Two cities construct a giant formed of the coordinated bodies of thousands of men, women, and children the likes of which has never been seen on this earth (outside Renaissance paintings of hell and the frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan).
Tag: H.P. Lovecraft
Weird #64: “Soft” by E. Paul Wilson (1984)
Why the ending of E. Paul Wilson';s “Soft” anticipates The Last of Us and the aftermath of COVID-19.
Weird #62: “The New Rays” by M. John Harrison (1982)
A weird emanation of energy straight out of Blue Man Group, the "blue bodies" are doubles that haunt the narrator of "The New Rays."
Weird #26: “Far Below'” by Robert Barbour Johnson (1939)
"With a roar and a howl the thing was upon us, out of total darkness."
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?
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