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Making sense is not a cure
Or ... Eugène Ionesco, David Byrne, and Terry Gilliam walk into a bar
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March 2024

Viking farmers vs. an undead seal vs. my pagan shortcomings
Or “explanation is where the weird goes to die”
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February 2024

Death and taxes and ... why did it have to be snakes
Garnett Radcliffe's 'Pit of Screams' (1938) turns clerking into a death match
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January 2024

A screwdriver in seek of a stranger
My haunted house is nothing like D.K. Broster's
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December 2023

Glossary writers need to tune in to the Weird
On lacking the words to illuminate William Sloane's "To Walk the Night" (1937)
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June 2023

May 2023

'Do you want to look through a dead man's eyes?'
I mean, if it's no trouble, M.R. James ... I'm game.
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How Nature's horror opens a multiverse
Algernon Blackwood and the pursuit of re-enchantment
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April 2023

From man-gods to dumb tweets
J.G. Ballard's timeless take on the deification of Ronald Reagan
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March 2023

A horror of moviegoing manners
Graham Greene's 'A Little Place off the Edgware Road' (1939)
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Fairy as vampire, Doyle as chump, Houdini as ... Congress's oracle of truth?
Fiona Macleod's 'By the Yellow Moonrock' (1921) reflects anxieties about change
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February 2023

When a tree falls in Saki's forest
A game of 'get off my lawn' goes too far
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