What is weird fiction?
Weird fiction isa subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Weird fiction either eschews or radically reinterprets ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and other traditional antagonists of supernatural horror fiction.
Notable Authors: Thomas Ligotti, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert W. Chambers, Robert Aickman, Michael Cisco, Mark Samuels, Brian Evenson, Michael Shea, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, William Hope Hodgson, Chiaki Konaka, Junji Ito, Gemma Files, Matthew M. Bartlett, Jon Padgett, Clark Ashton Smith, Ramsey Campbell, Laird Barron, John Langan, Nathan Ballingrud, Matt Cardin, Christopher Slatsky, Richard Gavin, Brian Hodge
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