Weird fiction has its own consistency, which can be most clearly delineated by comparing it to two adjacent modes, Fantasy and the Uncanny: 1/4
Fantasy (Tolkien is the exemplar here) presupposes a completed World, a world that's superficially different to 'ours' (there may be different species & supernatural forces) but is politically all-too familiar -with some nostalgia for the ordered organization of feudal hierarchy
The Uncanny - the strangely familiar, the unhomely, the unheimlich - meanwhile, is set in 'our' world - only that world is no longer 'ours' any more, it no longer coincides with itself, it has been estranged.
The Weird depends upon the difference between worlds -with 'world' here having an ontological sense, not an empirical difference. The political philosophical implications are clear: *there is no World*. What we call *the* world is a local consensus hallucination, a shared dream.
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