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| + | "The true [[Weird fiction |weird tale]] has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain [[atmosphere]] of breathless and unexplainable [[dread]] of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain--a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space." --[[Supernatural Horror in Literature]]" (1927) by H. P. Lovecraft | ||
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| # Having [[supernatural]] or [[preternatural]] [[power]]. | # Having [[supernatural]] or [[preternatural]] [[power]]. | ||
| # Having an unusually [[strange]] character or behaviour. | # Having an unusually [[strange]] character or behaviour. | ||
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"The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain--a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space." --Supernatural Horror in Literature" (1927) by H. P. Lovecraft |
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- Having supernatural or preternatural power.
- Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
- Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
Weird may refer to:
- "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959), American musician and parodist
- Weird fiction, speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century
- Weird Tales, magazine
- The Weird, a 2012 anthology of weird fiction
Etymology
From Old English wyrd ("that which happens, fate, chance, fortune, destiny, Fate, the Fates, Providence, event, phenomenon, transaction, fact, deed").
See also
- New Weird America, a subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s
- Wyrd, an Anglo-Saxon concept of fate
- W.E.I.R.D., acronym, describes populations that are Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic
See also (2)
- "odd, uncanny", see grotesque, confusion, freak, surprise.
- Weirdo (magazine), a magazine sized comics anthology created by Robert Crumb
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