Most of the good writing so far is in absurdly-aggressively-priced academic works. The Sederholm/Woofter reader is (somewhat) less aggressive and I’m looking forward to it. Someday someone will write a good intro/overview for a trade press…
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I mean, also, there's a couple works out there that are impenetrable more by design than anything else.
sep 1, 2025, 9:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Always!
sep 2, 2025, 12:20 am • 1 0 • view
Springer does sales like uh once a year maybe where Weird Fiction paperback goes down to $25, I'll make sure to yell about it next time for everybody else lol
sep 1, 2025, 9:50 pm • 2 0 • view
following for the yelling (and other stuff too)
sep 2, 2025, 12:23 am • 2 0 • view
🫡
sep 2, 2025, 1:27 am • 2 0 • view
Thank you for your service!
sep 2, 2025, 12:19 am • 1 0 • view
Yep, the first three are all Springer/Palgrave and I got them all during sales
sep 2, 2025, 2:43 am • 2 0 • view
I can't even get the Cisco through interlibrary loan!
sep 2, 2025, 2:39 am • 1 0 • view
Bah!!!
sep 2, 2025, 12:02 pm • 1 0 • view
They’re are always so insightful & such thoughtful editors - I’m looking forward to reading this. Someday, from the library.
sep 2, 2025, 12:12 pm • 1 0 • view
They being Kris Woofter & Carl Sederholm.
sep 2, 2025, 12:14 pm • 1 0 • view
I think Fisher is helpful in basic conversations because at least it establishes a clear distinction between his definition of “weird” and “eerie.” It’s a little less useful for me when talking about weird fiction that removes certain things from the real world and replaces them with other systems.
sep 1, 2025, 10:14 pm • 1 0 • view
I was frustrated that Fisher set up the distinction between w/e and then didn’t do anything substantive with it
sep 2, 2025, 12:20 am • 1 0 • view
Oh, right. I forget the book is more than just the one helpful essay. 😂
sep 2, 2025, 2:16 am • 1 0 • view
Unfortunately!!
sep 2, 2025, 2:34 am • 1 0 • view
I come at it from a panelist’s POV (I have 50 minutes - split 4 or 5 ways - to talk about the “weird”), so any terms we can agree on up front to try and focus in on *something* rather than *everything* is a help. But yeah.
sep 2, 2025, 2:58 am • 1 0 • view
Ha and for me it’s historian brain going “ok, you’ve done a good job of setting forth your theoretical approach, now to dig into the actual application of it - wait a minute…”
sep 2, 2025, 12:02 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m a big fan of Jonathan Newell’s Century of Weird Fiction. It’s £25 for a paperback which isn’t cheap but not outrageous. www.uwp.co.uk/book/a-centu...
sep 2, 2025, 12:06 pm • 2 0 • view
This and Emily Alder’s book are on my shortlist to get asap!
sep 2, 2025, 12:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you very much! I've read the Mark Fisher one and it was a miss for me too unfortunately 🥲
sep 1, 2025, 9:52 pm • 1 0 • view