In this podcast, The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020 presents the panel Art of The Weird: How Do You Illustrate Something that Defies Description? moderated by Eric Schaller and featuring Chris Gavaler, Jeanne D’Angelo, Michael Bukowski, Lynne Hansen, and Matthew Jaffe. PLUS Readings by Laura Blackwell, Gregory Norman Bossert, Tonya Liburd, and Jeffrey Ford. This programming was recorded on Saturday August 15, 2020.
Show Notes
In this podcast, experience the third Saturday afternoon block of The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020 starting with readings by Laura Blackwell (0:05:54), Gregory Norman Bossert (0:15:25), and Tonya Liburd (0:25:47). Then listen to the panel Art of The Weird: How Do You Illustrate Something that Defies Description?(0:34:00) moderated by Eric Schaller and featuring Chris Gavaler, Jeanne D’Angelo, Michael Bukowski, Lynne Hansen, and Matthew Jaffe. The episode closes with a reading by Jeffrey Ford (1:31:43) Scroll down for Additional Links to the many artists, authors and works recommended in this episode. This programming took place and was recorded on Saturday August 15, 2020.
This program block is sponsored by Argawarga Press and Ben Thomas‘ The Willows and Tales from OmniPark (0:32:16), as well as Horla Level sponsors Nightscape Press, Perpetual Motion Machine, and Nightfire (Tor). The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020 was Presented by This Is Horror and Dekalb Entertainment Commission.
It takes a Weird Village to Make Something Weird happen, and we want to express so much Weird Love to The Outer Dark Symposium 2020 community. Thank you to our guests, ticket-holders, Indiegogo supporters, volunteers, scholarship recipients, patrons, and the rest of our sponsors: Broken Eye Books, Dim Shores, Dunhams Manor Press, Eraserhead Press, The Hazeland Books by Matthew Maxwell (Broken Eye Books), Innsmouth Free Press, Kino Lorber, Mythic Delirium Press, Pseudopod, The Revelator, Shudder, Signal Horizon, Skeleton Hat Podcast, Trepidatio Publishing, Undertow Publications, Underworld Dreams by Daniel Braum (Lethe Press) , The Willows, Word Horde, Grimscribe Press/Vastarien: A Literary Journal, and Xylographilia. Go to TheOuterDark.org and click on “Symposium” to check out the complete program schedule of all the exciting readings and panels coming this Fall on The Outer Dark podcast.
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Additional Links
Story Time (Daniel Marcus and Laura Blackwell)
‘The Eternal Goodnight’ by Laura Blackwell (Everyday Fiction)
‘The Uncanny Art of Eric Schaller’ (Weird Fiction Review)
Interview: Eric Schaller and Weird Art (Weird Fiction Review)
Stories from the Borderland by Scott Nicolay and illustrations by Michael Bukowski
Children of the Fang and other Genealogies by John Langan (cover by Matthew Jaffe)
Salvador Dali “The Broken Bridge and the Dream” (painting)
MC Escher “The Rind” (painting)
Dan Seagrave “Effigy of the Forgotten” (painting)
Pamela Colman Smith Tarot Commemorative Set
Pamela Colman Smith “The Blue Cat”
Connecticut Castle – Gillette Castle – (Pamela Colman Smith art) and ALSO
Johnny Craig, Cover, Crime SuspenStories [April 5, 1954]
At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft
“The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles” by Margaret St. Clair
Emily Carroll (artist/graphic novels)
‘The Beckoning Fair One’ by Oliver Onions
Things That Never Happened by Scott Edelman (Cover: Lynne Hansen; Cemetery Dance)
Greener Pastures (Cover by Michael Wehunt; Apex)
Grass by Anya Martin (Cover by Jeanne D’Angelo; Dim Shores)
Arthur Machen: Collected Fiction (covers by Michael Jaffe)
Benjamin’s Parasite by Jeff Strand (Cover: Lynne Hansen,
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by M. R. James
Seventh Day Ministries (Michael Bukowski, chapbooks)
Michael Bukowski on Instagram (@illustro_obscurum)
Jeanne D’Angelo on Instagram (@everlastingfaint)
Matthew R. Jaffe on Instagram (@matthewrjaffe)
More Recommendations from Discord discussion group for this panel:
Like an Everflowing Stream ( debut album by Swedish death metal band Dismember)
Transcend the Rubicon (album by the band Benediction)
Leonora Carrington (artist/author)
Crimson Springs by John Quick (cover by Lynne Hansen)
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
Fernand Khnopff’s The Caress (Le Sphinx – 1896) (painting)
Show Credits
Hosts/Producers: Scott Nicolay and Anya Martin
Co-Host, News from The Weird: Justin Steele
Co-Host, Reviews from The Weird: Gordon B. White
Symposium Assistant Director: Melanie Crew
Symposium Programming Coordinator: Jess Lewis
Symposium Logistics: Melissa Eisner
Logo Design: Nick “The Hat” Gucker
Music: Michael Griffin
