In this podcast, The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020 presents the panel From Yellow Wallpaper to Spectral Hues: Color in Weird Fiction moderated by Brian Hauser with Daniel Braum, Craig Laurance Gidney, Gwendolyn Kiste, Hysop Mulero, and Liv Rainey-Smith. PLUS Scott Nicolay reads “The Marlyweck Cemetery” by Belgian Weird fantasist Jean Ray. This programming was recorded on Sunday August 16, 2020.
Show Notes
In this podcast, experience the second Sunday afternoon block of The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020. First Scott Nicolay reads “The Marlyweck Cemetery” by Belgian Weird fantasist Jean Ray (Circles of Dread, Wakefield Press) (0:07:21). Then listen to the panel From Yellow Wallpaper to Spectral Hues: Color in Weird Fiction (0:31:58) moderated by Brian Hauser with authors Daniel Braum, Craig Laurance Gidney, Gwendolyn Kiste, and Hysop Mulero, and Liv Rainey-Smith. Scroll down for Additional Links to the many artists, authors and works recommended in this episode. This programming took place and was recorded on Sunday August 16, 2020.
This program block is sponsored by Mythic Delirium Press and Grimscribe Press/Vastarien: A Literary Journal, 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: Argawarga Press, Broken Eye Books, Dim Shores, Dunhams Manor Press, Eraserhead Press, The Hazeland Books by Matthew Maxwell (Broken Eye Books), Innsmouth Free Press, Kino Lorber, Pseudopod, The Revelator, Shudder, Signal Horizon, Skeleton Hat Podcast, Trepidatio Publishing, Undertow Publications, Underworld Dreams by Daniel Braum (Lethe Press), Ben Thomas‘ The Willows and Tales from OmniPark, Word Horde, 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
The New Weird, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Tachyon Publications, 2008)
Edward Gauvin ( author/translator, Weird Fiction Review)
‘Some Notes on the Belgian School of the Strange’ by Edward Gauvin (Small Beer Press)
‘Weird France and Belgium: A Best Of’ by Edward Gauvin (Weird Fiction Review)
Letters, Dreams & Other Writings by Remedios Varo (Wakefield Press, 2018)
Color Out of Space (dir: Richard Stanley; 2020) trailer
‘The Masque of the Red Death’ by Edgar Allan Poe
‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
TOD 054 Tanith Lee: Her Own Dark Mythos
The Secret Books of Paradys by Tanith Lee
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
TOD 079 Lesley Wheeler: All the Smart Women are Practicing Magic
Synesthesia (Psychology Today)
‘The Wine Dark Sea’ by Robert Aickman
‘The History Behind the Southern Tradition of Haint Blue’ by Ross Heichelbech (Dusty Old Thing)
Becky Sharp (first 3 strip Technicolor film)
Suspiria (Dir: Luca Guadagnino, 2018) Trailer
Suspiria (Dir: Dario Argento, 1977) Trailer
Bright Darkness: The Lost Art of the Supernatural Horror Film by Jeremy Dyson
Pet Sematary (Dir: Mary Lambert; 1989) trailer
‘Femme Fatale: Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber‘ by Helen Simpson (The Guardian, 2006)
More Recommendations from Discord discussion group for this panel:
Review: This Spectral Hue has a Shimmering Life of Its Own by Jason Heller (NPR)
‘The Damned Thing’ by Ambrose Bierce
“Flash Frame” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
‘The Empire of Ice Cream ‘ by Jeffrey Ford
The Company of Wolves (Dir: Neil Jordan, 1984) Trailer
Midsommar (Dir: Ari Aster; 2019) Trailer
the accessibility color feud between Anish Kapoor and Stewart Semple
Semple’s Black 2.0 & newer 3.0
Anish Kapoor: Memory | The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation
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
