Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Weird fiction either eschews or radically reinterprets...
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New Weird is a literary genre that emerged in the 1990s through early 2000s with characteristics of weird fiction and other speculative fiction subgenres...
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Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922. The first issue, dated...
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American musician and parodist Weird US, a series of travel guides The Weird, a 2012 anthology of weird fiction Weird fiction, speculative literature written...
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Tanith Lee (category British weird fiction writers)
was poor, they maintained a large paperback collection, and Lee read weird fiction, including "Silken Swift" by Theodore Sturgeon and "Gabriel Ernest"...
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dystopia, fairy tales, steampunk, cyberpunk, weird fiction, and some apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction. In other words, it speculates on something...
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Weird West, also known as Weird Western, is a term used for the hybrid genres of fantasy Western, horror Western and science fiction Western. The term...
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solely on fantasy and horror was Weird Tales, which was launched in 1923, and established itself as the leading weird fiction magazine over the next two decades;...
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Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 355–356 Tymn & Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 771–773...
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The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories is an anthology of weird fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Published on 30 Oct 2011, it contains...
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stories Gothic fiction Monster literature Mystery fiction Speculative fiction Thriller Weird fiction Analog horror Space horror History of horror films...
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Slipstream Weird fiction New Weird Suspense fiction Crime fiction Detective fiction Gong'an fiction Mystery fiction Thriller Mystery fiction Legal thriller...
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while the first stories belong to the genres of supernatural horror and weird fiction, The King in Yellow progressively transitions towards a more light-hearted...
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Michael Cisco (category American weird fiction writers)
Year, and declared the Best Weird Novel of 2011 by the Weird Fiction Review. He has described his work as "de-genred" fiction. Michael Terry Cisco was born...
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magazine dedicated to fantasy, Weird Tales, appeared in 1923; it was followed in 1926 by Amazing Stories, the first science fiction (sf) magazine. By the end...
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Algernon Blackwood (category British weird fiction writers)
VanderMeer, Jeff (12 March 2012). "Interview: Caitlín R. Kiernan on Weird Fiction". Weird Fiction Review. Retrieved 16 April 2018. The essay was reprinted: Jason...
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H. P. Lovecraft (category American weird fiction writers)
20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos...
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Jeff VanderMeer (category American weird fiction writers)
influential and award-winning anthologies as The New Weird, The Weird, and The Big Book of Science Fiction. VanderMeer has been called "one of the most remarkable...
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Clark Ashton Smith (category American weird fiction writers)
his weird fiction is generally macabre in subject matter, gloatingly preoccupied with images of death, decay and abnormality. Most of Smith's weird fiction...
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Fantasy literature (redirect from Fantastic fiction)
Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines. Westport: Greenwood, 1985. pp. 866. ISBN 0-313-21221-X Robert Weinberg, The Weird Tales Story...
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supernatural fiction overlaps with examples of weird fiction, horror fiction, vampire literature, ghost story, and fantasy. Elements of supernatural fiction can...
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(arts) Tasmanian Gothic Urban Gothic Weird fiction Goth music Goth subculture Birch, Dinah, ed. (2009). "Gothic fiction". The Oxford Companion to English...
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Thomas Ligotti (category American weird fiction writers)
His writings are rooted in several literary genres – most prominently weird fiction – and have been described by critics as works of philosophical horror...
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American Gods (category Weird fiction novels)
American Gods (2001) is a fantasy novel by British author Neil Gaiman. The novel is a blend of Americana, fantasy, and various strands of ancient and modern...
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Fantasy (redirect from Fantasy fiction)
fiction magazine, Weird Tales, was published. Many other similar magazines eventually followed, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction;...
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Robert E. Howard (category American weird fiction writers)
and submitted it to Weird Tales in September. This story was an experiment with the entire concept of the "weird tale" horror fiction as defined by practitioners...
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W. H. Pugmire (category American weird fiction writers)
Harry Pugmire; May 3, 1951 – March 26, 2019), was a writer of weird fiction and horror fiction based in Seattle, Washington. His works typically were published...
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Twin Peaks (category Weird fiction)
(Sheryl Lee). The show's narrative draws on the characteristics of detective fiction, but its uncanny tone, metaphysical elements, and campy, melodramatic portrayal...
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In fantasy fiction, a lich (/ˈlɪtʃ/; from the Old English līċ, meaning "corpse". Related to modern German leiche or modern Dutch lijk, both meaning 'corpse')...
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History of fantasy (redirect from History of fantasy fiction)
Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines. Westport: Greenwood, 1985. pp. 866. ISBN 0-313-21221-X Robert Weinberg, The Weird Tales Story...
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