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"The Acid Test" (2017) by Livia Llewellyn
Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales (2017)edited by Ellen Datlow
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"How to Talk to Girls at Parties" (2006) by Neil Gaiman
Alien Contact (2011) Edited by Marty Halpern
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Gould and Bach
Reading: On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain (2006) by Edward Said
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"The Room Where Love Lives" (1993) by Grant Morrison
Hottest Blood: The Ultimate in Erotic Horror (1993) edited by Michael Garrett and Jeff Gelb
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"The life of mere sensation is uncovered as anarchic and self-destructive"
Oscar Wilde (1988) by Richard Ellmann
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Glenn Gould’s distinction as a late-twentieth-century phenomenon
Reading: On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain (2006) by Edward Said
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The old Gods were dying, but not fast enough
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Valences of cosmic fear: "Hinterlands" (1980) by William Gibson
Omni, October 1981
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Unnerving edgelands
"The weird: a dis/orientation" (2017) Roger Luckhurst
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Weirding a green, pleasant nation-state
“The eeriness of the English countryside” (2015) by Robert Macfarlane
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“But that looks like a dinosaur to me.”
Jurassic Park (1990) by Michael Crichton
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"Gh-gh-gh-gh-gh-ghosts": naming the experience they can barely articulate
Folk Horror: New Global Pathways (2023) Edited by Dawn Keetley and Ruth Heholt
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The more Henry S. Whitehead I read, the more Henry S. Whitehead I read
"The Fireplace" by Henry S. Whitehead
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Glenn Gould's eminence
Reading: On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain (2006) by Edward Said
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