Bizarre and creepy

What are the "bizarre" and the "creepy"? In this book, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most iconic and anomalous works of the 20th century belong to these two modes. The bizarre and the creepy are closely related but distinct modes, each with its own distinctive qualities. Both are often associated with horror, but this emphasis overlooks the painful fascination that such texts can exert. The bizarre and the creepy are fundamentally concerned with the outside and the unknown, which are not in themselves terrifying, even if they are always unsettling. To better understand the human condition, Mark Fisher analyzes these two borderline concepts, using the works of authors such as H. F. Lovecraft, H. G. Wells, M. R. James, Christopher Priest, Joan Lindsay, Nigel Neill, Daphne du Maurier, Alan Garner, and Margaret Atwood, as well as films by Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan Glazer, and Christopher Nolan.