Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle.

In chapter 4, Alder introduces the figure of the "weirdfinder", a term that refers to fictional investigators such as Hodgson's Carnacki, Kate and Hesketh Prichard's Flaxman Low, and Blackwood's John Silence. Alder concludes with a chapter on how fin-de-siècle conceptions of energy emerge in Hodgson's I The Night Land i (1912) and I The House on the Borderland i (1908) as well as Blackwood's "The Willows" (1907). In her examination of the genre, Alder illustrates the ways in which fin-de-siècle weird fiction is distinct from the Gothic, a mode which has, for better or worse, dominated scholarly discourse on horror fiction. [Extracted from the article]