"With a roar and a howl the thing was upon us, out of total darkness."
Tag: H.P. Lovecraft
Weird #22: “Genius Loci'” by Clark Ashton Smith (1933)
In which a painter becomes seduced by the abject, vampiric evil of a landscape.
Weird #20: “The ‘Mainz Psalter'” by Jean Ray (1930)
A weird sea voyage into bizarre dimensions.
Weird #19: “The Book” by Margaret Irwin (1930)
A terrifying story about a tiny gap in a bookshelf.
Weird #18: “The Dunwich Horror” by H. P. Lovecraft (1929)
The Dunwich horror is a metonym for the genre of weird fiction as a whole
Weird #14: “Unseen — Unfeared” by Francis Stevens (1919)
What terrible things lie outside of our everyday perception?
Weird #12: “The People of the Pit” by A. Merritt (1918)
Who can resist the Siren call of the Pit?
Weird #11: “The Vegetable Man” by Luigi Ugolini (1917)
The story of a little green man.
Announcing the October Archaeology of Weird Fiction Project
The Archaeology of Weird Fiction Project aims to dig up the history of weird fiction through a series of weekly posts on all 110 stories contained in Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's seminal anthology The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories.
World Fantasy Convention 2015, Part III: Challenging the Canon
Last week I wrote about my interview with Charles de Lint at the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs. Today, I wrap up my discussion of the conference with some comments on the fantasy canon and the awards ceremony, which have of late been the subject of some controversy. My MA thesis is on fantasy …
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