![]() Sometimes, unearthly forces defy nature or reality. There are moments when even the natural, the wilderness, approaches us in alien and unknowable ways. Sometimes, it is nature that defies its own laws. What are the parts from weird fiction that normally make it into a sword and sorcery tale? When I think of weird fiction elements in S&S, I think of the uncanny, the indescribable, the inevitable, the unnamable I think of a sense of madness and deliriousness I think of a sense of corrupted time, of incalculable time, of civilizations and beings more ancient than recorded time, more ancient than humankind I think of the alien, the bizarre, the inhuman, and the abnormal I think of things and situations that defy rationality, defy reason, defy reality, defy nature I think of the unexpected and the monstrous I think of that which common humankind can never stop, can never understand, can never defeat I think of strangeness, of the eldritch, and of creeping weirdness. ![]() ![]() When thinking about weird fiction elements in sword and sorcery pieces, I wonder what kind of weird essence has usually been attached to it. ![]()
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