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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

What have you read lately?

>> No.20844908

>>20844894
Just say lovecraftian fiction.

>> No.20844968

>>20844908
Retard. Weird fiction predates Lovecraft.

>> No.20845020

Why not make it a horror general? Weird fiction feels a bit too narrow for a whole general.

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20845023

Here’s the weirdest.

>> No.20845100

>>20844908
fpbp

>> No.20845120

>>20844908
Honestly this.

>> No.20845127

>>20845023
Fuck off gardner.

>> No.20845228

best Weird fiction if I hate women and queers?

>> No.20845510

>>20845228
Lovecraft

>> No.20845541

>>20844894
Just say gardnerian fiction

>> No.20845647

Well op the thread's off to a cracking start

>> No.20845677

>>20845023
This takes the cake.

>> No.20845779

>>20845020
I probably will

>> No.20846529

>>20844894
>John Langan
just got The fisherman, I love the fact that it's well written more than the story itself lol

>> No.20847111

Horror books aren't scary. It seems to me people read it for mysteriousness and cozy atmospheres.

>> No.20847133

>>20844908
Lovecraft didn't invent it.
Just say you love me.

>> No.20847256

>>20847111
I do it for the dread. There are certainly a lot of books out there where the atmosphere feels oppressive and disgusting as opposed to cozy

>> No.20847285

>>20847256
Yeah, I can see that. Can you share an excerpt that gives you that feel?

>> No.20847289

>>20847285
I don't exactly scan any books I read, but "Tender is the Flesh" made me want to vomit several times

>> No.20847305

>>20847289
I mean type or photograph a paragraph

>> No.20847392

>>20845541
honestly this

>> No.20848182

Just finished Negative Space. It was pretty decent apart from the dick sucking. Other recs?

>> No.20848859

>>20848182
Yeager's other book is supposedly neat