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
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
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonHouse of Stairs by William SleatorThe House on the Borderland by William Hope HodgsonOur Lady of Darkness by Fritz LeiberThe Willows by Algernon Blackwood
Pre-1980 Weird Fiction
22 books — 8 voters

Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan EllisonThe Best of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. LovecraftHarlan Ellison  by Ellen WeilDangerous Visions by Harlan EllisonDeathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison
Best Weird Story Collections
61 books — 14 voters
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroRedemption by Regina M. JosephBoy, Snow, Bird by Helen OyeyemiThe Mother Next Door by Andrea DunlopThe Queen's Envoy by Lord David Prosser
Genre-Bending True Crime
23 books — 10 voters


One day John J. Eastwood said, “There is a bad guy in town.” He said, “I want to fight him.” “First”, he said, “I’m going to have some whiskey.” Then he went outside and started a fight. But he got shot. But he didn’t really get shot. But he killed a hot dog! The next day he was dead. We had his funeral..... Kids, this is about westerns
chris mackey, Radio Mustard: Book One: The Weight

Brian Evenson
Every time you think you have the world figured, trust me, that’s just when the world’s got you figured and is about to spring and break your back
Brian Evenson, A Collapse of Horses

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