Borges’s “Fauna of Mirrors” inspired a novella by this author set in a post-apocalyptic London invaded by a race of beings trapped in reflections. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of The Tain, who also created geographically identical cities Besźel and Ul Qoma. Slake-moths terrorize New Crobuzon in this author’s Perdido Street Station, which pioneered the New Weird movement.
ANSWER: China Miéville (“mee-AY-vill”)
[10m] Billy Harrow discovers that one of these creatures has been stolen from London’s Natural History Museum in a Miéville novel. The narrator of a Tennyson poem says of one of these creatures, “in roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.”
ANSWER: kraken [accept The Kraken or “The Kraken”; accept giant squid or giant octopus]
[10e] Miéville argues that weird fiction’s “obsession with numinosity” is exemplified by this author, who broke from traditional folkloric monsters to create the tentacle in “The Call of Cthulhu.”
ANSWER: H. P. Lovecraft [or Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
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