We shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever: On weird fiction

A literary essay tracing the history and defining characteristics of Weird fiction, from its Gothic roots through Edgar Allan Poe and the Decadents to the Old Weird of H.P. Lovecraft and beyond. The piece reviews Penguin UK's 2024 Weird Fiction series, evaluating its editorial choices — praising the anthology while critiquing the idiosyncratic selection of Algernon Blackwood stories and the inclusion of Gertrude Barrows Bennett's weak Claimed!. It also engages with the philosophical underpinnings of the Weird (Mark Fisher, Kant's sublime), Lovecraft's racism and its entanglement with his style, and why the genre remains worth reading as a literature of crisis that oscillates between terror and wonder.

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