Weird fiction

A selection of chilling and unsettling short stories, novelettes, and novellas from the golden age of horror and supernatural fiction. It includes celebrated tales of ghostly apparitions, monstrous creatures, otherworldly phenomena, and macabre predicaments. The full web version features 100 titles, each with links to free public domain texts.

Outstanding--perhaps even uncomfortable--literature that transcends common tropes, characters, and even genres themselves: welcome to the New Weird.

Anomalous zones, alien structures, and doomed expeditions! This is an eclectic chart of sci-fi and horror books themed around exploration of strange and fascinating places. The titles were chosen from my list of over 60 books in the style of Annihilation, Roadside Picnic, and Rendezvous with Rama.

A reading list of New Weird books and other strange literature from the last 30 years.

A selection of sci-fi books and collections featuring grim themes and gloomy settings. The works includes dystopias, post-apocalyptic and climate fiction, as well as unsettling sci-fi horror.

A list of bizarre, trippy, and wildly imaginative graphic novels and comic book series. This is a selection from my list of the strangest 200 comic books.

These horror books and authors will take you dimension hopping and break your mind, following in the mythos and traditions set by Lovecraft himself! Tap to see the 20 must-read cosmic horror books for twists on reality! #bestbookstoread #horrorbooks #horrornovels #lovecraftianhorror

stages of literary enlightenment think of this as my literary glow-up—a love letter to the chaos of falling into, out of, and back into literary fiction. from nervously picking up a lit fic book to embracing the weird, the experimental, and the heartbreakingly human. it’s been a journey. what stage are you at now? are you a sucker for melancholic family dramas, or have you spiraled into prose so fragmented it feels like a puzzle? tell me everything. as always, check TW before picking up…

Today is Halloween and time for cover art showing haunted houses and graveyards. I count thirteen of them, mostly from the postwar era and more than half of them from two artists, Lee Brown Coye and Matt Fox. Again, there seems to be some significance to the fact that after World War II, popular culture returned or at least tried to return to prewar monsters, horror, and fantasy. Did it work? Maybe for a while. The again, maybe not. The war changed the world beyond any going back, despite…

Hypnogoria: GREAT GHOSTS OF THE SHELVES #8 - Dark Companions by Ramsey Campbell

Tales of the Grotesque. A Collection of Uneasy Tales. L.A. Lewis.

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weird fiction book recs this tier list is based on how much these books weirded me out, or how often i found myself thinking, ‘wtf is going on?’ as you know, emotions vary from person to person, so please don’t come knocking on my door claiming you didn’t find a certain book weird and demanding a refund for your time 🤺 lol thanks a bunch for your understanding! warning: these books contain an absurd amount of trigger warnings, so pls make sure to check them before deciding to read one of…

No matter how weird science fiction gets, it still always feels like a pale reflection of the incessant nuttiness of the real world.

Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre, unknown edition,

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Seeking the strange and unusual? Look to these structurally unconventional speculative fiction novels that diverge from the familiar.

weird fiction book recs this tier list is based on how much these books weirded me out, or how often i found myself thinking, ‘wtf is going on?’ as you know, emotions vary from person to person, so please don’t come knocking on my door claiming you didn’t find a certain book weird and demanding a refund for your time 🤺 lol thanks a bunch for your understanding! warning: these books contain an absurd amount of trigger warnings, so pls make sure to check them before deciding to read one of…