Is there a link between weird fiction and mysticism?
Tag: Jorge Luis Borges
Weird #16: “The White Wyrak” by Stefan Grabiński (1921)
What's a White Wyrak? Add it to your mythical creature Pokédex by reading Stefan Grabiński
Weird #11: “The Vegetable Man” by Luigi Ugolini (1917)
The story of a little green man.

The Critical Irrealism of Borges’s Aleph
Borges throws doubt on the very ability of language to represent reality.
MythCon 45 Day 3: Postmodernity at MythCon
Sunday morning at MythCon, and I took it easy, only getting to "Harry Potter as Dystopian Literature" for 10:00. Kris Swank framed Harry Potter not only in terms of the latest dystopian craze in YA fiction (Divergent, The Hunger Games), but also with the dystopian tradition of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. The Dolores Umbridge-corrupted …