Foreword: Weird Geographies, Fantastic Maps
Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Ecologies and Geographies of the Weird and the Fantastic
Julius Greve and Florian Zappe
2 Naturhorror and the Weird
Eugene Thacker
3 Uncanny New Worlds in Harriet Prescott Spofford's "D'Outre Mort" and "The Black Bess"
Michaela Keck
4 The Weird and the Wild: Media Ecologies of the Outré-Normative
Julius Greve
5 Queering the Weird: Unnatural Participations and the Mucosal in H. P. Lovecraft and Occulture
Patricia MacCormack
6 Geological Insurrections: Politics of Planetary Weirding from China Miéville to
N. K. Jemisin Moritz Ingwersen
7 "Indifference would be such a relief" Race and Weird Geography in Victor LaValle and Matt Ruff's Dialogues with H. P. Lovecraft
James Kneale
8 The Oceanic Weird, Wet Ontologies, and Hydro-Criticism in China Miéville's
The Scar
Jolene Mathieson
9 "Through the eyes of Area X" (Dis)locating Ecological Hope via New Weird Spatiality
Gry Ulstein
10 Inexistent Ink: Michael Cisco and Quentin Meillassoux on Writing Worlds
Ben Woodard
11 Notes on the Alluring Weirdness of (Materialist) Rumination and Regurgitation: Reading Ariana Reines and Jamie Stewart
Marius Henderson
12 Spaces of Communal Misery: The Weird Post-Capitalism of Beasts of the Southern Wild
Marlon Lieber
Contributors
About the Author: Julius Greve is Lecturer and Research Associate at the Institute for English and American Studies, University of Oldenburg, Germany, and the author of Shreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Concept of Nature (2018).
Florian Zappe is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany. He has published monographs on William S. Burroughs and Kathy Acker and a variety of essays on (post)modern literature, cinema, and theory.