This second issue of STUDIES IN THE FANTASTIC features another wide range of contributions, from essays and reviews to poetry and fiction. Zachary Z. E. Bennett writes on the New Dark Wave in horror fiction from the 1960s to the present day; Leigh Blackmore explores the Kefahuchi Tract Novels of M. John Harrison; Philip Challinor examines Robert Aickman's "The Unsettled Dust"; S. T. Joshi investigates Ambrose Bierce's "The Death of Halpin Frayser" and Benjamin Szumskyj looks at the influence of Robert Bloch's PSYCHO on Thomas Harris's Hannibal novels. There is also new fiction and poetry by Daniel Pearlman, Michael Aronovitz, and Evan J. Peterson, as well as a review of "Bram Stoker's Notes for DRACULA" by John Edgar Browning.