Weird Fiction discussion

Our next Weird non-fiction group read is The Weird Tale: Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, Ambrose Bierce, H.P. Lovecraft. According to Amazon,s introduction to the book:

This landmark study, written by one of the premier critics of weird fiction, proposes a radical new theory of the weird tale. S. T. Joshi sees horror fiction as the "consequence of a worldview," whereby authors consciously restructure the nature of the universe in accordance with their philosophical presuppositions. Joshi analyzes in detail the work of six pioneering writers of weird fiction from the period 1880-1940.

This award winning book book got Joshi on everyone's weird fiction radar. It has an extensive Wikipedia page that goes into it if you want to know more before reading it. Let's start this the first day of the northern Hemisphere's winter season, which is December 21 in the U.S. and Europe. I'm really looking forward to digging into Joshi's analysis of these six seminal weird fiction authors. We in this group at one time or another have read at least one extensive work, and often more, written by all of these authors, with the sole exception of M.R. James.

The price as an eBook is reasonable enough -- $3.99.