Of course, there are a few clangers in here, but given the sheer size of the book they are barely worth mentioning.This paper investigates and compares language and imagery used by contemporary ecocritics in order to argue that the Anthropocene discourse contains significant parallels to cosmic horror discourse and (new) weird literature. There are far too many individual stories to mention, but the majority of these tales certainly struck a chord with me and I'll certainly be look out for some of the authors at a later date. The book's real selling points, however, are its collection of lesser known works by well known authors, and more importantly, tales which have been completely forgotten ,or simply never reached enough audiences.
There are some classic tales in here such as 'The Willows' by Blackwood, 'The Dunwich Horror' by Lovecraft, the sublime 'Don't Look Now by Du Maurier and 'It's a Good Life' by Bixby which was adapted in the classic series of the Twilight Zone. This gigantic, titan of a book has tales dating back from the nineteenth century to the present day. It's also the probably the best anthology that I've come across years, nay, ever. This book is a wonderful assortment of horror, fantasy, quirky and downright bizarre tales all neatly wrapped up in a bow of weirdness. Chapter 106: The Brotherhood of Mutilation.Chapter 90: The Ocean and All Its Devices.Chapter 89: Last Rites and Resurrections.Chapter 87: The Diane Arbus Suicide Portfolio.
Chapter 81: His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood.Chapter 77: The Function of Dream Sleep.Chapter 75: Hogfoot Right and Bird‐hands.Chapter 74: Tainaron: Mail From Another City.
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