This is the kind of question explored in New Weird fiction, a genre where ecosystems mutate, landscapes rebel and the line ...

“Weird fiction,” a term popularized by H. P. Lovecraft, became a self-serious genre during the twentieth century and the first years of this one.* In the hands of Samuel R. Delany, China Miéville, and ...

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Few novelists are as adept at inspiring both horror and awe as Jeff VanderMeer. The author is perhaps best known for his award-winning Southern Reach series, of which the first three ...

We all have different tastes when it comes to many things – from food to music, art, and books. The reasons behind it can be complicated, but we’re not here to discuss them. Instead, we’re here to ...

On June 18, 1931, a young man named Robert Barlow mailed a letter to the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft’s stories about monstrous beings from beyond the stars were appearing regularly in the ...

There might be no contemporary writer operating on a weirder wavelength than Jeff VanderMeer. With his wife, the sci-fi and fantasy editor Ann VanderMeer, he compiled the fiction anthologies “The ...

Annihilation, the best sci-fi of 2018 Annihilation, has bewildered and impressed audiences in equal measure. Its hybrid handling of an emotional and narratively complex story isn’t for everyone – its ...

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Other Skies Weird Fiction specializes in fine, rare and out-of-print books Minnesota Live photojournalist Bill Middeke travels to Other Skies Weird Fiction in St. Paul to check out their unique ...

These days there’s a popular fashion or “cosplay” fad known a “Steampunk.” Steampunk is based on the idea of futuristic technology existing in the past, usually the 19th century, and often set in ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Tentacles reaching from the deep. Dark mold overtaking walls. A familiar forest suddenly becoming strange and threatening. These elements in literature, film and games define ...