![]() ![]() Lovecraft, but it has long slithered free of those confines, and now leaves a trail not just straight across the internet, but on the page and in mainstream TV shows and movie screens. ![]() ![]() It might once have been quarantined as a subgenre associated with sullen Goths and all those arrested-adolescent readers of H. You have probably heard of “the weird” by now, but you may not quite know what it is, or why so many genre critics, cultural theorists, and philosophers are keen to engage with it. Although this event inevitably turns The Weird and the Eerie into one of Fisher’s last statements, I want to read the book on its own considerable merits rather than falling into the trap of regarding it as some kind of tragic sign-post pointing forward. I have written some of my personal reflections on his death here, and there has been a significant outpouring of reaction to the news across the internet around the world. THIS BOOK WAS PUBLISHED in the United Kingdom on DecemMark Fisher died on the January 13, 2017. ![]()
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