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Using a small robotic sub, scientists from Columbia University have captured rare video of arctic jellyfish slithering along the bottom of the Chukchi Sea near Utqiaġvik, Alaska. The footage came as a complete surprise to the researchers, who weren’t expecting to see jellyfish during the Arctic winter.

"Speaking with his novelist friend Paul Bourget, prior to writing Le Horla, Maupassant confessed that he frequently encountered his own double, and while he repeatedly assured himself that it was pure hallucination, he recognized that his mind was starting to slip." By Aaron Dabbah.

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“The shoggoths, the tentacles, the people of color, the salads, and all the other things Lovecraft found horrifying are things I welcome in a fictive world, and also in the real world — and one way to talk about the idiocy of bigotry and the vivid delights of a many-colored world is to take Lovecraft’s stories and stand them on their heads, as I’ve tried to do.” By David Michael Greer.

H.P. Lovecraft and J.G. Ballard both put architecture at the heart of their fiction, and both made the humble corner into a place of nightmares. By Will Wiles.

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