Word: weirding
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...Mainly a literary group"--that's what the anonymous horror-lovers insist they are. "Why, just yesterday we were reading one of the rarest books ever published on "witchcraft, an opus on black magic put out in 1613," declared one of the members, emitting a weird laugh as he thumbed a book of Charles Adams' cartoons...
...took five hours to fly from Moscow to Helsinki in a Soviet DC-3. But I found myself in an atmosphere so hauntingly reminiscent of Europe in 1939 that I had the weird feeling that what I had really climbed into at Moscow's airfield was a Wellsian time machine which whisked me back nine years. There is the same excitement, of alternate pessimism and hopefulness, the same underlying feeling of a great overall drifting into disaster...
...looks as if General Douglas MacArthur has been booby-trapped," Leech mourned in an editorial. "For it is unbelievable that he deliberately would have sought the endorsement which . . . Hearst suddenly dropped down on him. . . . He's too smart to ask for a political kiss of death. . . . Some weird things have happened already in the campaign . . . but nobody else has suffered so extreme an embarrassment as that of becoming 'the Hearst candidate...
...however, is to recreate with great skill the emotional atmospheres of totalitarian terror. The pastoral scene in which the brothers explore the meanings of nature & man is transformed into a fearful and terrifying "battleground full of ominous Gothic effects-miasmal fogs that confuse the Chief Ranger's victims, weird battles between dogs that suggest the means by which Hitler dominated Europe, thick smoke arising from the crematoria and torture chambers of the "flaying-hut," and the plaguelike spread of the Chief Ranger's "glow worm" agents. The total effect of these literary devices is to suggest...
...Totally baseless," Belt charged. "No college professor ever suggested such a thing." He also labelled false such assertions that Adams drove a neurotic alligator to Nevada, built booby traps for Halloween Prankaters, and made over $10,000 on similar weird jobs last year...