In Weird Mysticism: Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text, Brad Baumgartner identifies a new genre of modern mystical writing and examines the interconnections among horror fiction, philosophy, and apophatic mysticism. He reveals how an innovative form of negative thinking …
Weird Mysticism: Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text examines the nature of modern mystical writing and explains the interconnections among horror fiction, philosophy, and apophatic mysticism.
Weird Mysticism identifies and evaluates a new category of theoretical inquiry by showing the influence of speculative writing on three intersecting critical categories: horror fiction, apophatic mysticism, and philosophical pessimism. Exploring the work of Thomas Ligotti, Georg…