Tag: uncanny

• Emanations 5

  Carter Kaplan has announced that, “Emanations: 2 + 2 = 5 is now in the final stages of production,” saying: Here is a glimpse of the cover art by Ruud Antonius, taken from his painting The Fourth Plinth  (oil on panel, 100 x 80 cm). Mr. Antonius is a Dutch painter who lives in the…

  Bill Ectric

  August 13, 2015

  Andrew Darlington, anthology, art, Aziz Mustafa, Bill Ectric, books, C.E. Matthews, Carter Kaplan, D. Harlan Wilson, Elkie Riches, Emanations, experiemantel literature, Gareth Jackson, Genevieve Lavergne, Highbrow, Holly Baumgartner, Horace Jeffery Hodges, Jeffrey Falla, Jim Matthews, Marielle Risse, Marleen Barr, Michael Butterworth, Michael G. Chivers, Neha Sinha, Paramita Dutta, Philip Murray-Lawson, Robert Medley, Ruud Antonius, Surrealism, Sushma Joshi, Tantra Bensko, Tessa B. Dick, uncanny, Vitasta Raina

• uNcAnNy

  The word “uncanny” is often used interchangeably with words like “eerie” and “weird.”  After Boris Karloff  portrayed the Frankenstein monster in the classic 1931 movie, he was sometimes billed as “Karloff the Uncanny.” I recently decided to look up the actual definition of uncanny and discovered a treasure trove of cool information, including some psychology from…

  Bill Ectric

  January 14, 2011

  Boris Karloff, Der Sandmann, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernst Jentsch, frankenstein, Kafka, Neil Gaiman, Sigmund Freud, The Sandman, uncanny