http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/2662/william-j-hugel Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:37:57 -0400 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:37:57 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1032/developing-weirdness-through-cartographic-destabilization-in-jeff-vandermeers-annihilation By William J. Hugel - In Laird Barron’s (2014) essay for the inaugural edition of Year’s Best Weird Fiction, We Are For the Weird, he details his idea of a weird tale as a story that “contravenes reality in some essential manner . . . [that] emanates disquiet or disorientation” (p. 14). He goes on to quote an interview he conducted with Weird Tales magazine in which he further defines the weird as that which has a “sense of dislocation from mundane reality,” (Barron, 2014, p. 15) a notion that mirrors Jeff and Ann VanderMeers’ (2011) introductory review of another weird tale... Mon, 11 May 2015 09:24 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1032/developing-weirdness-through-cartographic-destabilization-in-jeff-vandermeers-annihilation