Weird Fiction

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, both popular in the 1800s. As Lovecraft wrote in 1927, the weird tale “has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains.” Instead, it represents the pursuit of some indefinable and perhaps maddeningly unreachable understanding of the world beyond the mundane — a ‘certain atmosphere ...more

Shy Girl
Root Rot
Absolution (Southern Reach #4)
The Book of Elsewhere
Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)
If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (John Dies at the End, #4)
Hummingbird Salamander
The Works of Vermin
Brainwyrms
One's Company
Grandpappy
Lost in the Garden
Y/N
Hard Copy
The Strange
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
The King in Yellow
The City & the City
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
The Call of Cthulhu
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
Borne (Borne, #1)
The Fisherman
Kraken
The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2)
House of Leaves
The Willows
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
At the Mountains of Madness
All Systems Red by Martha WellsThe Stone Sky by N.K. JemisinThe Collapsing Empire by John ScalziNew York 2140 by Kim Stanley RobinsonProvenance by Ann Leckie
2018 Hugo Award Finalists
34 books — 33 voters
Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego by Mariana EnriquezNefando by Mónica OjedaThe Night by Rodrigo Blanco CalderónSantiago se va by José UrriolaAndor by Raquel Abend Van Dalen
Ficción Weird en Español
123 books — 9 voters

Piranesi by Susanna ClarkeArea X by Jeff VandermeerRoadside Picnic by Arkady StrugatskyHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki MurakamiThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Dreamscapes
109 books — 61 voters



Clark Ashton Smith
I, Satampra Zeiros of Uzuldaroum, shall write with my left hand, since I have no longer any other, the tale of everything that befell Tirouv Ompallios and myself in the shrine of the god Tsathoggua, which lies neglected by the worship of man in the jungle-taken suburbs of Commoriom, that long-deserted capital of the Hyperborean rulers. I shall write it with the violet juice of the suvana-palm, which turns to a blood-red rubric with the passage of years, on a strong vellum that is made from the s ...more
Clark Ashton Smith, The Tale of Satampra Zeiros

Clark Ashton Smith
For thin is the veil betwixt man and the godless deep. The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnameable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again. And the evil of the stars is not as the evil of earth.
Clark Ashton Smith, The Beast Of Averoigne

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