Question
An Ann and Jeff VanderMeer anthology collects stories of the “New” form of this genre, which China Miéville (“mee-AY-vul”) equated with the image of the tentacle. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this adjective that describes supernatural fiction evoking “unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces.” A pulp magazine named for this adjective published stories like “The Dunwich Horror” in the 1930s.
ANSWER: weird [accept weird fiction; accept The New Weird; accept Weird Tales]
[10e] This author defined the term “weird fiction” in the essay “The Supernatural Horror in Literature.” Weird Tales published many uncanny stories from this author’s Cthulhu (“kuh-THOO-loo”) mythos.
ANSWER: H. P. Lovecraft [or Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
[10h] In a seminal short story of weird fiction, these mysterious objects seem to change position at night and kill a peasant while tormenting two canoers on the Danube.
ANSWER: willow trees [accept “The Willows”; prompt on trees or plants] (“The Willows” is by Algernon Blackwood.)
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Brown A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont A | South Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia B | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida A | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Florida B | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech B | Virginia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Iowa State A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Imperial A | Michigan A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| MIT A | UC Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Maryland A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota B | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Penn A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Purdue A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | McGill A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rutgers B | Vanderbilt A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Texas A | Harvard A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |