Weird fiction

“Whoever controls the spice, controls the universe”- Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Dune. If you are a person who likes action or sci-fiction, Dune is the movie for you. Dune is a movie adaptation from the book written Frank Herbert. On a September Friday night my dad, my little brother Josh and I watched Dune. We watched Dune on the couch on the family room on the Tv, and we watched it because my dad told me it was a worthy sci-fi movie. That is how I saw Dune. Dune is a live action movie…

Bryson Miguel’s “Until Something Happens” is a postmodernist, deconstructionist short story that depicts the entropic nature of language and implies that, despite efforts to apply order and meaning to our words, we are only as effectively understood as someone else effectively understands. Miguel’s story also suggests that the true significance of our stories and life experiences are often ambiguous. There is no single and objective meaning to discover, but rather the subjective act of…

Gothic Literature is a genre which has many other smaller genres branching out from it. For example, there is traditional gothic, weird fiction, southern gothic, contemporary gothic, etc. Each one of these partial genres has different characteristics which vary from story to story. However, some stories which fall into a specific genre, also have many characteristics from other genres. For example, a contemporary gothic literature work may be in written in a sense that seems like traditional…

on the inside. Whether it’s a woman finding comfort from a blowup doll, a family driving into the lake committing mass suicide or a boy who imagines he’s a detective who investigates a man he believes is his future self. His work is ambitious and weird yet it feels real. Chaon was born in 1964 in Sidney, Nebraska. He began writing in his early life around the time of junior high. Although he always got turned down from magazines, Chaon never stopped pursuing his dream. As he got older, he went…

foyers etc. The protagonist of these tales in some of the other manner are in close contact with the supernatural like the monsters apparitions and curses, demonic powers, sinister designs, witches and necromancy etc. The atmosphere of the horror fiction is stupefying, full of gloom, spooky spectacles and paranormal activities. In ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, Poe gives a vivid description of the sinister day of the first few lines of the story itself “during the hole of a dull and soundless…

Lovecraft. His written style often delved deeply into the metaphysical and conceptual creation of creatures and their subjective effect on humans and their mind. His works were often short stories, that fell into his self termed genre of weird horror or weird fiction. (ref mountain of madness) The playwright is one of the acting factory’s directors Mitchell Rist. The four plays (The Unnameable, The Quest for Iranon, Pickman’s Model and the Music of Eric Zahnn) were adapted from shorter works by…

They all describe that brow literature, PULP FICTION. The pulps, magazines and paperback novels, were North America's favorite form of escape for nearly sixty years. From the 1890s to the 1950s, pulp fiction delivered lavish cover art, fantastic illustrations and action packed stories for the public. Although entertaining, the majority of the population that bought these publications thought very little of them; they used and discarded pulp fiction like a dirty condom. It was not quality art.…

one. His boss Simon who is a combination of a biomechanical and magical detective keeps him in a perpetual state of amnesia. Nonetheless, despite the magical and supernatural angles to his cases, most of the narratives have a 1950s pulp detective fiction feel. The volume has two tales – one of a cursed grimoire of the undead and the other of a water creature that is taking the children of the residents of Lower Manhattan. The golem angle makes this an entertaining noir narrative with a fantasy…

Other Reasons to Live was also featured on Gulf Stream and was the winner of the 2004 Mystery Fiction contest. She is a two time Georgia Author of the Year Award nominee and is a member of the Sisters in Crime Atlanta Chapter, Low Country Sisters in Crime in Savannah and several national mystery chapters that aim at professional development, recognition and advancement of women writers in crime fiction. When she is not writing she can be found reading…

passionate about comics, and surely they won’t collect each issue of their favorite comic and preserve them as a treasure. The superheroes and villains’ stories may seem cheesy compare to today’s graphic novels, which are likely to depict creative fiction or memoir. While, I have two graphic novels masterpieces for you that are so different yet in a way alienate with each other, “The Watchmen” and the “Persepolis”. As you may have heard or watched the movie “The Watchmen”, its original comic is…