Weird Fiction

A “weird tale,” as defined by H.P. Lovecraft in his nonfiction writings and given early sanctuary within the pages of magazines like Weird Tales (est. 1923) is a story that has a supernatural element but does not fall into the category of traditional ghost story or Gothic tale, both popular in the 1800s. As Lovecraft wrote in 1927, the weird tale “has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains.” Instead, it represents the pursuit of some indefinable and perhaps maddeningly unreachable understanding of the world beyond the mundane — a ‘certain atmosphere ...more

New Releases Tagged "Weird Fiction"

Decomposition Book
Decomposition Book
Root Rot
Paradise Logic
Absolution (Southern Reach, #4)
Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)
Helpmeet
The Works of Vermin
A New New Me
The Book of Elsewhere
If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (John Dies at the End, #4)
Dengue Boy
Beta Vulgaris
Lost in the Garden
The Sofa
Brat
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
The City & the City
The King in Yellow
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
Borne (Borne, #1)
The Fisherman
Kraken
House of Leaves
The Call of Cthulhu
The Willows
The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2)
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
At the Mountains of Madness
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Night Lands
10 books — 5 voters
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Books With the Best First Chapter
35 books — 11 voters

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanHer Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria MachadoFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Female-Authored Weird Fiction
467 books — 184 voters
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No Ordinary House
82 books — 24 voters

Annihilation by Jeff VandermeerBorne by Jeff VandermeerFauna by Christiane VadnaisWeather and Beasts and Growing Things by Charlotte SutteeSemiosis by Sue Burke
Weird and Monstrous Eco SF
48 books — 14 voters
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Best Weird Fiction Books
1,261 books — 1,172 voters


Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe
He was afraid of the conversation he was about to have, yet he badly wanted to have it. It was like this each time. His hands trembled ever so slightly as he reached into the drawer. He removed a plain-looking pinewood box. Placing it on the desk in front of him, he opened its hinged top. Inside was a metallic cone inserted into a wooden base, set next to an electromagnet and two dry cells. He switched it on. Then came the low-pitched hum, and the faint blue aura.
Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe, The Spirit Phone

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The Demons are afraid of what we are hunting
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