I am back to discussing The Surreal and The Weird, with a particular look at Harry Kümel’s Malpertuis (1971). The Weird nature of Malpertuis comes from Jean Ray, author of the original 1943 novel.
#surrealism #theweird #malpertuis #harrykümel #luisbuñuel #jeanray
The evil eye and witches night in Rome (1904) by Maud Howes
"The evil eye and witches night in Rome" (1904) by Maud Howes
Author describes superstitions in vintage Rome.
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#TheWeird
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
"Ellice : A tale of phantom land"
[aka, Ghosts; Phantoms; Ellis; Призраки] (1863, 1873 transl)
by Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
gaslight-arts.com/Ellice.html
#VicLit #TheWeird
The Temple City Kazoo Orchestra - Sprach Kazoostra
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#KazooOrchestra
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#Happiness
Lotsa Weirdo Stuff
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Reappraising the movie that gave us the #bambiburster: "I am so cute! But also, I will eat your fucking face!"
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I wrote an essay about It Follows. It mentions hummus.
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Schalcken the Painter: like Caravaggio fell asleep in a crypt, dreaming of the BBC licence fee.
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Turns out the scariest thing on telly that Christmas wasn’t the Queen’s speech for once.
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Schalcken the Painter: when late-night telly felt like a séance.
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#BBC2 traumatised me as a child. I remain grateful.
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Candlelight, regret and one deeply cursed fiancé, happy holidays from 1979 #booksky #writinglife #writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #BookSky 💙📚 #indieauthors #indiepublishing #writingcommunity #schalckenthepainter #bbc #horror #theweird open.substack.com/pub/philipas...
Some thoughts on how we experience #theuncanny as a format rather than as content. The BBC's "lost" adaptation of #SchalckenThePainter #theweird #horror #ghosts #ghoststories #amwriting #writingcommunity #amwritingfantasy #speculativefiction
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THE WEIRD - BROOKLYN 2012 - CURB YOUR EGO - ADOLFEOLOW*. SHERYO. $1.28. Fantastical characters in purple including an owl, hand monster, jukebox cowboy, man with bird-feeder in hair, and a black and white drawing of woman-own with hands and magnets. street art - murals. Large mural details theme with fantastical characters.
scopOphilic_micromessaging_839 - scopOphilic1997 presents a new MicroMessaging series: small, subtle/often unintentional messages we send/receive verbally/non-verbally (2014)
#scopOphilic #micromessaging #streetart #graffiti #brooklyn #nyc #photography #Sheryo #CurbYourEgo #$1.28 #purple #TheWeird
Woah! Truth is broken and I dont know kung-fu. open.substack.com/pub/philipas... #theweird #mieville #thematrix #amwriting #amwritngfantasy #williamhopehodgson
Truth is broken. Send swine-things! Thoughts about The City & The City & The House on the Borderlands
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How the The City & The City & The House on the Borderlands represent the polar extremes of #theweird open.substack.com/pub/philipas... #writingcommunity #weirdfiction #gutenbergparenthesis #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #mieville #thecityandthecity #williamhopehodgson #thehouseontheborderlands
This week the Reggie Oliver Project reads ‘The Black Cathedral’ and we figure out why it’s important to touch grass.
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#TheWeird #WeirdFiction #Horror #EnglishWeird #ReggieOliver #MRJames #GhostStories #Tech #Magic #Rationalists
On how liminality fucks with the architecture of truth … open.substack.com/pub/philipasuggars/p/3-t... #booksky #writinglife #writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #writingcommunity #liminalspaces #liminalhorror #theweird #weirdfiction
Statue of The Great God Pan at Columbia University. Photo by Another Believer https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Another_Believer
This week the Reggie Oliver Project reads ‘Garden Gods’. We discuss class, conformity, amateurism and the danger of dabbling in the dark art of gardening
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#ghoststories #weirdfiction #TheWeird #ReggieOliver #Class #Paganism #Exploitation #horticulture
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On the how the current internet is a weird-ass shit hole filled with new types of ghosts #markfisher #hauntology #thebackrooms #liminalspaces #thedigitaleerie #derrrida #theweird
A painting of a tiger in a winter landscape
This week the Reggie Oliver Project reads ‘Tiger in Snow’ and consider Art, exploitation, and how #solidarity and #intersectionality may not always be as prevalent as we would wish.
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#ghoststories #weirdfiction #TheWeird #ReggieOliver #Class #Gender #Intersectionality
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 10/20
#booksky #books #bookchallenge
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Reviewing 'Experimental Film' by Gemma Files. Canadian film history, Yezidi cosmology, Wendish mythology and a good old fashioned haunting.
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Welcome to the Weird.
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X-ray of a Wolf, by Nychos.
#nychos #theweird #xrayofawolf #haightashbury #streetart #wallpaintings #urbanart #sanfranciscoart #weirdlords #haightstreet #epicpix #epicart #epiciphonepix #pierrecutler
Reviewing 'A Colder War', by Charles Stross. Sometimes there are worse things than nuclear megadeaths. We begin bombing in five minutes.
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#WeirdFiction #horror #ColdWar #atompunk #CharlesStross #reviews #bookreviews #TheWeird
The Antipodean Weird- I read Terry Dowling's work. Carnivals, Sydney, the Outback, Chaos and Old Night
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#weirdlit #TheWeird #TerryDowling #Australia #horror #fiction #bookreviews
I read Walter de la Mare's 'All Hallows'
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