Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4 Quotes
Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4
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“This kind of fantasy, in which “something is not quite right”, lends itself very well to Gothic sensibility, with its convoluted use of language and its tormented heroes. And then there is an element of irrationality built into the rational and, coming from a Spanish background, I interpret this as surrealism, for me this is a major element I recognize in weird writing, and one that is present in my own understanding of the weird.”
― Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4
― Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4
“a kind of story interested in using the language of dreams and fragments, vague impressions, snatches of scientific discourse, in order to interrogate the nature of reality.”
― Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4
― Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4
“Weird fiction is a strange beast, an eclectic genre (or subgenre). It originated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century through the works of authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, and M. R. James, and has since developed over the course of the last hundred years to encompass new writers such as China Miéville, M. John Harrison and others. Weird fiction is notable for its generic uncertainty; it exists at the boundary between science fiction and horror—perhaps—or between literary fiction and horror—perhaps—or between Lovecraft and whatever happens to be floating close to hand at any given moment—perhaps!”
― Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4
― Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4
“I like to think of weird fiction as an unceasing distortion and buckling of ambient space and time; where plot, theme, atmosphere and voice coalesce. Hence, the lens from which you view the world is askew and occluded. A feeling. A mood. A sense of dislocation.”
― Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4
― Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4
