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Is this visitor to Antarctica going crazy or having a good time? Tim Bieber/Photodisc via Getty Images

June 20, 2025

At Antarctica’s midwinter, a look back at the frozen continent’s long history of dark behavior

Daniella McCahey, Texas Tech University

Antarctica is a harsh continent, which in both history and fiction can trigger disturbing behavior and even madness.

The three witches in ‘Macbeth’ – also known as the ‘weird,’ or ‘wyrd,’ sisters – are prophetesses who often do the opposite of what’s expected of them. Royal Shakespeare Company Collection

August 15, 2024

In praise of the weird

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan University

Despite feeling some schadenfreude at watching politicians squirm over being derided as such, a scholar of speculative fiction wants to keep America weird.

Weird scenes from Jim Crow-era America. HBO

August 14, 2020

Lovecraft Country: HBO series brings new life to America’s weirdest horror writer

Guy Stephen Webster, University of Cambridge

By focusing on African Americans’ experiences of racism in the 1950s, the new series aims to address HP Lovecraft’s racist views.

Did mass graves in the influenza pandemic help give rise to the living dead? Tithi Luadthong/Shutterstock.com

October 29, 2019

Zombie flu: How the 1919 influenza pandemic fueled the rise of the living dead

Elizabeth Outka, University of Richmond

The 1918-1919 flu claimed millions of lives worldwide. Could it also have given birth to the viral zombie?

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