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In this episode, Phil and JF discuss Vanessa Onwuemezi's, "Dark Neighbourhood," a tale of scintillant darkness from her debut collection of the same name. This strangest of strange stories is set in a vast encampment of destitute yet hopeful people whose lives consist entirely of waiting for their turn to step through the iron gates of the Beyond. Living off the dregs of civilization, they seem the last of our kind. They are the ones who, having made it to the front of the line, have the dubious honour of contemplating directly the mystery that awaits us all. Unlike anything we've covered on the show, "Dark Neighbourhood" is a chilling and moving story that elicits interpretation as elegantly as it resists it.

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Vanessa Omwuemezi, Dark Neighbourhood
\nPeter Breugel, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
\nWeird Studies, Episode 140 on \u201cSpirited Away\u201d
\nKarl Marx, Capital
\nPhil Ford, Dig
\nMurray Bookchin, Post-Scarcity Anarchism
\nWeird Studies, Episode 98 on \u201cTaboo\u201d
\nMichael Wadleigh (dir.), Woodstock
\nSamuel R. Delaney, Dahlgren
\nLeonard Cohen, \u201cWaiting for the Miracle
\nMartin Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd
\nOne red paperclip, story of guy who traded a paper clip for a house
\nWeird Studies, Episode 101 on Tanizaki
\nJames Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld
\nGeorge Steiner, Real Presences
\nH. P. Lovecraft, \u201cNyarlothotep\u201d
\nAlexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall, \u201cSovereignty and the UFO\u201d
\nWeird Studies, Episode 144 on Hellraiser
\nWeird Studies, Episode 29 on Lovecraft