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
All Systems Red by Martha WellsThe Stone Sky by N.K. JemisinThe Collapsing Empire by John ScalziNew York 2140 by Kim Stanley RobinsonProvenance by Ann Leckie
2018 Hugo Award Finalists
34 books — 33 voters
The Craziest Book Ever Written by Mr. WThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonFight Club by Chuck PalahniukLong Live Hoes by Mr. W.
Crazy First Paragraph Books
7 books — 6 voters

Magic America by C.E. MedfordDogshit Saved My Life by Karl WigginsThe Stranger by Albert CamusYou Really Are Full of Shit, Aren't You? by Karl Wiggins2003 - Thanks for the Vodka by Harpie
Outlandish Books
40 books — 40 voters
Teatro Grottesco by Thomas LigottiNoctuary by Thomas LigottiMy Work is Not Yet Done by Thomas LigottiThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas LigottiSongs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti
The Best of Thomas Ligotti
19 books — 35 voters


What if it's all right that I'm mad? What if that's not my problem? What if my problem is that I don't let myself be mad? That I'm forever and always tearing chunks out of myself, trying to root out the madness. ...more
Stepan Chapman, The Troika

China Miéville
The Demons are afraid of what we are hunting
China Mieville, Perdido Street Station

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This group is for people who enjoy both literature and what I describe as "literary-genre fictio…more
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