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Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Weird fiction either eschews or radically reinterprets traditional antagonists of supernatural horror fiction, such as ghosts, vampires, and werewolves.
Weird Tales' subtitle was "The Unique Magazine", and Wright's story selections were as varied as the subtitle promised; [3] he was willing to print strange or bizarre stories with no hint of the fantastic if they were unusual enough to fit in the magazine. [89]
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories is an anthology of weird fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Published on 30 Oct 2011, [ 1 ] it contains 110 short stories, novellas and short novels.
No surprise, but 2021 made for 12 very strange months. These bizarre stories are the best weird news we reported on this year. The post The Best Weird Stories of 2021 appeared first on Nerdist.
Image credits: chrisge58 #2. He was weird as f**k, but he smeared dog s**t on his bullies combination lock before school and everybody called the bully s**t hands for 2.5 years.
Talk about a truly weird news story: In late July, Peggy Jones was mowing her lawn in Silbee, Texas, when a snake fell out of the sky and wrapped its body around her arm. Then a hawk immediately ...
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is Penguin Classics' first omnibus edition of works by seminal 20th-century American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in October 1999 and is still in print. The volume is named for the Lovecraft short story, "The Call of Cthulhu".
Thus discouraged, Lovecraft refused to submit the story for publication anywhere; without Lovecraft's knowledge, Derleth later submitted it to Weird Tales, which indeed accepted it. [3]: 76 According to the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright asked Lovecraft for permission to adapt it to radio. Lovecraft ...