Re: Weird Lit. about Pacific Islands?
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Hespire (IP Logged)
Date: 28 August, 2020 09:00PM
Thanks for the answers. I forgot all about The Web of Easter Island, likely because I never read it. Would this be considered a good quality weird story? And I also forgot that "The Voice in the Night" took place in the Pacific! Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle" took place in the South Pacific, I think, before moving on to Antarctica, but maybe I mixed up some seas.
[b][/b]Dale Nelson Wrote:
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> Hespire, is it your intention to include, among
> the items in the bibliography of weird fiction +
> Pacific islands, the islands of Japan? If so,
> there must be a wealth of candidates for the list,
> such as the Japanese tales of Lafcadio Hearn
> (Kwaidan, etc.). But perhaps Japan isn't part of
> what you have in mind.
I wondered about that myself when posting this thread. Technically Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, etc. are all islands in the Pacific, so I'm open to those suggestions too, though I was most interested in Polynesia. But I have read several books by Lafcadio Hearn and marveled at his studies. His enthusiasm for my mother's homeland is greater than my own, but he sure made me more interested!
Which reminds me that Japan is utterly filled with weird traditions that would knock the socks off of most weird writers! But I'll reserve this for a separate thread, perhaps, devoted to weird folklore.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 28 Aug 20 | 09:24PM by Hespire.