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Founded | 1999 |
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Founder | Derrick Hussey |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | New York City |
Publication types | Books, journals |
Fiction genres | fantasy, horror and science fiction |
Official website | hippocampuspress.com |
Hippocampus publishes HP Lovecraft and classic weird tales of horror. Posts about Hippocampus Press written by John. As you know, Bob, at some point this summer (honest!), my third collection, Sefira and Other Betrayals, will be published by the fine folks at Hippocampus Press. For the third time, the incredible Santiago Caruso has provided the cover image for me. I know, right?
Hippocampus Press is an Americanpublisher that specializes in, 'the works of H. P. Lovecraft and his literary circle.'[1] Founded in 1999, and based in New York City, Hippocampus is operated by founder Derrick Hussey.
As of 2017, it has issued over 200 publications, including editions of the complete fiction, [2] essays, [3] and poetry [4] of Lovecraft, and thirteen volumes in the ongoing series of Lovecraft's Collected Letters.
In 2014, Publishers Weekly said Hippocampus Press is, 'the world’s leading publisher of books related to horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.' [5]
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Hippocampus has also published previously unavailable weird fiction by Lord Dunsany (The Pleasures of a Futuroscope, The Ghost in the Corner and Other Stories), as well as the 'Lovecraft's Library' series, which collects works by authors who influenced Lovecraft but have since fallen out of fashion, such as Algernon Blackwood, M. P. Shiel, and Herbert Gorman.
Hippocampus has published a wide range of contemporary horror fiction (John Langan, Richard Gavin, Simon Strantzas, Joseph S. Pulver, W. H. Pugmire, etc.), non-fiction and critical work (Thomas Ligotti, S. T. Joshi, William F. Nolan, etc.) and poetry (Clark Ashton Smith, Robert H. Barlow, George Sterling, Samuel Loveman, Donald Wandrei, Donald Sidney-Fryer, K. A. Opperman, Michael Fantina, Ann K. Schwader, etc.).
Hippocampus Press also publishes the periodicals Dead Reckonings: A Review of Horror and the Weird in the Arts, The Lovecraft Annual, Lovecraftian Proceedings (papers presented at NecronomiCon Providence), and Spectral Realms (devoted to weird and fantastic verse).
Awards[edit]
In 2011, Hippocampus Press was awarded the Horror Writers Association's Specialty Press Award. [6]
References[edit]
- ^Hippocampus Press homepage
- ^Publishers Weekly Fiction Book Review, 'H. P. Lovecraft: Collected Fiction: A Variorum Edition'
- ^ISFB, 'Series: Collected Essays of H. P. Lovecraft'
- ^The H. P. Lovecraft Archive, 'The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft (second revised edition)'
- ^Lovecraft’s Ladies: New Books from Hippocampus PressArchived 2014-03-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^2011 Bram Stoker Award nominees and winnersArchived 2000-08-24 at the Wayback Machine
External links[edit]
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hippocampus_Press&oldid=935753605'
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Interestingly, a single high-dose treatment with the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antagonist memantine (MEM) has been shown to increase hippocampal neurogenesis dramatically by promoting cell proliferation. In the present study, to understand the impact of increased adult neurogenesis on memory performance, we examined the effects of a single treatment of MEM on hippocampus-dependent memory in mice. Interestingly, mice treated with MEM showed an improvement of hippocampus-dependent spatial and social recognition memories when they were trained and tested at 3-6 weeks, but not at 3 days or 4 months, after treatment with MEM. Importantly, we observed a significant positive correlation between the scores for spatial memory (probe trial in the Morris water maze task) and the number of young mature neurons (3 weeks old) in MEM-treated mice, but not saline-treated mice. We also observed that the young mature neurons generated by treatment with MEM were recruited into the trace of spatial memory similarly to those generated through endogenous neurogenesis.
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Taken together, our observations suggest that treatment with MEM temporally improves hippocampus-dependent memory formation and that the newborn neurons increased by treatment with MEM contribute to this improvement when they become 3 weeks old.© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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