The Weird and the Eerie

A wonderful set of essays, anyone who enjoys weird fiction and mindf*ck sci-fi movies and wants to think deeper thoughts about them should read this book. His thoughts on the collapse/confusion of ontologies was especially interesting to me. Bringing Freud and Lacan, among many other thinkers, to the discussion, Fisher demonstrates again and again how the weird and the eerie found in fiction is a mirror to weirdness and eeriness present in the human condition. Here in the postmodern age, I believe we have all experienced the “Zenonian condition” of the inability to feel a true progression in any process, and that strange lack of realness to our reality.