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The Weird

A Companion

by Carl H. Sederholm (Volume editor) Kristopher Woofter (Volume editor)
©2025 Edited Collection XVI, 418 Pages

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.
Product Safety
Peter Lang Group AG

Biographical notes

Carl H. Sederholm (Volume editor) Kristopher Woofter (Volume editor)

Carl H. Sederholm is Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University. He is the editor of The Journal of American Culture, the co-author of Poe, the "House of Usher", and the American Gothic, and the co-editor of several volumes, including Adapting Poe, The Age of Lovecraft, Lovecraft in the 21st Century, and Forgotten Disney. He is also the author of multiple essays on authors such as Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, and Shirley Jackson. Kristopher Woofter teaches in the English Department at Dawson College, Montréal. He is the editor of the journal Monstrum and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated volume Shirley Jackson: A Companion. He is co-editor of American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper, Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition, and Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema. Other publications include essays on F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and the documentaries The Hellstrom Chronicle and Into Eternity.

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