006): 504-505.

Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft by Michael D. Bailey. Book review. Journal for the Academic Study of Magic 3 (2006): 321-323.

Anglo-Saxon Propaganda in the Bayeux Tapestry by Meredith Clermont-Ferrand. Book review. English Language Notes 43.3 (2005): 84-89 .

Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo. Book review. New World Finn 5.3 (July-Sept 2004): 26.

Popular Music from Vittula by Mikael Niemi. Book review. New World Finn 5.2 (April-June 2004): 26.

"Japanese Magic: The Girl-Friendly Films of Hayao Miyazaki." With Wendy Goldberg. Film review. Femspec 5.1 (2005).

Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker. Book Review. The Beltane Papers 27 (2002): 54-55.

"'Celebrating Pale Hecate's Offerings: My Favorite Witchcraft Films." Film reviews. The Beltane Papers 27 (2002): 52-53.

"Magic as Performance Art: The Ritual Art of Alan Moore." The Seeker Journal 14.4 (2002): 8-9.

The Book of Zines: Readings from the Fringe by Chip Rowe. Book review. Other Voices 1.2 (1998).

Dark City. Film review. Millennium (March 1998).

"Alien Four : Foot Fetish." Film review. Millennium (December 1997).

"Two Movies Clive Barker Hopes You'll Never See." Film review. Weird Times 1.4 (1996): 6-8.

Notes

"From the X-JOCA Family Archives." The Interplanetary Journal of Comic Arts: A Festschrift in Honor of John Lent. Ed. Michael G. Rhode. Washington DC: JLME, 2007. 40-41.

"Haru: The Island of the Solitary, Introduced by Sophia Jansson." New World Finn 7.2 (Spring 2007): 26.

"A Taste of Ancient Finland." New World Finn 7.1 (Autumn 2006): 1.

"Reaching into the Past." Finnish Connection 19.4 (Fall 2006): 13.

"Trancing with Tara." The Beltane Papers 38 (Summer 2006); 35-36, 43-44.

"Feeding the Spirit in Exile." The Beltane Papers 37 (Spring 2006).

"Coming Together from Many Nations: The Conference on Women and the Divine." Beltane Papers 36 (Autumn 2005): 41-42 .

"Casting the Circle: Ritual and the Body of the Goddess." Circle 94 (Summer 2005): 19-20.

"Ancient Texts and Venerable Tales. " Celebrating the Pagan Soul. Ed. Laura Wildman. Citadel Press, 2005.

"Hunter S. Thompson: RIP." UHD Dateline March 4-24, 2005.

"The New Medievalism: Visual Rhetoric and Christianity in Modern Films. " The Beltane Papers 33 (2004): 48-49, 64.

"Where are all the Pagan Punks?" New Witch 4 (2003).

"The Sound of Magic: The Kantele." The Beltane Papers 31 (2003): 30-31, 62.

"Holy Maidenhead! Or How Our Medieval Foremothers Were Sold Virginity." The Beltane Papers 27 (2002): 39, 61.

"Taking the Goddess to Class." The Seeker Journal 14.3 (2002): 3-4.

"Awaiting on You All: George Harrison 1943-2001." The Seeker Journal 14.1 (2002): 9-11.

"Anglo-Saxon Yule." The Seeker Journal 13.12 (2001): 4-5.

"Walking Among the Elders." Circle 82 (2001): 6-7.

"An Early Witch Trial." The Seeker Journal 13.11 (2001): 7-8.

"A Most Unusual Totem Animal." Circle 81 (2001): 21.

"Music is Praise." The Seeker Journal 13.8 (2001): 3-4.

"Teaching Medea." The Beltane Papers 25 (2001): 10-11.

"Goddess, Waiting." The Seeker Journal 12.12 (2000): 5-6.

"Edward Gorey 1925-2000." Obituary. TheComicStore.com. April 2000.

Translations

"Against the Water Elf Disease." Translation. The Bayou Review (2003): 35.

"Anglo-Saxon Charm Against a Wen." Dual-text translation. The Seeker Journal 13.5 (2001): 12-13.

"Against a Swarm of Bees: An Anglo-Saxon Charm." Dual-text translation. The Seeker Journal 13.3 (2001): 11.

"Erce: Earth Goddess, An Anglo-Saxon Charm." Dual-text Translation. Avalon Rising 1.3 (1999): 14-15. Reprinted as "Erce: Earth Goddess." The Seeker Journal 13.2 (2001): 18-19. Reprinted in The Pagan's Muse. Jane Raeburn, ed. Citadel Press, 2003.

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