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A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2 Excerpt: Regression Pills. Today we are featuring the first of two excerpts from David Leo Rice’s A Room in Dodge City Volume 2. Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed Rice, a Brooklyn-based Weird author whose work has been published in The Collagist, Black Clock, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, The Rumpus, andelsewhere.
PATRICIA PICCININI'S MYTHIC IMAGINATION Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap THE WEIRDNESS IN HOUSE OF LEAVES This is not for you - the novel’s dedication page. House of Leaves (Pantheon Books, 2000) is a cluster of stories told more in their metatext than text, a book that took ten years to write and has given rise to another book (The Whalestoe Letters), an album (Haunted, by Danielewski’s sister, Anne – known as Poe), and an author with a reputation for being so ‘experimental’ his nextMUTATION PLANET
Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close, D.P. WATT AND THE SURREAL: "I SEE FICTION AS AN This year has been a fantastic year for D.P. Watt. First, his short story collection, An Emporium of Automata, was reprinted by Eibonvale Press; we printed one of the stories from this collection, “Erbach’s Emporium of Automata”. Also, Watt has a new collection this year from Egaeus Press called The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications and Watt’s fiction was collected in INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINITY STUDENT The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. This, then, isboth a story
THE LAST HOUR OF THE BENGAL TIGER Yoko Ogawa is a Japanese writer. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Harper’s Magazine. Since 1988, she has produced more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, which have been published in several countries. In 2008 her collection of three novellas, The Diving Pool, won the Shirley Jackson Award foroutstanding
GHOSTS, FEAR, AND PARALLEL WORLDS: THE SUPERNATURAL Good day universe. I DEMAND that Jean Ray’s works be fully realized into English forthwith. Other languages may also find favour. Now, without fail. Malpertuis alone is insufficient. And Universe, i will not pay the prices for the inert old books anthologizing his words. COLD COMFORT: LARRY FESSENDEN'S "THE LAST WINTER" In our search for optimal ways to use natural resources, human beings have discovered subtle connections between the ecosphere, the raw materials comprising our world, and the fate of our own species. The fragility of this planet’s living environment was a concept all but undreamt a mere century ago, when the Earth promised to supply anendless
WEIRD FICTION REVIEWNONFICTIONFICTIONWEIRD THOUGHTSCONTACTBOOKSART WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
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A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2 Excerpt: Regression Pills. Today we are featuring the first of two excerpts from David Leo Rice’s A Room in Dodge City Volume 2. Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed Rice, a Brooklyn-based Weird author whose work has been published in The Collagist, Black Clock, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, The Rumpus, andelsewhere.
PATRICIA PICCININI'S MYTHIC IMAGINATION Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap THE WEIRDNESS IN HOUSE OF LEAVES This is not for you - the novel’s dedication page. House of Leaves (Pantheon Books, 2000) is a cluster of stories told more in their metatext than text, a book that took ten years to write and has given rise to another book (The Whalestoe Letters), an album (Haunted, by Danielewski’s sister, Anne – known as Poe), and an author with a reputation for being so ‘experimental’ his nextMUTATION PLANET
Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close, D.P. WATT AND THE SURREAL: "I SEE FICTION AS AN This year has been a fantastic year for D.P. Watt. First, his short story collection, An Emporium of Automata, was reprinted by Eibonvale Press; we printed one of the stories from this collection, “Erbach’s Emporium of Automata”. Also, Watt has a new collection this year from Egaeus Press called The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications and Watt’s fiction was collected in INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINITY STUDENT The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. This, then, isboth a story
THE LAST HOUR OF THE BENGAL TIGER Yoko Ogawa is a Japanese writer. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Harper’s Magazine. Since 1988, she has produced more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, which have been published in several countries. In 2008 her collection of three novellas, The Diving Pool, won the Shirley Jackson Award foroutstanding
GHOSTS, FEAR, AND PARALLEL WORLDS: THE SUPERNATURAL Good day universe. I DEMAND that Jean Ray’s works be fully realized into English forthwith. Other languages may also find favour. Now, without fail. Malpertuis alone is insufficient. And Universe, i will not pay the prices for the inert old books anthologizing his words. COLD COMFORT: LARRY FESSENDEN'S "THE LAST WINTER" In our search for optimal ways to use natural resources, human beings have discovered subtle connections between the ecosphere, the raw materials comprising our world, and the fate of our own species. The fragility of this planet’s living environment was a concept all but undreamt a mere century ago, when the Earth promised to supply anendless
THE WEIRD: AN INTRODUCTION (Image by Jeremy Zerfoss) Buy The Weird compendium here A “weird tale,” as defined by H.P. Lovecraft in his nonfiction writings and given early sanctuary within the pages of magazines like Weird Tales (est. 1923) is a story that has a supernatural element but does not fall into the category of traditional ghost story or Gothic tale,GIO CLAIRVAL
Weirdfictionreview.com’s 101 Weird Writers: #7 – Georg Heym: The Expressionistic Power of Heym and "The Dissection". by Gio Clairval. This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined byTHE DISSECTION
Georg Heym (1887- 1912) was a German poet and playwright who also wrote one novel. Heym believed in the idea of the “demon city,” which symbolized his repudiation of romanticism in the midst of the rise of industrialism and repressive systems. Still, he lived a wild and passionate life, accompanied by depression and restlessness. In1910 he
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Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close,THE NIGHT SCHOOL
The following story was originally published in Grimscribe (1991) but can now be found in a new collection from Penguin Classics called Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe. Instructor Carniero was holding class once again. I discovered this fact on my return from a movie theater. It was late and I thought, “Why not take a short cut across the grounds of THE STRANGE CREATURES OF ARTIST O.L. SAMUELS O.L. Samuels is an artist who makes his strange and beautiful creatures “with the help of the spirit.” Each piece is carved very precisely based on how the spirit moves him and then he spends hours painstakingly decorating them. He has used tree trunks, branches and roots, layers of paint, glitter, sawdust and beads. Surprisingly he isSLITTEN GORGE
Conrad Williams is the author of seven novels (Head Injuries, London Revenant, The Unblemished, One, Decay Inevitable, Blonde on a Stick and Loss of Separation), four novellas (Nearly People, Game, The Scalding Rooms and Rain) and two collections of short stories (Use Once Then Destroy, Born With Teeth). He has previously won the AugustDerleth Award
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A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2 Excerpt: Regression Pills. Today we are featuring the first of two excerpts from David Leo Rice’s A Room in Dodge City Volume 2. Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed Rice, a Brooklyn-based Weird author whose work has been published in The Collagist, Black Clock, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, The Rumpus, andelsewhere.
PATRICIA PICCININI'S MYTHIC IMAGINATION Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap THE WEIRDNESS IN HOUSE OF LEAVES This is not for you - the novel’s dedication page. House of Leaves (Pantheon Books, 2000) is a cluster of stories told more in their metatext than text, a book that took ten years to write and has given rise to another book (The Whalestoe Letters), an album (Haunted, by Danielewski’s sister, Anne – known as Poe), and an author with a reputation for being so ‘experimental’ his nextMUTATION PLANET
Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close, D.P. WATT AND THE SURREAL: "I SEE FICTION AS AN This year has been a fantastic year for D.P. Watt. First, his short story collection, An Emporium of Automata, was reprinted by Eibonvale Press; we printed one of the stories from this collection, “Erbach’s Emporium of Automata”. Also, Watt has a new collection this year from Egaeus Press called The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications and Watt’s fiction was collected in INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINITY STUDENT The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. This, then, isboth a story
THE LAST HOUR OF THE BENGAL TIGER Yoko Ogawa is a Japanese writer. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Harper’s Magazine. Since 1988, she has produced more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, which have been published in several countries. In 2008 her collection of three novellas, The Diving Pool, won the Shirley Jackson Award foroutstanding
GHOSTS, FEAR, AND PARALLEL WORLDS: THE SUPERNATURAL Good day universe. I DEMAND that Jean Ray’s works be fully realized into English forthwith. Other languages may also find favour. Now, without fail. Malpertuis alone is insufficient. And Universe, i will not pay the prices for the inert old books anthologizing his words. COLD COMFORT: LARRY FESSENDEN'S "THE LAST WINTER" In our search for optimal ways to use natural resources, human beings have discovered subtle connections between the ecosphere, the raw materials comprising our world, and the fate of our own species. The fragility of this planet’s living environment was a concept all but undreamt a mere century ago, when the Earth promised to supply anendless
WEIRD FICTION REVIEWNONFICTIONFICTIONWEIRD THOUGHTSCONTACTBOOKSART WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
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A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2 Excerpt: Regression Pills. Today we are featuring the first of two excerpts from David Leo Rice’s A Room in Dodge City Volume 2. Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed Rice, a Brooklyn-based Weird author whose work has been published in The Collagist, Black Clock, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, The Rumpus, andelsewhere.
PATRICIA PICCININI'S MYTHIC IMAGINATION Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap THE WEIRDNESS IN HOUSE OF LEAVES This is not for you - the novel’s dedication page. House of Leaves (Pantheon Books, 2000) is a cluster of stories told more in their metatext than text, a book that took ten years to write and has given rise to another book (The Whalestoe Letters), an album (Haunted, by Danielewski’s sister, Anne – known as Poe), and an author with a reputation for being so ‘experimental’ his nextMUTATION PLANET
Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close, D.P. WATT AND THE SURREAL: "I SEE FICTION AS AN This year has been a fantastic year for D.P. Watt. First, his short story collection, An Emporium of Automata, was reprinted by Eibonvale Press; we printed one of the stories from this collection, “Erbach’s Emporium of Automata”. Also, Watt has a new collection this year from Egaeus Press called The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications and Watt’s fiction was collected in INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINITY STUDENT The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. This, then, isboth a story
THE LAST HOUR OF THE BENGAL TIGER Yoko Ogawa is a Japanese writer. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Harper’s Magazine. Since 1988, she has produced more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, which have been published in several countries. In 2008 her collection of three novellas, The Diving Pool, won the Shirley Jackson Award foroutstanding
GHOSTS, FEAR, AND PARALLEL WORLDS: THE SUPERNATURAL Good day universe. I DEMAND that Jean Ray’s works be fully realized into English forthwith. Other languages may also find favour. Now, without fail. Malpertuis alone is insufficient. And Universe, i will not pay the prices for the inert old books anthologizing his words. COLD COMFORT: LARRY FESSENDEN'S "THE LAST WINTER" In our search for optimal ways to use natural resources, human beings have discovered subtle connections between the ecosphere, the raw materials comprising our world, and the fate of our own species. The fragility of this planet’s living environment was a concept all but undreamt a mere century ago, when the Earth promised to supply anendless
THE WEIRD: AN INTRODUCTION (Image by Jeremy Zerfoss) Buy The Weird compendium here A “weird tale,” as defined by H.P. Lovecraft in his nonfiction writings and given early sanctuary within the pages of magazines like Weird Tales (est. 1923) is a story that has a supernatural element but does not fall into the category of traditional ghost story or Gothic tale,GIO CLAIRVAL
Weirdfictionreview.com’s 101 Weird Writers: #7 – Georg Heym: The Expressionistic Power of Heym and "The Dissection". by Gio Clairval. This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined byTHE DISSECTION
Georg Heym (1887- 1912) was a German poet and playwright who also wrote one novel. Heym believed in the idea of the “demon city,” which symbolized his repudiation of romanticism in the midst of the rise of industrialism and repressive systems. Still, he lived a wild and passionate life, accompanied by depression and restlessness. In1910 he
REVIEW: "ICE" BY ANNA KAVAN WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
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Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close,THE NIGHT SCHOOL
The following story was originally published in Grimscribe (1991) but can now be found in a new collection from Penguin Classics called Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe. Instructor Carniero was holding class once again. I discovered this fact on my return from a movie theater. It was late and I thought, “Why not take a short cut across the grounds of THE STRANGE CREATURES OF ARTIST O.L. SAMUELS O.L. Samuels is an artist who makes his strange and beautiful creatures “with the help of the spirit.” Each piece is carved very precisely based on how the spirit moves him and then he spends hours painstakingly decorating them. He has used tree trunks, branches and roots, layers of paint, glitter, sawdust and beads. Surprisingly he isSLITTEN GORGE
Conrad Williams is the author of seven novels (Head Injuries, London Revenant, The Unblemished, One, Decay Inevitable, Blonde on a Stick and Loss of Separation), four novellas (Nearly People, Game, The Scalding Rooms and Rain) and two collections of short stories (Use Once Then Destroy, Born With Teeth). He has previously won the AugustDerleth Award
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: NEIL GAIMAN ON THE WEIRD Neil Gaiman is an iconic and hugely popular bestselling English writer living in the United States. He has written across multiple genres and media, including fiction, graphic novels, and film. Honors include the Hugo Award, Nebula award, and Locus award, along with the Newberry medal and the Carnegie Medal in Literature. THE BEAUTIFUL MACABRE: THE WORK OF BENEDETTA BONICHI If you are in New York City this summer, then make some time to see Head (July 10-Aug 11), an exhibit curated by Robert Curcio and D. Dominick Lombardi for Bosi Contemporary. Featuring the works of Christophe Avella-Bagur, Benedetta Bonichi, Richard Butler, Lori Field, Rieko Fujinami, Chambliss Giobbi, Ronald L. Hall, Nina Levy, D. Dominick Lombardi, Esther WEIRD FICTION REVIEWNONFICTIONFICTIONWEIRD THOUGHTSCONTACTBOOKSART WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
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A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2 Excerpt: Regression Pills. Today we are featuring the first of two excerpts from David Leo Rice’s A Room in Dodge City Volume 2. Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed Rice, a Brooklyn-based Weird author whose work has been published in The Collagist, Black Clock, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, The Rumpus, andelsewhere.
GIO CLAIRVAL
Weirdfictionreview.com’s 101 Weird Writers: #7 – Georg Heym: The Expressionistic Power of Heym and "The Dissection". by Gio Clairval. This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINITY STUDENT The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. This, then, isboth a story
D.P. WATT AND THE SURREAL: "I SEE FICTION AS AN This year has been a fantastic year for D.P. Watt. First, his short story collection, An Emporium of Automata, was reprinted by Eibonvale Press; we printed one of the stories from this collection, “Erbach’s Emporium of Automata”. Also, Watt has a new collection this year from Egaeus Press called The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications and Watt’s fiction was collected inMUTATION PLANET
Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close, PATRICIA PICCININI'S MYTHIC IMAGINATION Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap GHOSTS, FEAR, AND PARALLEL WORLDS: THE SUPERNATURAL Good day universe. I DEMAND that Jean Ray’s works be fully realized into English forthwith. Other languages may also find favour. Now, without fail. Malpertuis alone is insufficient. And Universe, i will not pay the prices for the inert old books anthologizing his words. THE SUPPER | WEIRD FICTION REVIEW The decision to translate “La Cena” was largely dictated by the preeminent place it occupies in Reyes’ corpus; “The Supper,” written when he was still a student and published in 1912, is a dreamlike story reminiscent in certain superficial ways to the work of some of the Continental decadents but, in its basic character,thoroughly
GATEWAYS TO THE WEIRD: AN INTERVIEW WITH MATTHEW M Matthew M. Bartlett is the author of The Stay-Awake Men & Other Unstable Entities, Gateways to Abomination, and other books of supernatural horror. His short stories have appeared in a variety of anthologies, including Lost Signals, A Breath from the Sky, Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 3, and the forthcoming Darker Companions, a tribute to Ramsey Campbell. WEIRD FICTION REVIEWNONFICTIONFICTIONWEIRD THOUGHTSCONTACTBOOKSART WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
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A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2 Excerpt: Regression Pills. Today we are featuring the first of two excerpts from David Leo Rice’s A Room in Dodge City Volume 2. Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed Rice, a Brooklyn-based Weird author whose work has been published in The Collagist, Black Clock, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, The Rumpus, andelsewhere.
GIO CLAIRVAL
Weirdfictionreview.com’s 101 Weird Writers: #7 – Georg Heym: The Expressionistic Power of Heym and "The Dissection". by Gio Clairval. This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINITY STUDENT The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. This, then, isboth a story
D.P. WATT AND THE SURREAL: "I SEE FICTION AS AN This year has been a fantastic year for D.P. Watt. First, his short story collection, An Emporium of Automata, was reprinted by Eibonvale Press; we printed one of the stories from this collection, “Erbach’s Emporium of Automata”. Also, Watt has a new collection this year from Egaeus Press called The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications and Watt’s fiction was collected inMUTATION PLANET
Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close, PATRICIA PICCININI'S MYTHIC IMAGINATION Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap GHOSTS, FEAR, AND PARALLEL WORLDS: THE SUPERNATURAL Good day universe. I DEMAND that Jean Ray’s works be fully realized into English forthwith. Other languages may also find favour. Now, without fail. Malpertuis alone is insufficient. And Universe, i will not pay the prices for the inert old books anthologizing his words. THE SUPPER | WEIRD FICTION REVIEW The decision to translate “La Cena” was largely dictated by the preeminent place it occupies in Reyes’ corpus; “The Supper,” written when he was still a student and published in 1912, is a dreamlike story reminiscent in certain superficial ways to the work of some of the Continental decadents but, in its basic character,thoroughly
GATEWAYS TO THE WEIRD: AN INTERVIEW WITH MATTHEW M Matthew M. Bartlett is the author of The Stay-Awake Men & Other Unstable Entities, Gateways to Abomination, and other books of supernatural horror. His short stories have appeared in a variety of anthologies, including Lost Signals, A Breath from the Sky, Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 3, and the forthcoming Darker Companions, a tribute to Ramsey Campbell. THE WEIRD: AN INTRODUCTION (Image by Jeremy Zerfoss) Buy The Weird compendium here A “weird tale,” as defined by H.P. Lovecraft in his nonfiction writings and given early sanctuary within the pages of magazines like Weird Tales (est. 1923) is a story that has a supernatural element but does not fall into the category of traditional ghost story or Gothic tale,GIO CLAIRVAL
Weirdfictionreview.com’s 101 Weird Writers: #7 – Georg Heym: The Expressionistic Power of Heym and "The Dissection". by Gio Clairval. This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined byTHE DISSECTION
Georg Heym (1887- 1912) was a German poet and playwright who also wrote one novel. Heym believed in the idea of the “demon city,” which symbolized his repudiation of romanticism in the midst of the rise of industrialism and repressive systems. Still, he lived a wild and passionate life, accompanied by depression and restlessness. In1910 he
THE WEIRDNESS IN HOUSE OF LEAVES This is not for you - the novel’s dedication page House of Leaves (Pantheon Books, 2000) is a cluster of stories told more in their metatext than text, a book that took ten years to write and has given rise to another book (The Whalestoe Letters), an album REVIEW: "ICE" BY ANNA KAVAN WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
THE NIGHT SCHOOL
The following story was originally published in Grimscribe (1991) but can now be found in a new collection from Penguin Classics called Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe. Instructor Carniero was holding class once again. I discovered this fact on my return from a movie theater. It was late and I thought, “Why not take a short cut across the grounds of M.R. JAMES AND THE QUANTUM VAMPIRE Many thanks to the author for kind permission to reprint this essay. It originally appeared in Collapse IV — please visit their website and consider a donation to their efforts if you enjoy this piece. — The editors The author, with skull and octopus, yesterday. 0. Prologue: the Tentacular Novum Taking for granted, as we do, its ubiquitous cultural debris, 101 WEIRD WRITERS #42 This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by the schedule of posts. Ramsey Campbell (1946 – ) is an award-winning horror-fiction author from Liverpool, England, mentored by Lovecraftprotégé August
GATEWAYS TO THE WEIRD: AN INTERVIEW WITH MATTHEW M Matthew M. Bartlett is the author of The Stay-Awake Men & Other Unstable Entities, Gateways to Abomination, and other books of supernatural horror. His short stories have appeared in a variety of anthologies, including Lost Signals, A Breath from the Sky, Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 3, and the forthcoming Darker Companions, a tribute to Ramsey Campbell. WEIRDFICTIONREVIEW.COM'S 101 WEIRD WRITERS: #2--AUGUSTO This is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. Every Tuesday and Thursday, Weirdfictionreview.com will feature a different writer. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by the schedule of posts. Augusto Monterroso (1921 — 2003) was a Guatemalan writer known for WEIRD FICTION REVIEWNONFICTIONFICTIONWEIRD THOUGHTSCONTACTBOOKSART WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
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A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2 Excerpt: Regression Pills. Today we are featuring the first of two excerpts from David Leo Rice’s A Room in Dodge City Volume 2. Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed Rice, a Brooklyn-based Weird author whose work has been published in The Collagist, Black Clock, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, The Rumpus, andelsewhere.
GIO CLAIRVAL
Weirdfictionreview.com’s 101 Weird Writers: #7 – Georg Heym: The Expressionistic Power of Heym and "The Dissection". by Gio Clairval. This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINITY STUDENT The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. This, then, isboth a story
D.P. WATT AND THE SURREAL: "I SEE FICTION AS AN This year has been a fantastic year for D.P. Watt. First, his short story collection, An Emporium of Automata, was reprinted by Eibonvale Press; we printed one of the stories from this collection, “Erbach’s Emporium of Automata”. Also, Watt has a new collection this year from Egaeus Press called The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications and Watt’s fiction was collected inMUTATION PLANET
Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close, PATRICIA PICCININI'S MYTHIC IMAGINATION Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap GHOSTS, FEAR, AND PARALLEL WORLDS: THE SUPERNATURAL Good day universe. I DEMAND that Jean Ray’s works be fully realized into English forthwith. Other languages may also find favour. Now, without fail. Malpertuis alone is insufficient. And Universe, i will not pay the prices for the inert old books anthologizing his words. THE SUPPER | WEIRD FICTION REVIEW The decision to translate “La Cena” was largely dictated by the preeminent place it occupies in Reyes’ corpus; “The Supper,” written when he was still a student and published in 1912, is a dreamlike story reminiscent in certain superficial ways to the work of some of the Continental decadents but, in its basic character,thoroughly
GATEWAYS TO THE WEIRD: AN INTERVIEW WITH MATTHEW M Matthew M. Bartlett is the author of The Stay-Awake Men & Other Unstable Entities, Gateways to Abomination, and other books of supernatural horror. His short stories have appeared in a variety of anthologies, including Lost Signals, A Breath from the Sky, Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 3, and the forthcoming Darker Companions, a tribute to Ramsey Campbell. WEIRD FICTION REVIEWNONFICTIONFICTIONWEIRD THOUGHTSCONTACTBOOKSART WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
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A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2 Excerpt: Regression Pills. Today we are featuring the first of two excerpts from David Leo Rice’s A Room in Dodge City Volume 2. Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed Rice, a Brooklyn-based Weird author whose work has been published in The Collagist, Black Clock, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, The Rumpus, andelsewhere.
GIO CLAIRVAL
Weirdfictionreview.com’s 101 Weird Writers: #7 – Georg Heym: The Expressionistic Power of Heym and "The Dissection". by Gio Clairval. This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINITY STUDENT The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. This, then, isboth a story
D.P. WATT AND THE SURREAL: "I SEE FICTION AS AN This year has been a fantastic year for D.P. Watt. First, his short story collection, An Emporium of Automata, was reprinted by Eibonvale Press; we printed one of the stories from this collection, “Erbach’s Emporium of Automata”. Also, Watt has a new collection this year from Egaeus Press called The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications and Watt’s fiction was collected inMUTATION PLANET
Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close, PATRICIA PICCININI'S MYTHIC IMAGINATION Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap GHOSTS, FEAR, AND PARALLEL WORLDS: THE SUPERNATURAL Good day universe. I DEMAND that Jean Ray’s works be fully realized into English forthwith. Other languages may also find favour. Now, without fail. Malpertuis alone is insufficient. And Universe, i will not pay the prices for the inert old books anthologizing his words. THE SUPPER | WEIRD FICTION REVIEW The decision to translate “La Cena” was largely dictated by the preeminent place it occupies in Reyes’ corpus; “The Supper,” written when he was still a student and published in 1912, is a dreamlike story reminiscent in certain superficial ways to the work of some of the Continental decadents but, in its basic character,thoroughly
GATEWAYS TO THE WEIRD: AN INTERVIEW WITH MATTHEW M Matthew M. Bartlett is the author of The Stay-Awake Men & Other Unstable Entities, Gateways to Abomination, and other books of supernatural horror. His short stories have appeared in a variety of anthologies, including Lost Signals, A Breath from the Sky, Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 3, and the forthcoming Darker Companions, a tribute to Ramsey Campbell. THE WEIRD: AN INTRODUCTION (Image by Jeremy Zerfoss) Buy The Weird compendium here A “weird tale,” as defined by H.P. Lovecraft in his nonfiction writings and given early sanctuary within the pages of magazines like Weird Tales (est. 1923) is a story that has a supernatural element but does not fall into the category of traditional ghost story or Gothic tale,GIO CLAIRVAL
Weirdfictionreview.com’s 101 Weird Writers: #7 – Georg Heym: The Expressionistic Power of Heym and "The Dissection". by Gio Clairval. This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined byTHE DISSECTION
Georg Heym (1887- 1912) was a German poet and playwright who also wrote one novel. Heym believed in the idea of the “demon city,” which symbolized his repudiation of romanticism in the midst of the rise of industrialism and repressive systems. Still, he lived a wild and passionate life, accompanied by depression and restlessness. In1910 he
THE WEIRDNESS IN HOUSE OF LEAVES This is not for you - the novel’s dedication page House of Leaves (Pantheon Books, 2000) is a cluster of stories told more in their metatext than text, a book that took ten years to write and has given rise to another book (The Whalestoe Letters), an album REVIEW: "ICE" BY ANNA KAVAN WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
THE NIGHT SCHOOL
The following story was originally published in Grimscribe (1991) but can now be found in a new collection from Penguin Classics called Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe. Instructor Carniero was holding class once again. I discovered this fact on my return from a movie theater. It was late and I thought, “Why not take a short cut across the grounds of M.R. JAMES AND THE QUANTUM VAMPIRE Many thanks to the author for kind permission to reprint this essay. It originally appeared in Collapse IV — please visit their website and consider a donation to their efforts if you enjoy this piece. — The editors The author, with skull and octopus, yesterday. 0. Prologue: the Tentacular Novum Taking for granted, as we do, its ubiquitous cultural debris, 101 WEIRD WRITERS #42 This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by the schedule of posts. Ramsey Campbell (1946 – ) is an award-winning horror-fiction author from Liverpool, England, mentored by Lovecraftprotégé August
GATEWAYS TO THE WEIRD: AN INTERVIEW WITH MATTHEW M Matthew M. Bartlett is the author of The Stay-Awake Men & Other Unstable Entities, Gateways to Abomination, and other books of supernatural horror. His short stories have appeared in a variety of anthologies, including Lost Signals, A Breath from the Sky, Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 3, and the forthcoming Darker Companions, a tribute to Ramsey Campbell. WEIRDFICTIONREVIEW.COM'S 101 WEIRD WRITERS: #2--AUGUSTO This is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. Every Tuesday and Thursday, Weirdfictionreview.com will feature a different writer. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by the schedule of posts. Augusto Monterroso (1921 — 2003) was a Guatemalan writer known for WEIRD FICTION REVIEWNONFICTIONFICTIONWEIRD THOUGHTSCONTACTBOOKSART WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
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A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2 Excerpt: Regression Pills. Today we are featuring the first of two excerpts from David Leo Rice’s A Room in Dodge City Volume 2. Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed Rice, a Brooklyn-based Weird author whose work has been published in The Collagist, Black Clock, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, The Rumpus, andelsewhere.
THE WEIRD: AN INTRODUCTION (Image by Jeremy Zerfoss) Buy The Weird compendium here A “weird tale,” as defined by H.P. Lovecraft in his nonfiction writings and given early sanctuary within the pages of magazines like Weird Tales (est. 1923) is a story that has a supernatural element but does not fall into the category of traditional ghost story or Gothic tale, INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINITY STUDENT The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. This, then, isboth a story
PATRICIA PICCININI'S MYTHIC IMAGINATION Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap D.P. WATT AND THE SURREAL: "I SEE FICTION AS AN This year has been a fantastic year for D.P. Watt. First, his short story collection, An Emporium of Automata, was reprinted by Eibonvale Press; we printed one of the stories from this collection, “Erbach’s Emporium of Automata”. Also, Watt has a new collection this year from Egaeus Press called The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications and Watt’s fiction was collected in THE WEIRDNESS IN HOUSE OF LEAVES This is not for you - the novel’s dedication page House of Leaves (Pantheon Books, 2000) is a cluster of stories told more in their metatext than text, a book that took ten years to write and has given rise to another book (The Whalestoe Letters), an albumMUTATION PLANET
Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close, THE STRANGE CREATURES OF ARTIST O.L. SAMUELS O.L. Samuels is an artist who makes his strange and beautiful creatures “with the help of the spirit.” Each piece is carved very precisely based on how the spirit moves him and then he spends hours painstakingly decorating them. He has used tree trunks, branches and roots, layers of paint, glitter, sawdust and beads. Surprisingly he is GHOSTS, FEAR, AND PARALLEL WORLDS: THE SUPERNATURAL Good day universe. I DEMAND that Jean Ray’s works be fully realized into English forthwith. Other languages may also find favour. Now, without fail. Malpertuis alone is insufficient. And Universe, i will not pay the prices for the inert old books anthologizing his words. WEIRD FICTION REVIEWNONFICTIONFICTIONWEIRD THOUGHTSCONTACTBOOKSART WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
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A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2 Excerpt: Regression Pills. Today we are featuring the first of two excerpts from David Leo Rice’s A Room in Dodge City Volume 2. Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed Rice, a Brooklyn-based Weird author whose work has been published in The Collagist, Black Clock, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, The Rumpus, andelsewhere.
THE WEIRD: AN INTRODUCTION (Image by Jeremy Zerfoss) Buy The Weird compendium here A “weird tale,” as defined by H.P. Lovecraft in his nonfiction writings and given early sanctuary within the pages of magazines like Weird Tales (est. 1923) is a story that has a supernatural element but does not fall into the category of traditional ghost story or Gothic tale, INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINITY STUDENT The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. This, then, isboth a story
PATRICIA PICCININI'S MYTHIC IMAGINATION Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap D.P. WATT AND THE SURREAL: "I SEE FICTION AS AN This year has been a fantastic year for D.P. Watt. First, his short story collection, An Emporium of Automata, was reprinted by Eibonvale Press; we printed one of the stories from this collection, “Erbach’s Emporium of Automata”. Also, Watt has a new collection this year from Egaeus Press called The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications and Watt’s fiction was collected in THE WEIRDNESS IN HOUSE OF LEAVES This is not for you - the novel’s dedication page House of Leaves (Pantheon Books, 2000) is a cluster of stories told more in their metatext than text, a book that took ten years to write and has given rise to another book (The Whalestoe Letters), an albumMUTATION PLANET
Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close, THE STRANGE CREATURES OF ARTIST O.L. SAMUELS O.L. Samuels is an artist who makes his strange and beautiful creatures “with the help of the spirit.” Each piece is carved very precisely based on how the spirit moves him and then he spends hours painstakingly decorating them. He has used tree trunks, branches and roots, layers of paint, glitter, sawdust and beads. Surprisingly he is GHOSTS, FEAR, AND PARALLEL WORLDS: THE SUPERNATURAL Good day universe. I DEMAND that Jean Ray’s works be fully realized into English forthwith. Other languages may also find favour. Now, without fail. Malpertuis alone is insufficient. And Universe, i will not pay the prices for the inert old books anthologizing his words. THE WEIRD: AN INTRODUCTION (Image by Jeremy Zerfoss) Buy The Weird compendium here A “weird tale,” as defined by H.P. Lovecraft in his nonfiction writings and given early sanctuary within the pages of magazines like Weird Tales (est. 1923) is a story that has a supernatural element but does not fall into the category of traditional ghost story or Gothic tale,GIO CLAIRVAL
Weirdfictionreview.com’s 101 Weird Writers: #7 – Georg Heym: The Expressionistic Power of Heym and "The Dissection". by Gio Clairval. This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by 101 WEIRD WRITERS #25 -- BRUNO SCHULZ This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by the schedule of posts. Bruno Schulz (1892 — 1942) was a Polish writer of stories that share some affinity with the work of AlfredKubin,
REVIEW: "ICE" BY ANNA KAVAN WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
THE DISSECTION
Georg Heym (1887- 1912) was a German poet and playwright who also wrote one novel. Heym believed in the idea of the “demon city,” which symbolized his repudiation of romanticism in the midst of the rise of industrialism and repressive systems. Still, he lived a wild and passionate life, accompanied by depression and restlessness. In1910 he
SLITTEN GORGE
Conrad Williams is the author of seven novels (Head Injuries, London Revenant, The Unblemished, One, Decay Inevitable, Blonde on a Stick and Loss of Separation), four novellas (Nearly People, Game, The Scalding Rooms and Rain) and two collections of short stories (Use Once Then Destroy, Born With Teeth). He has previously won the AugustDerleth Award
101 WEIRD WRITERS #42 This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by the schedule of posts. Ramsey Campbell (1946 – ) is an award-winning horror-fiction author from Liverpool, England, mentored by Lovecraftprotégé August
MUTATION PLANET
Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close, EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: NEIL GAIMAN ON THE WEIRD Neil Gaiman is an iconic and hugely popular bestselling English writer living in the United States. He has written across multiple genres and media, including fiction, graphic novels, and film. Honors include the Hugo Award, Nebula award, and Locus award, along with the Newberry medal and the Carnegie Medal in Literature. THE BEAUTIFUL MACABRE: THE WORK OF BENEDETTA BONICHI If you are in New York City this summer, then make some time to see Head (July 10-Aug 11), an exhibit curated by Robert Curcio and D. Dominick Lombardi for Bosi Contemporary. Featuring the works of Christophe Avella-Bagur, Benedetta Bonichi, Richard Butler, Lori Field, Rieko Fujinami, Chambliss Giobbi, Ronald L. Hall, Nina Levy, D. Dominick Lombardi, Esther WEIRD FICTION REVIEWNONFICTIONFICTIONWEIRD THOUGHTSCONTACTBOOKSART WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
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A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2 Excerpt: Regression Pills. Today we are featuring the first of two excerpts from David Leo Rice’s A Room in Dodge City Volume 2. Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed Rice, a Brooklyn-based Weird author whose work has been published in The Collagist, Black Clock, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, The Rumpus, andelsewhere.
THE WEIRD: AN INTRODUCTION (Image by Jeremy Zerfoss) Buy The Weird compendium here A “weird tale,” as defined by H.P. Lovecraft in his nonfiction writings and given early sanctuary within the pages of magazines like Weird Tales (est. 1923) is a story that has a supernatural element but does not fall into the category of traditional ghost story or Gothic tale, INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINITY STUDENT The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. This, then, isboth a story
PATRICIA PICCININI'S MYTHIC IMAGINATION Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap D.P. WATT AND THE SURREAL: "I SEE FICTION AS AN This year has been a fantastic year for D.P. Watt. First, his short story collection, An Emporium of Automata, was reprinted by Eibonvale Press; we printed one of the stories from this collection, “Erbach’s Emporium of Automata”. Also, Watt has a new collection this year from Egaeus Press called The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications and Watt’s fiction was collected in THE WEIRDNESS IN HOUSE OF LEAVES This is not for you - the novel’s dedication page House of Leaves (Pantheon Books, 2000) is a cluster of stories told more in their metatext than text, a book that took ten years to write and has given rise to another book (The Whalestoe Letters), an albumMUTATION PLANET
Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close, THE STRANGE CREATURES OF ARTIST O.L. SAMUELS O.L. Samuels is an artist who makes his strange and beautiful creatures “with the help of the spirit.” Each piece is carved very precisely based on how the spirit moves him and then he spends hours painstakingly decorating them. He has used tree trunks, branches and roots, layers of paint, glitter, sawdust and beads. Surprisingly he is GHOSTS, FEAR, AND PARALLEL WORLDS: THE SUPERNATURAL Good day universe. I DEMAND that Jean Ray’s works be fully realized into English forthwith. Other languages may also find favour. Now, without fail. Malpertuis alone is insufficient. And Universe, i will not pay the prices for the inert old books anthologizing his words. WEIRD FICTION REVIEWNONFICTIONFICTIONWEIRD THOUGHTSCONTACTBOOKSART WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
FICTION ARCHIVES
A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2 Excerpt: Regression Pills. Today we are featuring the first of two excerpts from David Leo Rice’s A Room in Dodge City Volume 2. Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed Rice, a Brooklyn-based Weird author whose work has been published in The Collagist, Black Clock, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, The Rumpus, andelsewhere.
THE WEIRD: AN INTRODUCTION (Image by Jeremy Zerfoss) Buy The Weird compendium here A “weird tale,” as defined by H.P. Lovecraft in his nonfiction writings and given early sanctuary within the pages of magazines like Weird Tales (est. 1923) is a story that has a supernatural element but does not fall into the category of traditional ghost story or Gothic tale, INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINITY STUDENT The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. This, then, isboth a story
PATRICIA PICCININI'S MYTHIC IMAGINATION Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap D.P. WATT AND THE SURREAL: "I SEE FICTION AS AN This year has been a fantastic year for D.P. Watt. First, his short story collection, An Emporium of Automata, was reprinted by Eibonvale Press; we printed one of the stories from this collection, “Erbach’s Emporium of Automata”. Also, Watt has a new collection this year from Egaeus Press called The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications and Watt’s fiction was collected in THE WEIRDNESS IN HOUSE OF LEAVES This is not for you - the novel’s dedication page House of Leaves (Pantheon Books, 2000) is a cluster of stories told more in their metatext than text, a book that took ten years to write and has given rise to another book (The Whalestoe Letters), an albumMUTATION PLANET
Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close, THE STRANGE CREATURES OF ARTIST O.L. SAMUELS O.L. Samuels is an artist who makes his strange and beautiful creatures “with the help of the spirit.” Each piece is carved very precisely based on how the spirit moves him and then he spends hours painstakingly decorating them. He has used tree trunks, branches and roots, layers of paint, glitter, sawdust and beads. Surprisingly he is GHOSTS, FEAR, AND PARALLEL WORLDS: THE SUPERNATURAL Good day universe. I DEMAND that Jean Ray’s works be fully realized into English forthwith. Other languages may also find favour. Now, without fail. Malpertuis alone is insufficient. And Universe, i will not pay the prices for the inert old books anthologizing his words. THE WEIRD: AN INTRODUCTION (Image by Jeremy Zerfoss) Buy The Weird compendium here A “weird tale,” as defined by H.P. Lovecraft in his nonfiction writings and given early sanctuary within the pages of magazines like Weird Tales (est. 1923) is a story that has a supernatural element but does not fall into the category of traditional ghost story or Gothic tale,GIO CLAIRVAL
Weirdfictionreview.com’s 101 Weird Writers: #7 – Georg Heym: The Expressionistic Power of Heym and "The Dissection". by Gio Clairval. This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by 101 WEIRD WRITERS #25 -- BRUNO SCHULZ This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by the schedule of posts. Bruno Schulz (1892 — 1942) was a Polish writer of stories that share some affinity with the work of AlfredKubin,
REVIEW: "ICE" BY ANNA KAVAN WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
THE DISSECTION
Georg Heym (1887- 1912) was a German poet and playwright who also wrote one novel. Heym believed in the idea of the “demon city,” which symbolized his repudiation of romanticism in the midst of the rise of industrialism and repressive systems. Still, he lived a wild and passionate life, accompanied by depression and restlessness. In1910 he
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Conrad Williams is the author of seven novels (Head Injuries, London Revenant, The Unblemished, One, Decay Inevitable, Blonde on a Stick and Loss of Separation), four novellas (Nearly People, Game, The Scalding Rooms and Rain) and two collections of short stories (Use Once Then Destroy, Born With Teeth). He has previously won the AugustDerleth Award
101 WEIRD WRITERS #42 This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by the schedule of posts. Ramsey Campbell (1946 – ) is an award-winning horror-fiction author from Liverpool, England, mentored by Lovecraftprotégé August
MUTATION PLANET
Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close, EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: NEIL GAIMAN ON THE WEIRD Neil Gaiman is an iconic and hugely popular bestselling English writer living in the United States. He has written across multiple genres and media, including fiction, graphic novels, and film. Honors include the Hugo Award, Nebula award, and Locus award, along with the Newberry medal and the Carnegie Medal in Literature. THE BEAUTIFUL MACABRE: THE WORK OF BENEDETTA BONICHI If you are in New York City this summer, then make some time to see Head (July 10-Aug 11), an exhibit curated by Robert Curcio and D. Dominick Lombardi for Bosi Contemporary. Featuring the works of Christophe Avella-Bagur, Benedetta Bonichi, Richard Butler, Lori Field, Rieko Fujinami, Chambliss Giobbi, Ronald L. Hall, Nina Levy, D. Dominick Lombardi, Esther WEIRD FICTION REVIEWNONFICTIONFICTIONWEIRD THOUGHTSCONTACTBOOKSART WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
FICTION ARCHIVES
A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2 Excerpt: Regression Pills. Today we are featuring the first of two excerpts from David Leo Rice’s A Room in Dodge City Volume 2. Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed Rice, a Brooklyn-based Weird author whose work has been published in The Collagist, Black Clock, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, The Rumpus, andelsewhere.
GIO CLAIRVAL
Weirdfictionreview.com’s 101 Weird Writers: #7 – Georg Heym: The Expressionistic Power of Heym and "The Dissection". by Gio Clairval. This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined byTHE DISSECTION
Georg Heym (1887- 1912) was a German poet and playwright who also wrote one novel. Heym believed in the idea of the “demon city,” which symbolized his repudiation of romanticism in the midst of the rise of industrialism and repressive systems. Still, he lived a wild and passionate life, accompanied by depression and restlessness. In1910 he
INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINITY STUDENT The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. This, then, isboth a story
D.P. WATT AND THE SURREAL: "I SEE FICTION AS AN This year has been a fantastic year for D.P. Watt. First, his short story collection, An Emporium of Automata, was reprinted by Eibonvale Press; we printed one of the stories from this collection, “Erbach’s Emporium of Automata”. Also, Watt has a new collection this year from Egaeus Press called The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications and Watt’s fiction was collected inMUTATION PLANET
Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close, PATRICIA PICCININI'S MYTHIC IMAGINATION Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap THE SUPPER | WEIRD FICTION REVIEW The decision to translate “La Cena” was largely dictated by the preeminent place it occupies in Reyes’ corpus; “The Supper,” written when he was still a student and published in 1912, is a dreamlike story reminiscent in certain superficial ways to the work of some of the Continental decadents but, in its basic character,thoroughly
GHOSTS, FEAR, AND PARALLEL WORLDS: THE SUPERNATURAL Good day universe. I DEMAND that Jean Ray’s works be fully realized into English forthwith. Other languages may also find favour. Now, without fail. Malpertuis alone is insufficient. And Universe, i will not pay the prices for the inert old books anthologizing his words. WEIRD FICTION REVIEWNONFICTIONFICTIONWEIRD THOUGHTSCONTACTBOOKSART WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
FICTION ARCHIVES
A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2 Excerpt: Regression Pills. Today we are featuring the first of two excerpts from David Leo Rice’s A Room in Dodge City Volume 2. Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed Rice, a Brooklyn-based Weird author whose work has been published in The Collagist, Black Clock, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, The Rumpus, andelsewhere.
GIO CLAIRVAL
Weirdfictionreview.com’s 101 Weird Writers: #7 – Georg Heym: The Expressionistic Power of Heym and "The Dissection". by Gio Clairval. This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined byTHE DISSECTION
Georg Heym (1887- 1912) was a German poet and playwright who also wrote one novel. Heym believed in the idea of the “demon city,” which symbolized his repudiation of romanticism in the midst of the rise of industrialism and repressive systems. Still, he lived a wild and passionate life, accompanied by depression and restlessness. In1910 he
INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINITY STUDENT The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. This, then, isboth a story
D.P. WATT AND THE SURREAL: "I SEE FICTION AS AN This year has been a fantastic year for D.P. Watt. First, his short story collection, An Emporium of Automata, was reprinted by Eibonvale Press; we printed one of the stories from this collection, “Erbach’s Emporium of Automata”. Also, Watt has a new collection this year from Egaeus Press called The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications and Watt’s fiction was collected inMUTATION PLANET
Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the vast and brooding landscape stretched all around in endless darkness and gloom. Across this landscape the mountainous form of Dominus moved at speed, a massed, heavy shadow darker than the gloom itself, sullenly majestic, possessing total power. Above him the opaque sky, lurid and oppressively close, PATRICIA PICCININI'S MYTHIC IMAGINATION Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap THE SUPPER | WEIRD FICTION REVIEW The decision to translate “La Cena” was largely dictated by the preeminent place it occupies in Reyes’ corpus; “The Supper,” written when he was still a student and published in 1912, is a dreamlike story reminiscent in certain superficial ways to the work of some of the Continental decadents but, in its basic character,thoroughly
GHOSTS, FEAR, AND PARALLEL WORLDS: THE SUPERNATURAL Good day universe. I DEMAND that Jean Ray’s works be fully realized into English forthwith. Other languages may also find favour. Now, without fail. Malpertuis alone is insufficient. And Universe, i will not pay the prices for the inert old books anthologizing his words. THE WEIRD: AN INTRODUCTION (Image by Jeremy Zerfoss) Buy The Weird compendium here A “weird tale,” as defined by H.P. Lovecraft in his nonfiction writings and given early sanctuary within the pages of magazines like Weird Tales (est. 1923) is a story that has a supernatural element but does not fall into the category of traditional ghost story or Gothic tale,THE DISSECTION
Georg Heym (1887- 1912) was a German poet and playwright who also wrote one novel. Heym believed in the idea of the “demon city,” which symbolized his repudiation of romanticism in the midst of the rise of industrialism and repressive systems. Still, he lived a wild and passionate life, accompanied by depression and restlessness. In1910 he
THE WEIRDNESS IN HOUSE OF LEAVES This is not for you - the novel’s dedication page House of Leaves (Pantheon Books, 2000) is a cluster of stories told more in their metatext than text, a book that took ten years to write and has given rise to another book (The Whalestoe Letters), an albumTHE NIGHT SCHOOL
The following story was originally published in Grimscribe (1991) but can now be found in a new collection from Penguin Classics called Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe. Instructor Carniero was holding class once again. I discovered this fact on my return from a movie theater. It was late and I thought, “Why not take a short cut across the grounds of REVIEW: "ICE" BY ANNA KAVAN WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
M.R. JAMES AND THE QUANTUM VAMPIRE Many thanks to the author for kind permission to reprint this essay. It originally appeared in Collapse IV — please visit their website and consider a donation to their efforts if you enjoy this piece. — The editors The author, with skull and octopus, yesterday. 0. Prologue: the Tentacular Novum Taking for granted, as we do, its ubiquitous cultural debris, 101 WEIRD WRITERS #42 This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by the schedule of posts. Ramsey Campbell (1946 – ) is an award-winning horror-fiction author from Liverpool, England, mentored by Lovecraftprotégé August
THE STRANGE CREATURES OF ARTIST O.L. SAMUELS O.L. Samuels is an artist who makes his strange and beautiful creatures “with the help of the spirit.” Each piece is carved very precisely based on how the spirit moves him and then he spends hours painstakingly decorating them. He has used tree trunks, branches and roots, layers of paint, glitter, sawdust and beads. Surprisingly he is THE TRIUMPH OF MECHANICS Translated by Gio Clairval Karl Hans Strobl (1877 – 1946) was an Austrian author and editor of fantasy and weird fiction. His writing was strongly influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and Hanns Heinz Ewers, author of such weird horror classics as “The Spider.” After World War I, Strobl relocated to Germany, where he founded the magazine Der GATEWAYS TO THE WEIRD: AN INTERVIEW WITH MATTHEW M Matthew M. Bartlett is the author of The Stay-Awake Men & Other Unstable Entities, Gateways to Abomination, and other books of supernatural horror. His short stories have appeared in a variety of anthologies, including Lost Signals, A Breath from the Sky, Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 3, and the forthcoming Darker Companions, a tribute to Ramsey Campbell. WEIRD FICTION REVIEWNONFICTIONFICTIONWEIRD THOUGHTSCONTACTBOOKSARTWEIRD FICTION 2018WEIRD FICTION AUTHORSWEIRD FICTION STORIESWEIRD FICTION WEBSITEWEIRD FICTION SHORT STORY PUBLISHERSWHAT IS WEIRD FICTION WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
FICTION ARCHIVES
A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2 Excerpt: Regression Pills. Today we are featuring the first of two excerpts from David Leo Rice’s A Room in Dodge City Volume 2. Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed Rice, a Brooklyn-based Weird author whose work has been published in The Collagist, Black Clock, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, The Rumpus, andelsewhere.
THE DISSECTION
Georg Heym (1887- 1912) was a German poet and playwright who also wrote one novel. Heym believed in the idea of the “demon city,” which symbolized his repudiation of romanticism in the midst of the rise of industrialism and repressive systems. Still, he lived a wild and passionate life, accompanied by depression and restlessness. In1910 he
D.P. WATT AND THE SURREAL: "I SEE FICTION AS AN This year has been a fantastic year for D.P. Watt. First, his short story collection, An Emporium of Automata, was reprinted by Eibonvale Press; we printed one of the stories from this collection, “Erbach’s Emporium of Automata”. Also, Watt has a new collection this year from Egaeus Press called The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications and Watt’s fiction was collected in THE WEIRDNESS IN HOUSE OF LEAVES This is not for you - the novel’s dedication page House of Leaves (Pantheon Books, 2000) is a cluster of stories told more in their metatext than text, a book that took ten years to write and has given rise to another book (The Whalestoe Letters), an album INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINITY STUDENT The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. This, then, isboth a story
UNDERNEATH THE SKIN: JOHN CARPENTER'S "THE THING" AND YOUJOHN CARPENTER THE THING REMAKEJOHN CARPENTER THE THING SOUNDTRACKTHE THING 3 MOVIE SEQUELTHE THING FULL MOVIE 2011THE THING PREQUELTHE THINGREMAKE
Warning: This essay contains many spoilers. A dozen men are holed up in a research station in the unforgiving wastes of Antarctica, caught up in a relatively peaceful life of scientific inquiry, casual camaraderie and boredom. The bleak landscape outside dominates John Carpenter’s The Thing, through both the isolation it imposes as well as the ambient hostility PATRICIA PICCININI'S MYTHIC IMAGINATION Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap "THE DISASSEMBLER SEARCHED ON" BY DEMPOW TORISHIMA The following is an excerpt from Dempow Torishima’s 2018 book Sisyphean. It is the second chapter of the title story “Sisyphean.” Be sure to also check out our interview with author Dempow Torishima. Translation by Daniel Huddleston 1 When the on-site disassembler came to the synthorgan factory carrying his packing case, he stared for a moment GHOSTS, FEAR, AND PARALLEL WORLDS: THE SUPERNATURAL Good day universe. I DEMAND that Jean Ray’s works be fully realized into English forthwith. Other languages may also find favour. Now, without fail. Malpertuis alone is insufficient. And Universe, i will not pay the prices for the inert old books anthologizing his words. WEIRD FICTION REVIEWNONFICTIONFICTIONWEIRD THOUGHTSCONTACTBOOKSARTWEIRD FICTION 2018WEIRD FICTION AUTHORSWEIRD FICTION STORIESWEIRD FICTION WEBSITEWEIRD FICTION SHORT STORY PUBLISHERSWHAT IS WEIRD FICTION WeirdFictionReview.com is an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, from the classics to the next generation of weird writers and international weird. Reviews, interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction. This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi's print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does notshare staff.
FICTION ARCHIVES
Today we are featuring the first of two excerpts from David Leo Rice’s A Room in Dodge City Volume 2. Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed Rice, a Brooklyn-based Weird author whose work has been published in The Collagist, Black Clock, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.THE DISSECTION
Georg Heym (1887- 1912) was a German poet and playwright who also wrote one novel. Heym believed in the idea of the “demon city,” which symbolized his repudiation of romanticism in the midst of the rise of industrialism and repressive systems. Still, he lived a wild and passionate life, accompanied by depression and restlessness. In1910 he
D.P. WATT AND THE SURREAL: "I SEE FICTION AS AN This year has been a fantastic year for D.P. Watt. First, his short story collection, An Emporium of Automata, was reprinted by Eibonvale Press; we printed one of the stories from this collection, “Erbach’s Emporium of Automata”. Also, Watt has a new collection this year from Egaeus Press called The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications and Watt’s fiction was collected in THE WEIRDNESS IN HOUSE OF LEAVES This is not for you - the novel’s dedication page House of Leaves (Pantheon Books, 2000) is a cluster of stories told more in their metatext than text, a book that took ten years to write and has given rise to another book (The Whalestoe Letters), an album INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVINITY STUDENT The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. This, then, isboth a story
UNDERNEATH THE SKIN: JOHN CARPENTER'S "THE THING" AND YOUJOHN CARPENTER THE THING REMAKEJOHN CARPENTER THE THING SOUNDTRACKTHE THING 3 MOVIE SEQUELTHE THING FULL MOVIE 2011THE THING PREQUELTHE THINGREMAKE
Warning: This essay contains many spoilers. A dozen men are holed up in a research station in the unforgiving wastes of Antarctica, caught up in a relatively peaceful life of scientific inquiry, casual camaraderie and boredom. The bleak landscape outside dominates John Carpenter’s The Thing, through both the isolation it imposes as well as the ambient hostility PATRICIA PICCININI'S MYTHIC IMAGINATION Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap "THE DISASSEMBLER SEARCHED ON" BY DEMPOW TORISHIMA The following is an excerpt from Dempow Torishima’s 2018 book Sisyphean. It is the second chapter of the title story “Sisyphean.” Be sure to also check out our interview with author Dempow Torishima. Translation by Daniel Huddleston 1 When the on-site disassembler came to the synthorgan factory carrying his packing case, he stared for a moment GHOSTS, FEAR, AND PARALLEL WORLDS: THE SUPERNATURAL Good day universe. I DEMAND that Jean Ray’s works be fully realized into English forthwith. Other languages may also find favour. Now, without fail. Malpertuis alone is insufficient. And Universe, i will not pay the prices for the inert old books anthologizing his words. THE WEIRD: AN INTRODUCTION (Image by Jeremy Zerfoss) Buy The Weird compendium here A “weird tale,” as defined by H.P. Lovecraft in his nonfiction writings and given early sanctuary within the pages of magazines like Weird Tales (est. 1923) is a story that has a supernatural element but does not fall into the category of traditional ghost story or Gothic tale,THE DISSECTION
Georg Heym (1887- 1912) was a German poet and playwright who also wrote one novel. Heym believed in the idea of the “demon city,” which symbolized his repudiation of romanticism in the midst of the rise of industrialism and repressive systems. Still, he lived a wild and passionate life, accompanied by depression and restlessness. In1910 he
101 WEIRD WRITERS #25 -- BRUNO SCHULZ This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by the schedule of posts. Bruno Schulz (1892 — 1942) was a Polish writer of stories that share some affinity with the work of AlfredKubin,
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The following essay focused on “The Other Side of the Mountain” contains some mild spoilers. Visit Gio Clairval’s blog for more on The Weird and a variety of other topics. 101 WEIRD WRITERS #42 This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by the schedule of posts. Ramsey Campbell (1946 – ) is an award-winning horror-fiction author from Liverpool, England, mentored by Lovecraftprotégé August
PATRICIA PICCININI'S MYTHIC IMAGINATION Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap THE STRANGE CREATURES OF ARTIST O.L. SAMUELS O.L. Samuels is an artist who makes his strange and beautiful creatures “with the help of the spirit.” Each piece is carved very precisely based on how the spirit moves him and then he spends hours painstakingly decorating them. He has used tree trunks, branches and roots, layers of paint, glitter, sawdust and beads. Surprisingly he is THE SUPPER | WEIRD FICTION REVIEW Translated by Michael Cisco The name of Alfonso Reyes reoccurs throughout any discussion of Latin American literature. In his native Mexico, he is considered a major 20th century author, and more than one street has been named for him there. Roberto Bolano referred to him in the short list of those writers he included in his WEIRDFICTIONREVIEW.COM'S 101 WEIRD WRITERS: #2--AUGUSTO This is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. Every Tuesday and Thursday, Weirdfictionreview.com will feature a different writer. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by the schedule of posts. Augusto Monterroso (1921 — 2003) was a Guatemalan writer known for EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: NEIL GAIMAN ON THE WEIRD WeirdFictionReview.com caught up with Gaiman right before the 2011 World Fantasy Convention. Gaiman was a guest of honor at the con, and two stories from the Stories anthology he co-edited with Al Sarrantonio won World Fantasy Awards this year. WEIRD FICTION REVIEW YOUR NON-DENOMINATIONAL SOURCE FOR THE WEIRDMAIN MENU
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Mar 28, 2017 Introducing Two Weird Scifi Stories from Serge Brussoloby David Davis
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Mar 6, 2017 Erik Simon on Alfred Leman’s “Two Episodes”by David Davis
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Mar 4, 2015 The Rainbowby Kristen
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Jun 18, 2014 Lull byKelly Link
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Oct 22, 2013 Interview with Nathan Ballingrudby Adam Mills
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