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The 22nd issue of the Journal of the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction is now available as an e-book.

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This is an 'Open Graves, Open Minds' special issue includes:

•  ‘Guest Editors’ Introduction’, Sam George and Bill Hughes,
•  ‘The origin of the sprites: The Folklore Society’s late-Victorian fairy science’, Francesca Bihet
•  ‘“Human passion – fairy power”: The rewriting and subversion of the Melusine legend in Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s “The Fairy of the Fountains”’, Greta Colombani
•  ‘A 19th-century influence of Gothic Faerie: The fairy tree, fairy lover, fairy art, and fairy revenge in Clay F. Johnson’s poem “A Ride Through Faerie”’, Tatiana Fajardo
•  ‘"The Ballad of Isabel Gunn" as The Daemon Lover/ Tam Lin: The economic migrant and enchantment as a recruitment strategy’, Catherine Greenwood
•  ‘Prisoners of the gods: The captivity narrative in fairy lore’, Jeremy Harte
•  ‘Fairyland’s Gothic offspring: The Maid of the Alder Tree as an arboreal femme fatale in George MacDonald’s "Phantastes" (1858)’, Michaela Haussman
•  ‘Fairies in Ann Radcliffe’s “The Glow-worm”: The communal aspect of art’, Györgyi Kovács
•  ‘Ill met by moonlight’: Gothic Fairy flash fiction 
•  A review of Fearsome Fairies: Haunting Tales of the Fae, B.C. Kennedy