/lit/ - Literature

>>5032353
Tao Lin is pretty weird.

Clark Ashton Smith. Penguin recently published a good collection of his works, ranging from his short stories to his poetry.

Well of course there's Perdido Street Station.
I'm definitely watching this thread.

>>5032360
Oh, also Jeff Vandermeer for "new weird". Particularly City of Saints and Mad Men.

>>5032361
I second that. One of the weird novel I read.

>>5032367

Is there anything that differentiates New Weird from old Weird, aside from its newness?

OP, tell me about "weird". What does that mean? Strange style or strange substance? Or both? Which would be weirder to you, strange writing style or strange subject matter?

>>5032375
I think it's just about being weird, whereas before it was a precursor to science fiction and fantasy.
Also something about being well-written and poetic.

>>5032391
It's a thing, anon.
"Weird Fiction" is now a genre, apparently inspired by writers such as Lovecraft.

>>5032353
Motorman by David Ohle for a touchstone of modern weird literature.

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter for a weird fiction book that's actually decent.

Cyclonopedia for some just off the wall batshit stuff by an author that nobody even knows is a real person or the pen name for a group of people or what.

Anybody else read Cyclonopedia?

>>5032396
Yeah, it's a thing. I just finished something weird and I liked it a lot.
But tell me about this Robert Chambers guy. How is this book weird? Is this the same Chambers who wrote "The Hidden Children"?

>>5032458
I've read some of Cyclonopedia, if you like that sort of thing I recommend you look up the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit or CCRU

>>5032480
Oh, I don't care for it at all, I just wondered if anyone else had experienced it because it's just so fucking weird.

Example:
Paranoia, in the Cthulhu Mythos and in Drujite-infested Zoroastriansim, manifests itself as a sophisticated hygiene-Complex associated with the demented Aryanistic obsession with purity and the structure of monotheism. This arch-sabotaged paranoia, in which the destination of purity overlaps with the emerging zone of the outside, is called schizotrategy. If, both for Lovecraft and the Aryans, purity must be safeguarded by an excessive paranoia, it is because only such paranoia and rigorous closure can attract the forces of the Outside and effectuate cosmic akienage in the form of radical openness - that is, being butchered and cracked open. Drujite cults fully developed this schizotrategic line through the fusion of Aryanistic purity with Zoroastrian monotheism. The Zoroastrian heresiarchs such as Akht soon discovered the immense potential of schyzotrategy for xeno-calls, subversion and sabotage. As a sorcerous line, schizotrategy opens the entire monotheistic culture to cosmodromic openness and its epidemic meshworks. As the nervous system of Lovecraftian strategic paranoia, openness is identified as 'being laid, cracked, butchered open' through a schizotrategic participation with the Outside. In terms of the xeno-call and schizitrategy, the non-localizable outside emerges as the xeno-chemical inside or the Insider.

>>5032361

I've heard some good stuff about China Mievelle, and I've been meaning to read Dial H, but can an entire novel really stand on the weird fiction genre?

>>5032506

>that entire paragraph

>>5032506
That sounds like that pomo generator except for we-fi.

I am not sure if I fully understood Court of the Dragon.

>>5032353
This book is a committment

>>5032477
The main characters get insane after reading a certain book which is named King in Yellow. The stories I read so far are basically prime examples for unreliable narrators. The shit they describe and what they claim to see isn't necessarily real, some parts have nice twists and the whole story behind the story is pretty weird and interesting. Just try it, the first story of the book is quite short and one of the best there. Read the rest if you liked it.
And yeah, it's the same Chambers.

>>5032578

Love this one, surprised it's not recommended more often.

>>5032531
>Dial H
I can vouch for the quality of this.

>>5032353
I always liked The Man Who Was Thursday, but it's a bit religious at the end for some people.

>>5032531
>but can an entire novel really stand on the weird fiction genre?
Yes. But there are only a handful of them.

>pic related

>>5032353
"Snuff" - chuck palahniuk