Courses & Events

Quentin S. Crisp comes to Weirdosphere this Hallowe’en to speak of the supernatural as a literary subject-matter and about literature as potentially supernatural in itself. Plan to join us on a dive into literature’s haunted pages with this singular fiction author, essayist, and poet. Enrollment opens October 14, 2026.

This event starts October 31.

In October, Erik Davis returns to Weirdosphere to guide us through a close and prophetic reading of Philip K. Dick’s 1968 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, one of Dick’s most explicitly ethical novels, and best known as the novel that formed the basis for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Davis will present Dick’s work and life in the late 1960s and lay out some of the novel’s major themes. We will be reading the novel not so much as fiction or science fiction but as a prophetic lens on today’s polycrisis, aspects of which resonate uncannily with Dick’s philosophical and visionary concerns.

This course is in progress and expected to finish on October 25.

What can the horror genre reveal to us about the nature of truth? Works of horror fiction and cinema often hinge on the gradual revelation of a terrible truth, a truth the protagonists begin by doubting, only to be forced to reckon with as the story unfolds. Why does a culture that has stopped believing in spirits and demons insist on paying to be frightened by them in books and films, and why does that fright, at some level, feel more like being reminded of something than being told something new? Is horror an ongoing rehearsal for the toppling of the post-truth age? Across six weeks, participants will explore horror as a fear of certain truths we already know.

This course is in progress and expected to finish on October 24.