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Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we cover Robert Levy’s “DST (Fall Back,” first published in the Mike Davis’s 2016 Autumn Cthulhu anthology. Spoilers ahead. “Starlight and stridulations. Together they open windows. But only inside the gifted hour.” Unnamed narrator drives to Milford in late October, summoned by former roman...

Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we cover Robert Levy’s “DST (Fall Back,” first published in the Mike Davis’s 2016 Autumn Cthulhu anthology. Spoilers ahead. “Starlight and stridulations. Together they open windows. But only inside the gifted hour.” Unnamed narrator drives to Milford in late October, summoned by former roman...