![]() ![]() Which brings me to the horror writer Thomas Ligotti. Ligotti is a horror writer of some reputation. ![]() I dipped into Brian Evenson (intriguing and singular but one note) and Heidi Julavitz (a very fine writer I must return to). So I was excited to dig into some new weirdoes on the literary fringe. I also thought True Detective was excellent. The point: I like the weird, the dark and the bizarre. I include in the above list the comic book writers Alan Moore and Grant Morrison (and don’t ask me to weigh in on that particular debate I love them both), Neil Gaiman, to a lesser extent Peter Milligan and Ed Brubaker. Obsessives, lunatics, visionaries, perverts, creeps both high and low-I welcome weird writers of all types. Huysman, Angela Carter, Victor LaVelle, James Ellroy, as well as the literary pornographers Marquis DeSade, Anais Nin, George Bataille. Dick, Barry Hannah, Flannery O’Connor, Michel Houellbecq, Jonathan Carroll ( Voice of Our Shadow is excellent), Roberto Bolano, J.K. Lovecraft-who is a touch overrated, despite writing some excellent stories -Robert Howard, Robert Chambers, Algernon Blackwood, E.T.A Hoffman, Philip K. My canon for weird fiction is lengthy, a sort of catch-all, including H.P. This includes horror, science fiction and fantasy, but only in so far as the narrative is damaged somehow, askew, bent. ![]() I’ve long been a fan of what’s labeled weird fiction for a long time. ![]()
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