![]() ![]() It wasn’t the sky which he ripped apart, which wouldn’t be so different to an arriving alien fleet, it was everything - air, earth, matter, the entire scene. Or if an image, there’s a Doctor Strange panel I remember as a child, where the dread Dormammu was literally tearing his way into our reality. If I were to reduce the Weird to a phrase it would the one used in the invocation of a genie in ’The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad’ (1958) - “from the land beyond beyond”. For convenience’s sake, let’s assume they’re both subsections (or, in Fisher’s terminology, ‘modes’) of the Uncanny. ![]() ![]() But it’s okay because I am, I confess upfront, using Fisher’s book as a jumping-off point rather than offering a ‘proper’ review.įisher’s method is to explore the distinctions between the Weird and the Eerie through a series of examples. Some seven years after I last looked into a Mark Fisher book, and two years after he actually wrote ’The Weird and the Eerie’, I am yet again confirming my status as the internet's latecomer. ![]()
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