New Weird

In the introduction to Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's anthology, The New Weird, New Weird is defined as "a type of urban, secondary-world fiction that subverts the romanticized ideas about place found in traditional fantasy, largely by choosing realistic, complex real-world models as the jumping off point for creation of settings that may combine elements of both science fiction and fantasy."

New Weird is largely inspired by the pulp horror serials of the past, such as those compiled in the magazine "Weird Tales," to which acclaimed horror author H.P. Lovecraft was a major contributor. New Weird, in
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If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (John Dies at the End, #4)
Hollow
Ambergris (Ambergris, #1-3)
A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1)
Gogmagog (The Chronicles of Ludwich #1)
Ludluda (The Chronicles of Ludwich, #2)
The Broken God (The Black Iron Legacy, #3)
Within Without
Creeping Jenny
The Shadow Saint (The Black Iron Legacy, #2)
The Navigating Fox
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
Kill Six Billion Demons, Book 4: King of Swords
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2)
The City & the City
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
Iron Council (New Crobuzon, #3)
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
Kraken
City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1)
Borne (Borne, #1)
Embassytown
The Etched City
The New Weird
Railsea
Finch (Ambergris, #3)

China Miéville
She was Remade she was (Remade scum), he knew it, he saw it, and still he felt incessantly what was inside him, and he felt a great scab of habit and prejudice split from him, part from his skin where his homeland had inscribed him deep. Heal me, he thought, not understanding what he thought, hoping for a reconfiguration. There was a caustic pain as he peeled off a clot of old life and exposed himself open and unsure to her, to new air. Breathing fast again. His feelings welled out and bled tog ...more
China Miéville, The Scar

[T]he new weird represents a productive experiment in fantasy fiction. The New Wave of the 1960s and 1970s arguably embodied science fiction's claim to literary 'seriousness.' This desire for seriousness is not snobbery, as sometimes suggested by folks who overemphasize the entertainment function of speculative fiction; it's about recognition of the vast possibilities within the field. ...more
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