The Weird
A Companion
©2025
Edited Collection
XVI,
418 Pages
Series:
Genre Fiction and Film Companions, Volume 14
Summary
Weird works unsettle, decentering humanity on a cosmic scale and, at other times, breaking down the human barriers erected around race, class, gender, and sexuality. Featuring a comprehensive editors’ introduction to the Weird as a mode engaging with forms of knowledge, transcendence, and resistance, this collection offers a broad-reaching discussion of Weird fiction, film, art, and thought. Its 31 essays explore theoretical and philosophical applications of the Weird, such as Black Metal Theory, and key Weird themes and tropes such as cosmic horror, radical embodiment and sensation, dark ecological speculation, and forms of alterity. Essays are highly varied in period focus and subject matter, ranging from early Weird works by William Hope Hodgson and Conan creator Robert E. Howard, to the surrealist paintings of Leonora Carrington, to more recent works by David Lynch, Octavia Butler, and Yorgos Lanthimos.
Details
- Pages
- XVI, 418
- Publication Year
- 2025
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781803741390
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781803741406
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781803741383
- DOI
- 10.3726/b20688
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2025 (April)
- Keywords
- alterity ambiguity anthropocene apocalypse cosmic horror ecology epistemology feminism fine arts folk horror gaming genre Gothic horror Indigeneity literature moving image New Weird philosophy theory traveling theory queer Weird
- Published
- Oxford, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, 2025. xvi, 418 pp., 12 fig. col.
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