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academic bearded devil skip to the content bearded devil monsters horror gaming toggle the mobile menu toggle the search field search category academic a century of weird fiction 1832 1937 disgust metaphysics and the aesthetics of cosmic horror by bearded devil on april 6 2020 in academic this is not a gaming related post but may interest some of this blog s readers since there s a certain degree of overlap between my gaming interests and my academic ones the university of wales press has just published my first academic monograph a century of weird fiction 1832 1937 disgust metaphysics and the aesthetics of cosmic horror this book grew out of my dissertation on weird fiction completed at the university of british columbia the book is a study of weird fiction by key authors during the period indicated beginning with poe and ending with lovecraft in essence it argues that in contrast with many of the clasically gothic works that the weird grows out of weird fiction is focused not on human interiority psychology history taboos the buried secrets the gothic spectrally manifests but on the non human on the nature of reality itself furthermore it suggests that the aesthetic key to this investigation into the primal mysterious nature of things lies in the power of disgust disgust arises when what we ve demarcated as not us encroaches upon what we ve defined as us when the self is threatened with contamination from the outside weird fiction i argue in the book is obsessed with this kind of confrontation a breach of borders queasily suggesting that many of our self conceptions are delusions especially the idea that we are trascendental souls or hermetically sealed selves that can be separated from the unclean physical world around us instead these texts intimate we are enmeshed in a seething oozing often eerily agentive morass of roiling materiality a chaotic messy deeply weird universe in the works of authors like lovecraft hodgson blackwood and others stable boundaries between us and not us the self the the world are exposed as anthropocentric conceits there s a lot about monsters slime sentient tree things possession putrescence quasi molluscoid hill people infectious fungi and similar glooping horror while written primarily for a scholarly audience i m of the belief that works of literary criticism don t have to be rendered in dry antiseptic prose or as a stream of dense abstractions only intelligible to experts in continental philosophy indeed i was playfully accused in my thesis defense of having adopted something of the style of weird fiction itself lush ornate and a touch lurid a charge to which i proudly plead guilty a century of weird fiction 1832 1937 disgust metaphysics and the aesthetics of cosmic horror is available through u of wales press u of chicago press for north american distribution there may currently be some delays there and can be pre ordered on amazon and indigo patreon genial jack volume 2 genial jack volume 1 twitter edweirdian instagram cityofhex the earwight bearded devil patreon launch the apocalypse archive 43 48 the apocalypse archive 37 42 the apocalypse archive 31 36 the apocalypse archive 25 30 the apocalypse archive 19 24 the apocalypse archive 13 18 the apocalypse archive 7 12 the apocalypse archive 1 6 the apocalypse archive building gossamer part 7 the verdant quarter magic items hexopoly hexian cosmologies hexchess hex cabinet of curiosities the sacred cauldron part 2 fair is foul foul is fair jack is back building gossamer part 6 the blooming quarter encounter tables from the hex gazetteer the sacred cauldron part 1 the barrow of king finvarra building gossamer part 5 the withered quarter building gossamer part 4 the wilting quarter hex sessions xxxvi actual play shadows lengthen building gossamer part 3 wormwood building gossamer part 2 shroomsbury building gossamer part 1 overall concept elfhame session 2 actual play the barrow of king finvarra a century of weird fiction 1832 1937 disgust metaphysics and the aesthetics of cosmic horror elfame session 1 actual play quest for the sacred cauldron adventurers of elfhame elfhame map of the quill coast genial jack is now available from exalted funeral the barnacle barrow of blunderbuss cairn hex appendix n preview of genial jack volume 2 and a lost pages store update 1d100 characters crooks in hex jack is here more maps two sample streets and factions for the hex gazetteer hex session xxxv actual play knothole manor genial jack volume 1 preview hex character sheets hex session xxxiv actual play clockwork cacodemons hex session xxxiii actual play mansions of the dead pt ii hex session xxxii actual play mansions of the dead pt i hex s rivals hex session xxxi actual play gobble slake how i run a citycrawl campaign hex session xxx actual play in the dreams of the god whale hex session xxix actual play the cuttlethieves zymotic ward rookery hex session xxviii actual play genial jack hex session xxvii actual play 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