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• Bookmark The Fantasy Author H.P. Lovecraft at 125: Genius, Cult Icon, Racist -…

  American history is filled with writers whose genius was underappreciated—or altogether ignored—in their lifetime. Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems weren’t discovered and published until after her death. F. Scott Fitzgerald “died…

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• Bookmark St. Cthulu in the Anthroposcene – The New Inquiry

  Since the 2011 publication of Eugene Thacker’s In the Dust of This Planet there has been an explosion in theoretical work on everything horrible and horrific.

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• Bookmark Weird realism: John Gray on the moral universe of H P Lovecraft

  The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas…

  March 30 2015, 8:57am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Turing Machines and (Gothic) Horror I am interested in any writings connecting (Universal) Turing Machines and horror. The idea of computers being able to imitate the behaviour of anything speaks to me of the monsters and doppelgängers from the Gothic tradition onwards. Know any writings on this? Alan…

  December 3 2014, 4:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Who Goes There?

  Didja Know? This short story first appeared in Astounding Stories, August 1938, and is the inspiration for the 1951 film The Thing from Another World and 1982's The Thing. The 1982…

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• Bookmark Weird Philosophy | berfrois

  by Ben Woodard /0/ – Introduction I want to propose, as a trajectory into the philosophically weird, an absurd theoretical claim and pursue it, or perhaps more accurately, construct it as…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark » Interview with Thomas Ligotti The Teeming Brain

  Published in The New York Review of Science Fiction Issue 218, Vol. 19, No. 2 (October 2006) Some books and authors come into your life at precisely the right moment.

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Cinephilia and Beyond: The Incredible Effects of The Thing

  The Incredible Effects of The Thing, Cinefantastique issue detailing the design and implementation of many of The Thing’s effects sequences. The visuals of both the desolate Antarctic and the ever-morphing alien…

  July 14 2014, 12:43am | Comments

• Facebook Cache Prince Reading Group

  A 'reading group' where we watch 80s body-horror films and listen to early Prince tracks. But critical, nonetheless.

  June 17 2014, 3:57am | Comments

• Tumblr candarian-demon: 50’s Horror Originals vs Remakes  ➥ The Fly...

  April 21 2014, 11:01am | Comments

• GIFbites Zombie Booth An undead GIFbite by Emilie Gervais Want to take...

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• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

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  How to Read Lacan - Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien

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• Bookmark How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying to be so respectable

  My new book Shock Value: How a few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, explores how horror went mainstream by revisiting the golden age that began…

  July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments

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• Bookmark Who Goes There by John W. Campbell

  Who Goes There? is a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. under the pen name Don A. Stuart, published August 1938 in Astounding Stories. In 1973, the story was…

  July 16 2010, 3:46am | Comments

• Bookmark If zombies actually existed

  If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out…

  August 22 2009, 7:03am | Comments

• Misc Goblin – Witch http://www.last.fm/music/Goblin

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• Bookmark The Fantasy Author H.P. Lovecraft at 125: Genius, Cult Icon, Racist -…

  American history is filled with writers whose genius was underappreciated—or altogether ignored—in their lifetime. Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems weren’t discovered and published until after her death. F. Scott Fitzgerald “died…

  August 29 2015, 3:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark St. Cthulu in the Anthroposcene – The New Inquiry

  Since the 2011 publication of Eugene Thacker’s In the Dust of This Planet there has been an explosion in theoretical work on everything horrible and horrific.

  April 13 2015, 1:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark Weird realism: John Gray on the moral universe of H P Lovecraft

  The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas…

  March 30 2015, 8:57am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Turing Machines and (Gothic) Horror I am interested in any writings connecting (Universal) Turing Machines and horror. The idea of computers being able to imitate the behaviour of anything speaks to me of the monsters and doppelgängers from the Gothic tradition onwards. Know any writings on this? Alan…

  December 3 2014, 4:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Who Goes There?

  Didja Know? This short story first appeared in Astounding Stories, August 1938, and is the inspiration for the 1951 film The Thing from Another World and 1982's The Thing. The 1982…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Weird Philosophy | berfrois

  by Ben Woodard /0/ – Introduction I want to propose, as a trajectory into the philosophically weird, an absurd theoretical claim and pursue it, or perhaps more accurately, construct it as…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark » Interview with Thomas Ligotti The Teeming Brain

  Published in The New York Review of Science Fiction Issue 218, Vol. 19, No. 2 (October 2006) Some books and authors come into your life at precisely the right moment.

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Cinephilia and Beyond: The Incredible Effects of The Thing

  The Incredible Effects of The Thing, Cinefantastique issue detailing the design and implementation of many of The Thing’s effects sequences. The visuals of both the desolate Antarctic and the ever-morphing alien…

  July 14 2014, 12:43am | Comments

• Facebook Cache Prince Reading Group

  A 'reading group' where we watch 80s body-horror films and listen to early Prince tracks. But critical, nonetheless.

  June 17 2014, 3:57am | Comments

• Tumblr candarian-demon: 50’s Horror Originals vs Remakes  ➥ The Fly...

  April 21 2014, 11:01am | Comments

• GIFbites Zombie Booth An undead GIFbite by Emilie Gervais Want to take...

  February 25 2013, 5:10am | Comments

• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 4 2012, 7:27am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How to Read Lacan - Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien

  September 5 2011, 12:41am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 19 2011, 2:16pm | Comments

• YouTube

  July 15 2011, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying to be so respectable

  My new book Shock Value: How a few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, explores how horror went mainstream by revisiting the golden age that began…

  July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 19 2011, 6:54am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 12 2010, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Who Goes There by John W. Campbell

  Who Goes There? is a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. under the pen name Don A. Stuart, published August 1938 in Astounding Stories. In 1973, the story was…

  July 16 2010, 3:46am | Comments

• Bookmark If zombies actually existed

  If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out…

  August 22 2009, 7:03am | Comments

• Misc Goblin – Witch http://www.last.fm/music/Goblin

  July 15 2009, 11:28pm | Comments

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