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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 Chapters 19-20 of T. Kingfisher’s The Hollow Places, first published in 2020. Spoilers ahead! the light makes things alive Kara’s first thought after recognizing the corpse-otter carving as the link between Wonder Museum and Willow-world is: How dare it come here—the Museum is home. The Museum has always been her place of refuge, “the safe place where Uncle Earl kept a little corner...

Novel of the Year The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga) Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) The Invention of Sound, Chuck Palahniuk (Grand Central) The Sun Down Motel, Simone St. James (Berkley) Novella of the Year Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom) Crossroads, Laurel Hightower (Off Limits) True Crime, Samantha Kolesnik (Grindhouse) The Worm and His Kings, Hailey Piper (Off Limits) Short Story Collection of the Year Thin Places, Kay Chronister (Undertow) Velocities, Kathe Koja (Meerkat) Wyrd and Other Derelictions, Adam Nevill (Ritual) The Immeasurable Corpse of ...

Penryn Town Council will be holding a Virtual Councillors Fayre in order to update the community on various aspects of their work. The virtual fayre will take place online Thursday March 18 at 1pm and will last around an hour. The fayre will be introduced by town mayor, Councillor Chaz Wenmoth, who will speak about civic duties, followed by town clerk Helen Perry, who will inform those attending about Governance. Councillor John Langan will speak on planning, Councillor Jo Garret on climate change and Councillor Mary May will inform those attending on events held in the town. The Virt...

133 homes are to be built at Kergilliack on the outskirts of Cornwall. Picture from file: Getty Images A development of 133 homes near Falmouth has been granted planning permission despite concerns about plans to narrow a road to create a new footpath. Barratt David Wilson Homes had applied for full permission to build the new homes on land off Hillhead Road in Budock. The application went before Cornwall Council’s west sub-area planning committee yesterday for a third time after it was deferred twice by councillors who were concerned about proposals to narrow Kergilliack Road to allo...

I was on not one but two award juries in 2020. I told myself it was reasonable because there was a lot of overlap in the potential nom­inee pools, so it wouldn’t be that much extra reading. I didn’t count on 2020 being a year of unusual strain and psychic deterioration, which increased the difficulty of reading, thinking, making critical judgments, and re­ally doing anything that required executive function. Still, I got through my mountains of books, and even found some comfort (or, at least, distraction) there. I’ll highlight ten of my favorites. The best book of the year for me w...