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Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we cover Chapters 9-10 of T. Kingfisher’s
The Hollow Places, first published in 2020. Spoilers ahead but we strongly recommend reading along!
“…for all I know, sometimes I do see ghosts, and they’re just blurry like everybody else.”
Kara and Simon have ventured deeper into the Bunker of Ominous Graffiti. A hallway leads them into a long room divided into a makeshift kitchen, bunkroom and latrine, done up in the highest military style. Of five cots, two are neatly made up, two rumpled. Lockers surprisingly un-rusted stand at the foot of each cot. On a bolt over the head of an unmade bed hangs a rosary. As Simon quips, no matter where you go, the Jesuits got there first.
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we cover Robert Levy’s “DST (Fall Back,” first published in the Mike Davis’s 2016
Autumn Cthulhu anthology. Spoilers ahead.
“Starlight and stridulations. Together they open windows. But only inside the gifted hour.”
Unnamed narrator drives to Milford in late October, summoned by former romantic rival Martin. Ten years earlier, Martin and Narrator’s ex Jasper moved to small-town Pennsylvania; narrator hasn’t seen either since. He barely recognizes the haggard-faced Martin maybe Jasper has finally broken
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we cover Robert Levy’s “DST (Fall Back,” first published in the Mike Davis’s 2016
Autumn Cthulhu anthology. Spoilers ahead.
“Starlight and stridulations. Together they open windows. But only inside the gifted hour.”
Unnamed narrator drives to Milford in late October, summoned by former romantic rival Martin. Ten years earlier, Martin and Narrator’s ex Jasper moved to small-town Pennsylvania; narrator hasn’t seen either since. He barely recognizes the haggard-faced Martin maybe Jasper has finally broken
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we cover Chapters 7-8 of T. Kingfisher’s
The Hollow Places, first published in 2020. Spoilers ahead but we strongly recommend reading along!
“We’re in the woods between the worlds and we’ve lost track of which one is ours…”
Feeling the mist-shrouded sun of another world on her skin, Kara realizes nothing can be taken for granted here. The quiet is oppressive, the rounded grassy islands too evenly spaced to be natural–they make her think of the barrows where ancient people buried their dead. Now she notices larger and less artificial-looking islands covered in short trees. She recognizes them from their silvery leaves: osier willows.