In the spreading of the weird fiction virus, "which book was first sick?" (Miéville, "Afterweird," 1116). Alfred Kubin's novel Die andere Seite (The Other Side) can be thought of as 'Patient Zero,' or at least the one Ann and Jeff VanderMeer thought acceptable to identify for the purposes of their anthology The Weird: A Compendium of Strange …

Continue reading Weird #1 The Other Side (excerpt) by Alfred Kubin (1908)