Once more, the stars are right. On Aug. 15, I’ll be flying from Washington to Providence, R.I., to attend NecronomiCon, which runs from that day until Aug. 18. Originally focused on H.P. Lovecraft and ...
At Other Skies Weird Fiction in West St. Paul, an open casket at the back of the store presents the rarest tomes to any customers who wander into the gothic bookstore. There’s nothing kept behind ...
Everybody has a favorite movie and TV genre. For some, nothing gets their blood pumping like a bloody horror film. For others, a cheesy sitcom is their favorite way to waste a few hours. While I enjoy ...
And I wondered why videogames don’t have their versions of Annihilation. Don’t get me wrong: We have weird science fiction ...
We all have different tastes when it comes to many things – from food to music, art, and books. The reasons behind it can be complicated, but we’re not here to discuss them. Instead, we’re here to ...
The term “weird fiction” is thrown around frequently — the New Yorker called him “the Weird Thoreau,” and Jorge Luis Borges is name-checked, too. Years ago, VanderMeer posted about Ellsworth’s work ...
Things are about to get weird in Mobile: The weekend of Nov. 3-5 brings the city’s first H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon. We’re using “weird” in a very specific sense here, though the ...
Tentacles reaching from the deep. Dark mold overtaking walls. A familiar forest suddenly becoming strange and threatening. These elements in literature, film and games define the "eco-weird," a term ...