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 Daphne Du Maurier’s “The Birds,” first published in her 1952 collection
The Apple Tree (now reprinted as
The Birds and Other Stories). Spoilers ahead. CW for (bird) suicide attacks and harm to eyes.
“Black and white, jackdaw and gull, mingled in strange partnership, seeking some sort of liberation, never satisfied, never still.”
Pensioned by disability from WWII, Nat Hocken works part-time at a farm on the Cornwall coast. He’s married with two young children, but has a solitary disposition. Middays he carries his lunch to cliffs overlooking the sea. In spring he watches the birds fly inland, purposeful, intent. In autumn those that don’t migrate are restless and uneasy. “And like people who, apprehensive of death before their time, drive themselves to work or foll
Bigfoot, Therefore Evolution: T Kingfisher s The Hollow Places, Part 1
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Bigfoot, Therefore Evolution: T Kingfisher s The Hollow Places, Part 1
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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 Oliver Onions’ “The Beckoning Fair One,” first published in 1911 in his
Widdershins collection. Spoilers ahead.
“I don’t say I don’t love my work when it’s done; but I hate doing it. Sometimes it’s an intolerable burden that I simply long to be rid of.”
At forty-four, writer Paul Oleron has grown tired of roughing it in garrets. Crossing a rundown square, he notices precarious “To Let” boards in front of a red-brick building that, while it’s seen better days, at least had better days to begin with.
What Walks Alone: Final Thoughts on The Haunting of Hill House
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