Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we continue N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became with Chapter 6. The novel was first published in March 2020. Spoilers ahead! CW for depictions of racist and misogynist art including some that graphically portrays sexual assault.
[“What part of ‘we don’t do bigotry’ do you not understand?”]
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we cover Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “When I was a Witch,” first published in the May 1910 issue of The Forerunner. You can find it most recently anthologized in Theodora Goss’ Medusa’s Daughters anthology. Spoilers ahead!
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we continue N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became with Chapter 5. The novel was first published in March 2020. Spoilers ahead!
A hand falls on my shoulder.
I turn to the wind.
On the paths I see you
walking.When I catch up
person wears another face.
In dreams I touch your mouth.
I first read Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time in the late 1980s, a little over a decade out from its 1976 publication. It was a revelation to my teenaged self: a window into the worst of my own time, and into a future where I might actually make sense. It was nothing like the metal-and-dilithium utopia of Star Trek, my previous nomination for the time I really belonged in. I reread it many times, desperate for glimpses of a better world and hints about how to get there. Rereading this year, I find Piercy’s utopia still hopeful, still shocking—and more grown-up than I knew.
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we cover H.G. Wells’ “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid,” first published in the Pall Mall Budget in August 1894. Spoilers ahead!
[“…they got into her dreams, growing after her with incredible rapidity.”]
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we continue N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became with the 2nd Interruption and Chapter 4. The novel was first published in March 2020. Spoilers ahead!
[“Have to watch that. When I’m frustrated, I speak too much truth.”]
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we cover Molly Tanzer’s “Grave-Worms,” first published in the Joseph Pulver’s 2015 Cassilda’s Song anthology. Spoilers ahead!
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we continue N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became with the Chapters 2-3. The novel was first published in March 2020. Spoilers ahead!
[“I’ll miss this universe when everything is said and done…”]
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we cover Kelly Link’s “The Specialist’s Hat,” first published in 1998 in Event Horizon. Spoilers ahead!
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we start on N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became with the Prologue, first Interruption, and Chapter 1. The prologue was first published on Tor.com in September 2016, while the novel was published in March 2020. Spoilers ahead!
[“…amid its triumph, the newborn city of New York shudders.”]
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we cover Gordon B. White’s “Gordon B. White is Creating Haunting Weird Horror,” first published in the July 2021 issue of Nightmare Magazine. Spoilers ahead, but this one is both short and very much worth the read!
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we finish J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla, first published as a serial in The Dark Blue from 1871 to 1872, with Chapters 15-16. Spoilers ahead!
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we cover Clive Barker’s “In the Hills, the Cities,” first published in Barker’s Books of Blood, Volume 1 in 1984. You can also find it in column favorite anthology The Weird. Spoilers ahead, but go read!
[“The shadows of the bodies darkened tracts of land the size of small towns…”]
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we continue with J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla, first published as a serial in The Dark Blue from 1871 to 1872, with Chapters 13-14. Spoilers ahead!
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we continue our celebration of National Poetry Month with Crystal Sidell’s “The Truth About Doppelgangers,” first published in March 2022 in Strange Horizons. Spoilers ahead, but go read! Content Warning: possible self-harm.
