![]() James, Christopher Priest, Joan Lindsay, Nigel Kneale, Daphne Du Maurier, Alan Garner and Margaret Atwood, and films by Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan Glazer and Christoper Nolan. These two modes will be analysed with reference to the work of authors such as H.P. Perhaps a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of liminal concepts such as the 'weird' and the 'eerie'. The 'weird' and the 'eerie' both fundamentally concern the outside and the unknown, which are not intrinsically horrifying, even if they are always unsettling. Both have often been associated with Horror, yet this emphasis overlooks the aching fascination that such texts can exercise. The 'weird' and the 'eerie' are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. ![]() According to Fisher, the eerie is a failure of absence (e.g. ![]() The eerie includes writers MR James and Margaret Atwood, director Stanley Kubrick, and musician Brian Eno. Summary: "What exactly are the 'weird' and the 'eerie'? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The weird thing is not wrong, after all: it is our conceptions that must be inadequate. ![]()
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