Gahan Wilson’s “The Sea Was Wet As Wet Could Be” hits quite differently than the other weird tales in this collection—his twisted, singsong references to Lewis Carroll form the background context to a story of the indifference of a barren universe.
Tag: horror
Weird #42: “The Howling Man” by Charles Beaumont (1959)
A chilling tale in which monks gaslight the protagonist about the existence of a suffering man
World Fantasy Convention, Montreal 2021
Last October, I had the great privilege to attend the World Fantasy Convention in my home city of Montreal at the Hôtel Bonaventure. It was a relief to be able to meet writers from the United States and across Canada after nearly two years of pandemic shut-down. If it had been held in another city, I probably would not have risked travel or asked for the time off work to attend.
Weird #34: “The Summer People” by Shirley Jackson (1950)
Things go wrong when an older couple decides to stay at the cottage past Labor Day.
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 #9: “The Spider” by Hans Heinz Ewers (1915)
A decadent tale of becoming overpowered by pleasure.
Weird #8: “The Dissection” by Georg Heym (1913)
A dissection has never been described in such rich horror.
Weird #7: “The Man in the Bottle” by Gustav Mayrink (1912)
The seventh entry in my Archaeology of Weird Fiction challenge is a short, decadent tale set at an extravagantly cruel masqued ball.
City of the Shrieking Tomb by Patrick A. Rogers
Reading City of the Shrieking Tomb made me feel as if I was seeing something that, as a tourist, I was not meant to see. In fact, it was as if I’d been expressly forbidden from seeing it.
Course Offered: Through the Leaf-Mould: Speculative Fiction Writing
Are you an aspiring fantasy and science fiction writer? If so, I have good news! I am teaching a speculative fiction writing workshop at the Thomas More Institute (3405 Atwater Avenue, Montreal) called "Through the Leaf-Mould: Speculative Fiction Writing." You will read selections from speculative fiction authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, …
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