1. Definiendo la Ficción 'Weird': Más Allá de la Realidad.
La ficción 'weird' se caracteriza por desdibujar las líneas de la realidad, creando atmósferas inquietantes y evocando una profunda incomodidad. A diferencia del horror tradicional, su objetivo no es solo asustar, sino sumergir al lector en un mundo ontológicamente incierto, donde lo extraño y lo inexplicable son los protagonistas, dejando a menudo más preguntas que respuestas.
- What a great opportunity! weird fiction often blurs the lines of reality.
- Weird fiction is something i like a lot because the horror is evocative of a deep uncomfortable emotion we experience in reality but the things stand in for themselves.
- Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. H.p. Lovecraft.
- A fantastic piece on weird fiction as fiction that "unsettle[s] and emphasize[s] the anxiety of living in an ontologically uncertain world," that "lives in questions, not answers," and on how this framing helps us understand what makes weird horror weird.
- Probably my favorite part of writing weird fiction is having no idea what the fuck is going on.
2. La Delgada Línea entre Horror y Ficción 'Weird'.
Existe un debate constante sobre las diferencias y similitudes entre la ficción 'weird' y el horror. Mientras que a menudo se agrupan, muchos argumentan que son géneros distintos. El horror busca principalmente inducir miedo, mientras que la ficción 'weird' se enfoca en lo extraño y lo inexplicable. Algunos proponen el término "dark fiction" como un paraguas para englobar subgéneros como el gótico, la fantasía oscura y el 'weird'.
- Since the dawn of time, humankind has yearned to know what the difference is between weird fiction and horror.
- Everyone keep this question top of my mind until my essay on the differences between horror and weird fiction comes out in nightmare next month!
- It's not horror it's actually called weird fiction and it deals with important issues like the illusion of sanity and summoning a tanuki from the depths to knock you up .
- Also wanted to add, i feel things like gothic fiction, dark fantasy, weird fiction, etc. Are often grouped in with horror, which is perhaps unfair when assessing these works. Maybe saying “dark fiction” as a catch-all would be better?
- An idea i've become interested in is that horror is really just one dominating branch of what i'd more broadly call macabre fiction. I only consider something horror if i think it's supposed to be scary, or creepy, or very dread-inducing, more than anything else.
3. La Sombra de H.P. Lovecraft: Influencia y Crítica.
H.P. Lovecraft es una figura central y polarizante en la ficción 'weird' y el horror cósmico. Aunque se le considera un pilar del género, su obra es criticada por su racismo inherente y por ser vista como el único modelo a seguir. En la actualidad, muchos autores buscan expandir el género más allá de su influencia, creando narrativas antirracistas e innovadoras que se apropian y subvierten los tropos lovecraftianos.
- I hate how "cosmic horror experts" still consider lovecraft's fiction as the only way this type of writing and narrative style can work.
- There is a ton—a *ton*—of antiracist, inventive, daring contemporary fiction influenced by lovecraft. It's pretty amazing and inspiring, imo.
- 55. There's been a lot of cosmic horror and weird fiction in the past 15 years that's done a good job of wrestling those genres away from the undying grasp of lovecraft.
- Honestly there is literally not a single work of fiction by lovecraft that doesn't make abundantly clear that his horror is about him and his bizarre, deeply racist classist fears.
- I feel like victor lavalle’s ballad of black tom cemented that “lovecraftian” means specifically “racist weird fiction.”.
4. El Propósito del Horror: Catarsis y Reflejo de la Realidad.
La ficción de horror funciona como un espacio seguro para explorar y procesar emociones abrumadoras. Para muchos lectores, es una forma de externalizar sentimientos negativos, confrontar miedos en un entorno controlado y encontrar consuelo en narrativas que reflejan la crudeza del mundo real. Actúa como un ejercicio emocional que permite experimentar el terror y luego distanciarse, ofreciendo una forma de catarsis.
- I am a fan of weird fiction and supernatural horror in general. And it is about creating an intense uncomfortable emotion. I started reading it because i found it was a way to externalize bad feelings i had, making them leak out of me onto a printed page.
- This is why we need horror fiction. Just one of the reasons, but that doesn't make it any less true.
- Horror fiction is so fucking comforting when it deeply reflects how fucked up it all really is and it dives into your mind to where it relates to psychology.
- Fiction has the wonderful property of, well, being fiction. It gives you the chance to immerse yourself in the horror, the evil, the brutality, the complete unmaking/remaking of a person - and then to step out of it, when either the story's done or you just need to surface for a breath.
- Whereas, i do think horror fiction is often about people - women, but not exclusively - trying to process living in a violent world. It's a safe way to experience otherwise overwhelmingly emotions.