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China Miéville and Monsters: “Unsatisfy me, frustrate me, I beg you.”

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China Miéville (1972  –  ) is an influential English writer known for revitalizing weird fiction. He has won the World Fantasy Award and multiple Arthur C. Clarke awards, among others. Miéville’s early novels  —  including Perdido Street Station (2000) and The Scar (2002)  —  fused the weird with body transformation, Marxist politics, secondary world settings, and a bold style. Later novels like […]

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Ghosts, Fear, and Parallel Worlds: The Supernatural Fiction of Jean Ray: An Introduction to the Great Belgian Weird Writer

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WFR Editors’ Note: A version of this essay was first given as a talk by António Monteiro at a meeting in Rochester, England, October 30/31, 1999, and subsequently published as the introduction to The Horrifying Presence and Other Tales, published by Ex Occidente Press. We are pleased to present a version modified from both the speech and the published […]

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“The Society Tiger”

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Translated by Edward Gauvin Jean Ferry (1906  –  1974) was primarily a screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Clouzot, Buñuel, Louis Malle, and Georges Franju. A satrap of the College of ‘Pataphysics, he was known in his time as the greatest specialist in the works of Proust’s neighbor Raymond Roussel. His only book of fantastical tales, The Engineer, […]