What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? Two closely related but distinct modes, and each possesses its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, but this genre alone does not fully encapsulate the pull of the outside and the unknown.
In several essays, Mark Fisher argues that a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of transitory concepts such as the Weird and the Eerie.
Featuring discussion of the works of: H. P. Lovecraft, H. G. Wells, M.R. James, Christopher Priest, Joan Lindsay, Nigel Kneale, Daphne Du Maurier, Alan Garner and Margaret Atwood, and films by Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan Glazer and Christopher Nolan.
Sheila Liming is an author and professor of writing.
@BadVictorianist Mark Fisherās THE WEIRD AND THE EERIE (2016). So compact and so dynamite.
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from THE WEIRD AND THE EERIE by mark fisher... chills down my spine besties! brain is full of southern gothic trapped by a past determined to play itself out over and over again until there is no future anymore!! https://t.co/BMMr6B8N62
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