An Ann and Jeff VanderMeer anthology collects stories of the “New” form of this genre, which China Miéville (“mee-AY-vul”) equated with the image of the tentacle. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this adjective that describes supernatural fiction evoking “unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces.” A pulp magazine named for this adjective published stories like “The Dunwich Horror” in the 1930s.
ANSWER: weird [accept weird fiction; accept The New Weird; accept Weird Tales]
[10e] This author defined the term “weird fiction” in the essay “The Supernatural Horror in Literature.” Weird Tales published many uncanny stories from this author’s Cthulhu (“kuh-THOO-loo”) mythos.
ANSWER: H. P. Lovecraft [or Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
[10h] In a seminal short story of weird fiction, these mysterious objects seem to change position at night and kill a peasant while tormenting two canoers on the Danube.
ANSWER: willow trees [accept “The Willows”; prompt on trees or plants] (“The Willows” is by Algernon Blackwood.)
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