The Weird
a companion
- Paperback
418 pages
- Release Date
22 April 2025
Summary
Unsettling Worlds: Exploring the Depths of the Weird
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 theoretic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781803741383 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1803741384 |
| Series: | Genre Fiction and Film Companions |
| Author: | Carl H. Sederholm, Kristopher Woofter, Simon Bacon |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang International Academic Publishers |
| Imprint: | Peter Lang International Academic Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 418 |
| Release Date: | 22 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 626g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Carl H. Sederholm
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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