Outstanding--perhaps even uncomfortable--literature that transcends common tropes, characters, and even genres themselves: welcome to the New Weird.
A list of 240 recommended books that are strange, dreamlike, or surreal. Includes works by VanderMeer, Miéville, Dick, Murakami, Ligotti, Kafka, and Aickman.
Short and not-so-sweet.
You already know "American Psycho" is on this list.
A list of over 80 sci-fi books with upsetting themes or a gloomy tone. Includes dystopic, post-apocalyptic, and horror works by Peter Watts, Stephen Donaldson, and Harlan Ellison.
Discover surreal & weird books where beautiful prose entwines with bizarre worlds that challenge the bounds of reality and imagination.
I promised six weeks ago to write about witches. Finally, here they are. I count eleven covers of Weird Tales showing witches, wizards...
If you love your books strange, uncanny, and downright bizarre, you're going to want to read these books of the new weird genre.
Women’s Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890 – 1940 is deliciously thrilling collection of literary ghost stories, thrillers, and other creepy tales.
The Best Of The Worst
With its analog sensibility and Spielbergian visual cues, Netflix’s Stranger Things telegraphs its influences upfront, and part of the show’s success derives from our recognition of the 1980’s textures of Close Encounters or the first bars of Joy Division drifting over a montage of the Indiana-based Byers family mourning the disappearance of 12-year-old Will. Over […]
You want a really weird ride? A science fiction or fantasy epic that stretches your brain like taffy and ties it into strange irregular shapes? Forget television or movies: books are where the really off-kilter stories are told in speculative fiction.
Here are some creepy historical horror novels to send old-fashioned chills up your spine and make you grateful that you live in the age of electricity.
Through vampiric trysts, heady visions of ghostly processions, and metaphorical tales of murdering one's own psyche, the portrait of a truly unique writer of the strange tale emerges. R. Murray Gilchrist was lauded for his imagination and florid, illustrative style during the fin-de-siecle period, and this new collection showcases the very best of his short fiction. Despite being admired by H. G. Wells and described by Arnold Bennett as "almost the peak of perfection in that difficult genre [of short fiction]," Gilchrist and his works are now largely forgotten. Packed with thrilling encounters and unforgettable descriptions from the weirdest ebb of the writer's mind, this anthology aims to introduce a new readership to Gilchrist's entrancing and influential oeuvre. | Author: R. Murray Gilchrist | Publisher: British Library Publishing | Publication Date: Jan 02, 2022 | Number of Pages: 256 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 071235400X | ISBN-13: 9780712354004
Seeking the strange and unusual? Look to these structurally unconventional speculative fiction novels that diverge from the familiar.
We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, and much, much more- there are book
You touched an old stone, took a wrong turn, or got too curious about what’s inside an ancient cave. Now the ancient spirits demand a sacrifice. Here are 10 novels of horrors from the past.
The American magazine Weird Tales launched the careers of some of the greatest writers of horror, strange, eerie, and macabre fiction. H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos first appeared in this magazine’s pages with The Call of Cthulhu in 1928. Seabury Quinn’s marvellous occult detective Jules de Grandin battled demons, werewolves, and ghosts over numerous … Continue reading "Sexy Sirens Up To No Good and Hot Dames Battling Evil on the Covers of ‘Weird Tales’"
This month’s choices for books that readers might miss were so plentiful that my mind eventually created a theme: Gonzo Books Involving Women. Each of the novels on this list uses something—a trope…
Discover surreal & weird books where beautiful prose entwines with bizarre worlds that challenge the bounds of reality and imagination.
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, we’re reading Arthur Machen’s “Novel of the Black Seal,” first published in 1895 as part of The Three Impostors. Spoilers ahead. […]
With its analog sensibility and Spielbergian visual cues, Netflix’s Stranger Things telegraphs its influences upfront, and part of the show’s success derives from our recognition of the 1980’s textures of Close Encounters or the first bars of Joy Division drifting over a montage of the Indiana-based Byers family mourning the disappearance of 12-year-old Will. Over […]
