ICKY, STICKY, AND STRANGE
Thoughts on George MacDonald and Fantasy’s First Novel
6 min readAug 28, 2021
Genre can be a rigid, exclusionary concept, a law chiseled upon sacred tablets. And yet, fantasy often pulls other creative works into its oozing, pseudopod grasp — absorbing everything in a slow, but deliberate crawl across literature. If the law of genre declares anything with a touch of the supernatural as “fantasy,” then the…