Tag: Weird Fiction
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Strange associates: Weird affect, weird fiction and the weird short story
this paper investigates weird fiction’s relationship with the short story, and argues that the short story is perhaps the most ‘natural’ form for the weird. The article spotlights some of the critical gaps that exist in weird scholarship, while at the same time offering insight into why weird short fiction remains popular with authors, even…
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Weird Fiction for Beginners
This guide is for those who are ready to dip their toes into Weird fiction, but might not be ready for some of the intense themes, graphic depictions, and overall mind-boggling that many Weird stories can contain.
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Weird Fiction, What is it?
When someone says they like Weird Fiction it may immediately bring to mind stories containing unfathomably ancient miasmic, tentacled deities or a disc-shaped world balancing atop elephants that stand upon a giant turtle swimming through space. Alternatively, one may be drawn to images of vegan vampires in space or a cat that hates Mondays and…
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The New Weird: Subverting the Traditional
The New Weird is a hybrid genre of science fiction, horror and fantasy estranged from traditional conventions by creating indefinable, unexplainable, and inexplicable events and creatures. Investigated within this paper will be the New Weird monster, New Weird’s subversion of genre, and the effectiveness of the unknowable.
Emily Morrison 