Lovecraft’s descriptions do not allow the reader to synthesise the logorrheic schizophony of adjectives into a mental image
The weird, by contrast, is notable for the way in which it opens up an egress between this world and others
What is the weird? When we say something is weird, what kind of feeling are we pointing to? I want to argue that the weird is a particular kind of perturbation. It involves a sensation of wrongness: a weird entity or object is so strange that it makes us feel that it should not exist, or at least…
[...] the eerie is fundamentally tied up with questions of agency. What kind of agent is acting here? Is there an agent at all? These questions can be posed in a psychoanalytic register — if we are not who we think we are, what are we? — but they also apply to the forces governing capitalist societ…
