[Speaking Mute]

Quote Originally Posted by Robert Adam Gilmour

Quote Originally Posted by Speaking Mute Nor do I follow Joshi in thinking Cosmicism separates Weird from mainstream horror since a very large number of prominent authors popularly classified as Weird reject the view outright. Could you give us examples? I'm not quite certain what you're saying they're rejecting.

Joshi has often projected his anti-theism and scientific materialism onto the Weird Fiction genre as a whole - I forget the specific contexts, but he's claimed that authors like Robert Aickman either fall outside or fall short of the "Weird" aesthetic simply because their fiction incorporated the supernatural. So far as rejecting Cosmicism (a lifeless, indifferent universe), there's very few authors who actually embrace it - canonical Weird Fiction authors like James and Machen were practicing Christians, whereas others like Blackwood held pantheistic and spiritualist beliefs.