JFA sometimes publishes special issues devoted to a single topic, author, or theme. Each special issue presents an organized microcosm of criticism relating to its subject. Some previous special issues of general interest:

• "Diana Wynne Jones." Ed. Charlie Butler, Hallie O’Donovan, and Maureen Kincaid Speller. Vol. 21, No. 2. (2010).
• "HJEAS (Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies)." Ed. Donald E. Morse. Vol. 11, No. 4. (2001).
• "A Century of Draculas." Ed. James Craig Holte. Vol. 10, No. 2. (1999).
• "On Psi Powers." Ed. H. L. Drake. Vol. 9, No. 4. (1998).
• "The Tolkien Issue." Ed. W. A. Senior. Vol. 9, No. 3. (1998).
• "The Goddess in Fantastic Literature." Ed. C. W. Sullivan, III, and Kathryn Fladenmuller. Vol. 9, No. 1. (1998).
• "Fantasy and the Bible." Ed. Tina Pippin and George Aichele. Vol. 8, No. 2. (1997).
• "Dream and Narrative Space." Ed. Yuan Yuan. Vol. 7, No. 4 (1996).
• "The Golem." Ed. Maureen T. Krause. Vol. 7, No.’s 2/3 (1996).
• "The Doppelgänger in Contemporary Literature, Film, and Art." Ed. Michael J. Larsen and Gordon E. Slethaug. Vol. 6, No.’s 2/3 (1993).
• "Richard Adams’s Watership Down." Ed. Charles A. Meyer. Vol. 6, No. 1 (1993).
• "The Holocaust." Ed. Gary K. Wolfe. Vol. 5, No. 2 (1993).
• "Female Heroes." Ed. Gwendolyn Morgan. Vol. 4, No. 4 (1991).
• "Medieval Fantasy." Ed. William Senior. Vol. 3, No. 3 (1994).
• "Special Art Issue." Ed. Dorothy Joiner. Vol. 3, No. 1 (1990).
• "Doris Lessing." Ed. Nicholas Ruddick. Vol. 2, No. 3 (1980).
• "Science Fiction Film." Ed. Brooks Landon. Vol. 2, No. 2 (1989).
• "Postmodernism and the Fantastic." Ed. Lance Olsen. Vol. 1, No. 4 (1988).
• "Peter Beagle and Harlan Ellison." Ed. Gary K. Wolfe. Vol. 1, No. 3 (1988).

A few of these issues are still available for purchase. Please see our Back Issues page for ordering information.

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