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Weird fiction

Curriculars: 28 Years Later
In which my nerding out truly begins
Jul 2 • 
Christopher Lockett
Curriculars: The Relative Weird, Part Four—Genre as Metaphor
Lovecraft Country
Apr 26 • 
Christopher Lockett
Curriculars: The Relative Weird, Part Three—Genre and (as) Myth
Narrative as inevitability
Apr 24 • 
Christopher Lockett
Curriculars: The Relative Weird, Part Two—Writing Back to Lovecraft
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Apr 10 • 
Christopher Lockett
Curriculars: The Relative Weird, Part One—Horror as Privilege
Also: on teaching American Literature in the present moment
Apr 9 • 
Christopher Lockett
Curriculars: China Miéville and the Banality of Weird
The eldritch ain't got nothin' on social media.
Feb 3 • 
Christopher Lockett
The Trumpian Weird
Making America Eldritch Again
Jan 20 • 
Christopher Lockett
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