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Queering the Weird: Unnatural Participations and the Mucosal in H. P. Lovecraft and Occulture

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This chapter contests that the continuum of weirdness is found in queering (as many feminist and occult practices have long performed) both canonical weird authors and the jubilant, mucosal, and cacodemonic unions of the weird in grimoires and other esoteric histories and popular culture texts.

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    Patricia MacCormack

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  1. Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Niedersachsen, Germany

    Julius Greve

  2. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Germany

    Florian Zappe

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MacCormack, P. (2019). Queering the Weird: Unnatural Participations and the Mucosal in H. P. Lovecraft and Occulture. In: Greve, J., Zappe, F. (eds) Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic. Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28116-8_5

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