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
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No Ordinary House
82 books — 24 voters

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19 books — 35 voters
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Speculative poetry
39 books — 10 voters


Stijn Moreels
…waar moet het meerkleurige vruchtlichaam bloeien dat met schimmeldraden gevormd werd…
Stijn Moreels, Indigo

The line between ghost and glitch grows thinner every day. One is a whisper from the past, the other a whisper from the machine—both leave traces, and neither likes to be ignored.
Tony Brooks

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Literature of the Fantastic Book club
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An online club that discusses both Weird Fiction and Cosmic horrors using the mediums of audio b…more
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Chris and Jennie Read Chris and Jennie read books together.
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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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