James, Christopher Priest, Joan Lindsay, Nigel Kneale, Daphne Du Maurier, Alan Garner and Margaret Atwood, and films by Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan Glazer and Christoper Nolan. He wrote three books, Capitalist Realism, Ghosts of My Life and The Weird and the Eerie, and was a Visiting Fellow in the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths, University of London. His blog, k-punk, defined critical writing for a generation. n nPerhaps a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of liminal concepts such as the weird and the eerie.nThese two modes will be analysed with reference to the work of authors such as H. Mark Fisher (1968 2017) was a co-founder of Zero Books and Repeater Books. The Weird and the Eerie both fundamentally concern the outside and the unknown, which are not intrinsically horrifying, even if they are always unsettling. Both have often been associated with Horror, yet this emphasis overlooks the aching fascination that such texts can exercise. Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie is a fitting tribute to an author who had the rare capacity to write lucidly about dark and difficult things. The Weird and the Eerie are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes.
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