The three witches in ‘Macbeth’ – also known as the ‘weird,’ or ‘wyrd,’ sisters – are prophetesses who often do the opposite of what’s expected of them.
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Despite feeling some schadenfreude at watching politicians squirm over being derided as such, a scholar of speculative fiction wants to keep America weird.
Weird scenes from Jim Crow-era America.
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By focusing on African Americans’ experiences of racism in the 1950s, the new series aims to address HP Lovecraft’s racist views.
Did mass graves in the influenza pandemic help give rise to the living dead?
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The 1918-1919 flu claimed millions of lives worldwide. Could it also have given birth to the viral zombie?