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Alexandros Mantzaris

Alexandros Mantzaris is a freelance writer and translator. He is currently working on a translation of Thomas Hope’s ‘forgotten’ novel Anastasius (1819) into his own (and the narrator’s) native Greek.

Book Review: The American Weird: Concept and Medium edited by Julius Greeve and Florian Zappe

The American Weird is an essay collection divided in two parts: ‘Concept’ and ‘Medium’. Its claim to originality lies in the latter part’s focus on manifestations of the weird in non-literary media running the gamut from film and music to television and videogames. Naturally, however, these cannot be discussed in isolation from the first part’s question of ‘concept’ – of what the weird is.