Weird
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"The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present." --Supernatural Horror in Literature" (1927) by H. P. Lovecraft |
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- Having supernatural or preternatural power.
- Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
- Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
Weird may refer to:
- "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959), American musician and parodist
- Weird fiction, speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century
- Weird Tales, magazine
- The Weird, a 2012 anthology of weird fiction
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Etymology
From Old English wyrd ("that which happens, fate, chance, fortune, destiny, Fate, the Fates, Providence, event, phenomenon, transaction, fact, deed").
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See also
- New Weird America, a subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s
- Wyrd, an Anglo-Saxon concept of fate
- W.E.I.R.D., acronym, describes populations that are Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic
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See also (2)
- "odd, uncanny", see grotesque, confusion, freak, surprise.
- Weirdo (magazine), a magazine sized comics anthology created by Robert Crumb
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