The Weird : A Companion (Paperback, New ed)

Acknowledgments - Carl H. Sederholm and Kristopher Woofter: Introduction: The Weird and Others - Part I Weird Theory and History - Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock: Seven Weird Axioms - Thomas Ligotti: “In the Night, in the Dark”: A Note on the Appreciation of Weird Fiction - Eugene Thacker: Weird, Eerie, and Monstrous: On Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie - Emily Alder: “Waked, and Unquiet”: William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land - Todd S. Garth: Realist Technique, Empirical Discourse, and Monstrous Possibility: Horacio Quiroga - Timothy J. Jarvis and Helen Marshall: “Jewel-bright, hallucinatory, carefully described”: M. John Harrison’s Radical Vision of the New Weird - Brian Johnson: From Qweird to Queered Weird and Back: Notes on Reading Lovecraft in the Closet - Ross Hagen: Not Not Black Metal: Black Metal Theory and the Weird - Roger Luckhurst: The Greek Weird Wave - Melissa Edmundson: Women and the Weird - Part II Weird Tropes - Nina K. Martin: Liminal Places: Cinematic Encounters with the Urban Weird - Greg Polakoff: Philip K. Dick’s Weird Shade of Pink: VALIS - Dru Jeffries: David Lynch’s Lost Highway: Free Will and Predestination - Antonio Alcala Gonzalez: R’lyeh and Palmer Atoll: The Nautical Weird of Lovecraft and D. T. Neal - Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare: At the Gates of Hell: The Baroque Weird in Lucio Fulci’s Demonia - Mike Thorn: Weirding Body Horror in Darkest Hours - Michael Wood Conan the Uncanny: Weird Elements in Robert E. Howard’s Conan Stories - David Simmons: “It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came”: Depicting the Artist in Caitlin Kiernan’s The Red Tree and The Drowning Girl - Brian Hauser: Tilting the Floor beneath Our Feet: Weird Theory in/as Practice - Part III Weird Crisis - Alison Sperling: Weird Queer Ecologies - William Taylor: Deviant Ruins: Xenophilic Masochism, Alien Grammar, and Decaying Futurity in David Roden’s Snuff Memories - Karen Herland: Weird Fallout: HBO’s Chernobyl - Jonathan Newell: Weird Waste: Hyperabjection and Survival Horror - Ralph Beliveau: The Weird Folk Horror of Science: Specters of Nigel Kneale - Selma A. Purac: “Things in the mist!”: Stephen King’s Cosmic Horror and the Disruption of Consumerism - Part IV Weird Resistance - Kali Simmons: What White Men Want with Indian Magic: Indigeneity, Deep Time, Weird Fiction - Sohni Chakrabarti: The “Weird” as a Metaphor of Chicana Feminist Resistance: Ana Castillo and Gloria Anzaldua’s Re-mythicization of La Llorona, or the Wailing Woman - Will Dodson: Weird Whiteness in Octavia E. Butler’s Fiction - Neil C. Hartlen: Uncovering Racism in Red Hook: Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom - Melanie Ashe: The Weird and the Gothic as Postcolonial Critique in Australian Experimental Film - Mikaela Bobiy: Hysterical Alchemies: The Weird Worlds of Leonora Carrington - Part V Appendix - Camille McCutcheon: Weird Studies: A Selective, Representative Bibliography - Notes on Contributors - Index