Making Sense of “The Weird and the Eerie” – Los Angeles Review of Books

You have probably heard of “the weird” by now, but you may not quite
know what it is, or why so many genre critics, cultural theorists, and
philosophers are keen to engage with it. It might once have been
quarantined as a subgenre associated with sullen Goths and all those
arrested-adolescent readers of H. P. Lovecraft, but it has long
slithered free of those confines, and now leaves a trail not just
straight across the internet, but on the page and in mainstream TV shows
and movie screens.