Titlebook: Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle; Emily Alder Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 British Fiction

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Weirdfinders: Reality, Mastery, and the Occult in E. and H. Heron, Algernon Blackwood, and William Hn the weird phenomena experienced by his clients. E. and H. Heron’s Flaxman Low, Algernon Blackwood’s John Silence, and William Hope Hodgson’s Thomas Carnacki champion the credentials of borderland science. Their expertise manifests variously as esoteric knowledge, occult technologies, and psychic s

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Weirdfinders: Reality, Mastery, and the Occult in E. and H. Heron, Algernon Blackwood, and William Hn the weird phenomena experienced by his clients. E. and H. Heron’s Flaxman Low, Algernon Blackwood’s John Silence, and William Hope Hodgson’s Thomas Carnacki champion the credentials of borderland science. Their expertise manifests variously as esoteric knowledge, occult technologies, and psychic s

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Weird Energies: Physics, Futures, and the Secrets of the Universe in Hodgson and Blackwoodisible inner world of atoms paved the way for quantum theory. In Algernon Blackwood’s “A Psychical Invasion” and “The Willows,” irruptions of weird phenomena become legible as exchanges of energy, increasing in power at the expense of humans; elsewhere, Blackwood’s protagonists undergo experiences t

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Meat and Mould: The Weird Creatures of William Hope Hodgson and H. G. Wellsological sciences. In H. G. Wells’s . and William Hope Hodgson’s “The Derelict” and “The Voice in the Night,” monstrous creatures are presented as real theoretical, if extreme, possibilities. Moreau’s Beast People and Hodgson’s mould and fungus creatures belong to terrestrial environments; they are

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Book 2020sh writers who preceded and influenced H. P. Lovecraft, the most famous author of weird fiction. From laboratory experiments, thermodynamics, and Darwinian evolutionary theory to psychology, Theosophy, and the ‘new’ physics of atoms and forces, science illuminated supernatural realms with rational t

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Weird Energies: Physics, Futures, and the Secrets of the Universe in Hodgson and Blackwoodhat resemble quantum descriptions of reality. Hodgson’s . and . use vast lengths of geological time to imagine the long-term implications of evolution and thermodynamics for the future of humanity including the weakening boundaries of the known world.