So I found a clean version of Oobmab’s “The Flock of Ba-hui” in (GB) Chinese (「巴虺的牧群」2013). The source is a very interesting Fantasy dojinshi and translation discussion forum called “The Ring of Wonder” (which looks completely different in its mobile format btw). There are many other works of HPL-inspired horror available on their Cthulhu board and, interestingly,…
gameraboy1: This Creeping Evil by Geoffrey BennettArrow Books, 1963Cover art uncredited
The book which actually shipped in pickled form:
Why Cosmic Horror is at the root of post-modern nihilism. tl;dr The version of existence which acknowledges the horror of an unknowable cosmos has been called “weird realism” or “speculative realism”[7] and it undermines all anthropocentric belief systems (religious or humanist). There is a tendency, even nowadays, to think of the world in which we…
Lovecraft’s Otherworldly Xenophobia – Areo Other qualities further entangle Lovecraft’s horror fiction with his personal ethnocentrism. As well as fear, Lovecraft’s creatures vividly evoke disgust and the threat of disease—they are “oozing,” “gangrenous,” “gelatinous,” “putrid” and trickling with “foetid greenish-yellow ichor.” Lovecraft was acutely sensitive to his own health, complaining throughout his life of various…
Weird Fiction: A Primer Some of the recent attention trained on weird fiction can be attributed to Jeff VanderMeer. His acclaimed Southern Reach trilogy shows off weird fiction’s range, encompassing elements of science fiction, Lovecraftian terror, paranoid conspiracy thrillers, and body horror. He’s written about literature as it relates to the first season of True…
Books: Catalog of “weird books” publisher
An Interview with Kelly Link: “All Books Are Weird” Weirdfictionreview.com: Was weird fiction welcome in your household growing up? And what kinds of weird things did you read as a child? Kelly Link: My parents were both big readers. There are only two books I remember my mother taking away from me. One was Bored…
Weird Books: Syllabus and Schedule of Work I like this guy’s syllabus a lot.
Fiction Archives | Weird Fiction Review From the legendary website, Weird Fiction Review
Pseudopod 249: Kavar The Rat – PseudoPod “Kavar The Rat” by Thomas Owen Translated by Edward Gauvin But he’d been a skillful artisan, and remained so. At the beginning of his career, his real specialty had been locksmithing. Ah! Nothing to do with today’s dumb little locks, all identical, with grooved keys and four screws to…
Eugene Thacker – Weird, Eerie, and Monstrous: A Review of “The Weird and the Eerie” by Mark Fisher Fisher’s interest in Lovecraft stems from this shift in perspective from the human-centric to the nonhuman-oriented – not simply a psychology of “fear,” but the unnerving, impersonal calm of the weird and eerie. As scholars of the…
“Variations on Lovecraftian Themes” (2016) by Veronica Schanoes Lovecraftian weird women, I like…
Hypnogoria Random scribblings from Mr Jim Moon. Ramblings on the films, TV, and literature consumed while he really should have been working…