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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’re reading Garry Kilworth’s “Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands,” first published in 1987 in Christopher Evans and Robert Holdstock’s Other Edens anthology. Spoilers ahead; CW for amputation and mention of suicide. “It would perch on the back of the bed-chair and flutter its fingerfeathers wit...

Covid-19 sees German investor mark down value of Point Campus DWS transfers Dublin student housing to subsidiary at 6% discount to price paid in 2019 Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 06:00   The owners of Ireland’s largest off-campus student accommodation complex have marked its value down by 6 per cent to reflect the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the sector. Having paid a net purchase price of €142.26 million to acquire the Point Campus in December 2019 from BlackRock Real Estate and the O’Flyn...

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 continue with Chapter 6 of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, first published in 1959. Spoilers ahead. “Her eyes hurt with tears against the screaming blackness of the path and the shuddering whiteness of the trees, and she thought, with a clear intelligent picture of the words in her ...

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’re reading Oscar Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost,” first published in the 23 February and 2 March 1887 issues of The Court and Society Review. Spoilers ahead—but read it for yourself first. “My Lord,” answered the Minister, “I will take the furniture and the ghost at a valuation. I hav...