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Media</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_fantasy_anime" title="List of fantasy anime">Anime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantastic_art" title="Fantastic art">Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_and_fantasy_artists" title="List of science fiction and fantasy artists">Artists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_fantasy_authors" title="List of fantasy authors">Authors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_comics" title="Fantasy comics">Comics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_film" title="Fantasy film">Films</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_podcast" title="Fantasy podcast">Podcasts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_literature" title="Fantasy literature">Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_fiction_magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Fantasy fiction magazine">Magazines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Fantasy_anime_and_manga" title="Category:Fantasy anime and manga">Manga</a></li> <li><a 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Weird fiction either eschews or radically reinterprets traditional antagonists of <a href="/wiki/Supernatural_fiction" title="Supernatural fiction">supernatural</a> <a href="/wiki/Horror_fiction" title="Horror fiction">horror fiction</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Ghosts" class="mw-redirect" title="Ghosts">ghosts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vampires" class="mw-redirect" title="Vampires">vampires</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Werewolves" class="mw-redirect" title="Werewolves">werewolves</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jaw_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jaw-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Writers on the subject of weird fiction, such as <a href="/wiki/China_Mi%C3%A9ville" title="China Miéville">China Miéville</a>, sometimes use "the <a href="/wiki/Tentacle" title="Tentacle">tentacle</a>" to represent this type of writing. The tentacle is a limb-type absent from most of the monsters of European <a href="/wiki/Gothic_fiction" title="Gothic fiction">gothic fiction</a>, but often attached to the monstrous creatures created by weird fiction writers, such as <a href="/wiki/William_Hope_Hodgson" title="William Hope Hodgson">William Hope Hodgson</a>, <a href="/wiki/M._R._James" title="M. R. James">M. R. James</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clark_Ashton_Smith" title="Clark Ashton Smith">Clark Ashton Smith</a>, and <a href="/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft" title="H. P. Lovecraft">H. P. Lovecraft</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Weird fiction often attempts to inspire <a href="/wiki/Awe" title="Awe">awe</a> as well as fear in response to its fictional creations, causing commentators like Miéville to paraphrase <a href="/wiki/Goethe" class="mw-redirect" title="Goethe">Goethe</a> in saying that weird fiction evokes a sense of the <a href="/wiki/Numinous" title="Numinous">numinous</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although "weird fiction" has been chiefly used as a historical description for works through the 1930s, it experienced a resurgence in the 1980s and 1990s, under the label of <a href="/wiki/New_weird" title="New weird">New Weird</a>, which continues into the 21st century.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Definitions">Definitions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weird_fiction&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Definitions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/John_Clute" title="John Clute">John Clute</a> defines weird fiction as a term "used loosely to describe <a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">fantasy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Supernatural_fiction" title="Supernatural fiction">supernatural fiction</a> and <a href="/wiki/Horror_and_terror" title="Horror and terror">horror</a> tales embodying transgressive material".<sup id="cite_ref-eof_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eof-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> China Miéville defines it as "usually, roughly, conceived of as a rather breathless and generically slippery macabre fiction, a dark fantastic ('horror' plus 'fantasy') often featuring nontraditional alien monsters (thus plus 'science fiction')".<sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Discussing the "Old Weird Fiction" published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock says, "Old Weird fiction utilises elements of horror, science fiction and fantasy to showcase the impotence and insignificance of human beings within a much larger universe populated by often malign powers and forces that greatly exceed the human capacities to understand or control them."<sup id="cite_ref-jaw_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jaw-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Jeff_VanderMeer" title="Jeff VanderMeer">Jeff</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ann_VanderMeer" title="Ann VanderMeer">Ann VanderMeer</a> describe weird fiction not as a genre of fiction, but rather as a <a href="/wiki/Mode_(literature)" title="Mode (literature)">mode</a> of literature (i.e. a style or mood) usually appearing within the horror fiction genre.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weird_fiction&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MRJames1900.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/MRJames1900.jpg/170px-MRJames1900.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/MRJames1900.jpg/255px-MRJames1900.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/MRJames1900.jpg/340px-MRJames1900.jpg 2x" data-file-width="441" data-file-height="512" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/M._R._James" title="M. R. James">M. R. James</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1900</span></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:H._P._Lovecraft,_June_1934.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/H._P._Lovecraft%2C_June_1934.jpg/170px-H._P._Lovecraft%2C_June_1934.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/H._P._Lovecraft%2C_June_1934.jpg/255px-H._P._Lovecraft%2C_June_1934.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/H._P._Lovecraft%2C_June_1934.jpg/340px-H._P._Lovecraft%2C_June_1934.jpg 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="628" /></a><figcaption>H. P. Lovecraft, pictured in 1934</figcaption></figure> <p>Although the term "weird fiction" did not appear until the 20th century, <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a> is often regarded as the pioneering author of weird fiction. Poe was identified by Lovecraft as the first author of a distinct type of <a href="/wiki/Supernatural_fiction" title="Supernatural fiction">supernatural fiction</a> different from traditional Gothic literature, and later commentators on the term have also suggested Poe was the first "weird fiction" writer.<sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jaw_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jaw-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Sheridan_Le_Fanu" title="Sheridan Le Fanu">Sheridan Le Fanu</a> is also seen as an early writer working in the sub-genre.<sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Literary critics in the nineteenth century would sometimes use the term "weird" to describe supernatural fiction. For instance, the <i>Scottish Review</i> in an 1859 article praised Poe, <a href="/wiki/E._T._A._Hoffmann" title="E. T. A. Hoffmann">E. T. A. Hoffmann</a> and <a href="/wiki/Walter_Scott" title="Walter Scott">Walter Scott</a> by saying the three writers had the "power of weird imagination".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Irish magazine <i><a href="/wiki/The_Freeman%27s_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="The Freeman's Journal">The Freeman's Journal</a></i>, in an 1898 review of <i><a href="/wiki/Dracula" title="Dracula">Dracula</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Bram_Stoker" title="Bram Stoker">Bram Stoker</a>, described the novel as "wild and weird" and not Gothic.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Weinstock has suggested there was a period of "Old Weird Fiction" that lasted from the late 19th to early 20th centuries.<sup id="cite_ref-jaw_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jaw-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/S._T._Joshi" title="S. T. Joshi">S. T. Joshi</a> and Miéville have both argued that there was a period of "Haute Weird" between 1880 and 1940, when authors important to Weird Fiction, such as <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Machen" title="Arthur Machen">Arthur Machen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Clark_Ashton_Smith" title="Clark Ashton Smith">Clark Ashton Smith</a> were publishing their work.<sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jaw_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jaw-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the late nineteenth century, a number of British writers associated with the <a href="/wiki/Decadent_movement" title="Decadent movement">Decadent movement</a> wrote what was later described as weird fiction. These writers included Machen, <a href="/wiki/M._P._Shiel" title="M. P. Shiel">M. P. Shiel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eric_Stenbock" title="Eric Stenbock">Count Eric Stenbock</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Murray_Gilchrist" title="Robert Murray Gilchrist">R. Murray Gilchrist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other pioneering British weird fiction writers included <a href="/wiki/Algernon_Blackwood" title="Algernon Blackwood">Algernon Blackwood</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Joshi1_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joshi1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/William_Hope_Hodgson" title="William Hope Hodgson">William Hope Hodgson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Dunsany" title="Lord Dunsany">Lord Dunsany</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Arthur Machen,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/M._R._James" title="M. R. James">M. R. James</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The American <a href="/wiki/Pulp_magazine" title="Pulp magazine">pulp magazine</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Weird_Tales" title="Weird Tales">Weird Tales</a></i> published many such stories in the United States from March 1923 to September 1954. The magazine's editor <a href="/wiki/Farnsworth_Wright" title="Farnsworth Wright">Farnsworth Wright</a> often used the term "weird fiction" to describe the type of material that the magazine published.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The writers who wrote for the magazine <i><a href="/wiki/Weird_Tales" title="Weird Tales">Weird Tales</a></i> are thus closely identified with the weird fiction subgenre, especially <a href="/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft" title="H. P. Lovecraft">H. P. Lovecraft</a>, Clark Ashton Smith, <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Leiber" title="Fritz Leiber">Fritz Leiber</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bloch" title="Robert Bloch">Robert Bloch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other pulp magazines that published weird fiction included <i><a href="/wiki/Strange_Tales_(pulp_magazine)" title="Strange Tales (pulp magazine)">Strange Tales</a></i> (edited by <a href="/wiki/Harry_Bates_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Harry Bates (author)">Harry Bates</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/Unknown_(magazine)" title="Unknown (magazine)">Unknown Worlds</a></i> (edited by <a href="/wiki/John_W._Campbell" title="John W. Campbell">John W. Campbell</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>H. P. Lovecraft popularised the term "weird fiction" in his essays.<sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In "<a href="/wiki/Supernatural_Horror_in_Literature" title="Supernatural Horror in Literature">Supernatural Horror in Literature</a>", Lovecraft gives his definition of weird fiction: </p> <blockquote><p>The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain—a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/S._T._Joshi" title="S. T. Joshi">S. T. Joshi</a> describes several subdivisions of the weird tale: supernatural horror (or <a href="/wiki/Fantastique" title="Fantastique">fantastique</a>), the <a href="/wiki/Ghost_story" title="Ghost story">ghost story</a>, quasi <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">fantasy</a>, and ambiguous <a href="/wiki/Horror_fiction" title="Horror fiction">horror fiction</a> and argues that "the weird tale" is primarily the result of the philosophical and aesthetic predispositions of the authors associated with this type of fiction.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Joshi7-10_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joshi7-10-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although Lovecraft was one of the few early 20th-century writers to describe his work as "weird fiction",<sup id="cite_ref-Joshi1_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joshi1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the term has enjoyed a contemporary revival in <a href="/wiki/New_Weird" class="mw-redirect" title="New Weird">New Weird</a> fiction. Many horror writers have also situated themselves within the weird tradition, including <a href="/wiki/Clive_Barker" title="Clive Barker">Clive Barker</a>, who describes his fiction as <a href="/wiki/Fantastique" title="Fantastique">fantastique</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Barker_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barker-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Ramsey_Campbell" title="Ramsey Campbell">Ramsey Campbell</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Joshi231_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joshi231-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> whose early work was influenced by Lovecraft.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_authors">Notable authors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weird_fiction&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Notable authors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following notable authors have been described as writers of weird fiction. They are listed alphabetically by last name, and organised by the time period when they began to publish weird fiction. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Before_1940">Before 1940</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weird_fiction&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Before 1940"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 15em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ry%C5%ABnosuke_Akutagawa" title="Ryūnosuke Akutagawa">Ryūnosuke Akutagawa</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roberto_Arlt" title="Roberto Arlt">Roberto Arlt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._H._Barlow" title="R. H. Barlow">R. H. Barlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._F._Benson" title="E. F. Benson">E. F. Benson</a><sup id="cite_ref-Joshi231_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joshi231-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce" title="Ambrose Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Algernon_Blackwood" title="Algernon Blackwood">Algernon Blackwood</a><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bloch" title="Robert Bloch">Robert Bloch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Bowen" title="Marjorie Bowen">Marjorie Bowen</a><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Buchan" title="John Buchan">John Buchan</a><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Bulgakov" title="Mikhail Bulgakov">Mikhail Bulgakov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonora_Carrington" title="Leonora Carrington">Leonora Carrington</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_W._Chambers" title="Robert W. Chambers">Robert W. Chambers</a><sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Cline" title="Leonard Cline">Leonard Cline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Elizabeth_Counselman" title="Mary Elizabeth Counselman">Mary Elizabeth Counselman</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_de_la_Mare" title="Walter de la Mare">Walter de la Mare</a><sup id="cite_ref-Joshi231_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joshi231-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_Derleth" title="August Derleth">August Derleth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Dunsany" title="Lord Dunsany">Lord Dunsany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._R._Eddison" title="E. R. Eddison">E. R. Eddison</a><sup id="cite_ref-Joshi231_20-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joshi231-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Endore" title="Guy Endore">Guy Endore</a><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Murray_Gilchrist" title="Robert Murray Gilchrist">Robert Murray Gilchrist</a><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stefan_Grabi%C5%84ski" title="Stefan Grabiński">Stefan Grabiński</a><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Grin" title="Alexander Grin">Alexander Grin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Gogol" title="Nikolai Gogol">Nikolai Gogol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sakutar%C5%8D_Hagiwara" title="Sakutarō Hagiwara">Sakutarō Hagiwara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._P._Hartley" title="L. P. Hartley">L. P. Hartley</a><sup id="cite_ref-Joshi231_20-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joshi231-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._F._Harvey" title="W. F. Harvey">W. F. Harvey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne" title="Nathaniel Hawthorne">Nathaniel Hawthorne</a><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lafcadio_Hearn" title="Lafcadio Hearn">Lafcadio Hearn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georg_Heym" title="Georg Heym">Georg Heym</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Hope_Hodgson" title="William Hope Hodgson">William Hope Hodgson</a><sup id="cite_ref-Joshi231_20-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joshi231-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._T._A._Hoffmann" title="E. T. A. Hoffmann">E. T. A. Hoffmann</a><sup id="cite_ref-hadji_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hadji-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Howard" title="Robert E. Howard">Robert E. Howard</a><sup id="cite_ref-Joshi231_20-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joshi231-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Richard_Jacobi" title="Carl Richard Jacobi">Carl Jacobi</a><sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_James" title="Henry James">Henry James</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._R._James" title="M. R. James">M. R. James</a><sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franz_Kafka" title="Franz Kafka">Franz Kafka</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Francis_Keary" title="Charles Francis Keary">C. F. Keary</a><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Kubin" title="Alfred Kubin">Alfred Kubin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Kuttner" title="Henry Kuttner">Henry Kuttner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vernon_Lee" title="Vernon Lee">Vernon Lee</a><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Sheridan_Le_Fanu" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu">Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu</a><sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fritz_Leiber" title="Fritz Leiber">Fritz Leiber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Lindsay_(novelist)" title="David Lindsay (novelist)">David Lindsay</a><sup id="cite_ref-Mieville_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mieville-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Belknap_Long" title="Frank Belknap Long">Frank Belknap Long</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft" title="H. P. Lovecraft">H. P. Lovecraft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Machen" title="Arthur Machen">Arthur Machen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daphne_du_Maurier" title="Daphne du Maurier">Daphne du Maurier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Merrit" class="mw-redirect" title="Abraham Merrit">Abraham Merrit</a><sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gustav_Meyrink" title="Gustav Meyrink">Gustav Meyrink</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._L._Moore" title="C. L. Moore">C. L. Moore</a><sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fitz_James_O%27Brien" title="Fitz James O'Brien">Fitz James O'Brien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Onions" title="Oliver Onions">Oliver Onions</a><sup id="cite_ref-Joshi231_20-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joshi231-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Owen_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Owen (author)">Thomas Owen</a><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a><sup id="cite_ref-hadji_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hadji-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horacio_Quiroga" title="Horacio Quiroga">Horacio Quiroga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edogawa_Ranpo" title="Edogawa Ranpo">Edogawa Ranpo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Ray_(author)" title="Jean Ray (author)">Jean Ray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tod_Robbins" title="Tod Robbins">Tod Robbins</a><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Frank_Russell" title="Eric Frank Russell">Eric Frank Russell</a><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruno_Schulz" title="Bruno Schulz">Bruno Schulz</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcel_Schwob" title="Marcel Schwob">Marcel Schwob</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Scott" title="Walter Scott">Walter Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Shelley" title="Mary Shelley">Mary Shelley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._P._Shiel" title="M. P. Shiel">M. P. Shiel</a><sup id="cite_ref-Joshi231_20-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joshi231-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Milligan_Sloane_III" class="mw-redirect" title="William Milligan Sloane III">William Milligan Sloane III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clark_Ashton_Smith" title="Clark Ashton Smith">Clark Ashton Smith</a><sup id="cite_ref-Joshi231_20-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joshi231-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Stenbock" title="Eric Stenbock">Eric Stenbock</a><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gertrude_Barrows_Bennett" title="Gertrude Barrows Bennett">Francis Stevens</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bram_Stoker" title="Bram Stoker">Bram Stoker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon" title="Theodore Sturgeon">Theodore Sturgeon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleksey_Konstantinovich_Tolstoy" title="Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy">Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._H._Visiak" title="E. H. Visiak">E. H. Visiak</a><sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._Russell_Wakefield" title="H. Russell Wakefield">H. Russell Wakefield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Walpole" title="Hugh Walpole">Hugh Walpole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evangeline_Walton" title="Evangeline Walton">Evangeline Walton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Wandrei" title="Donald Wandrei">Donald Wandrei</a><sup id="cite_ref-eof_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eof-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Wandrei" title="Howard Wandrei">Howard Wandrei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a><sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Lucas_White" title="Edward Lucas White">Edward Lucas White</a><sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_S._Whitehead" title="Henry S. Whitehead">Henry S. Whitehead</a><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1940–1980"><span id="1940.E2.80.931980"></span>1940–1980</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weird_fiction&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1940–1980"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 15em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/K%C5%8Db%C5%8D_Abe" title="Kōbō Abe">Kōbō Abe</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Aickman" title="Robert Aickman">Robert Aickman</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._G._Ballard" title="J. G. Ballard">J. G. Ballard</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Beaumont" title="Charles Beaumont">Charles Beaumont</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olympe_Bhely-Quenum" title="Olympe Bhely-Quenum">Olympe Bhely-Quenum</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerome_Bixby" title="Jerome Bixby">Jerome Bixby</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges" title="Jorge Luis Borges">Jorge Luis Borges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Bradbury" title="Ray Bradbury">Ray Bradbury</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_S._Burroughs" title="William S. Burroughs">William S. Burroughs</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler" title="Octavia E. Butler">Octavia E. Butler</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramsey_Campbell" title="Ramsey Campbell">Ramsey Campbell</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angela_Carter" title="Angela Carter">Angela Carter</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julio_Cort%C3%A1zar" title="Julio Cortázar">Julio Cortázar</a><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_K._Dick" title="Philip K. Dick">Philip K. Dick</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_M._Disch" title="Thomas M. Disch">Thomas M. Disch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harlan_Ellison" title="Harlan Ellison">Harlan Ellison</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippe_Druillet" title="Philippe Druillet">Philippe Druillet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shirley_Jackson" title="Shirley Jackson">Shirley Jackson</a><sup id="cite_ref-Joshi231_20-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joshi231-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tanith_Lee" title="Tanith Lee">Tanith Lee</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_R._R._Martin" title="George R. R. Martin">George R. R. Martin</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson">Richard Matheson</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augusto_Monterroso" title="Augusto Monterroso">Augusto Monterroso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Moorcock" title="Michael Moorcock">Michael Moorcock</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haruki_Murakami" title="Haruki Murakami">Haruki Murakami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joyce_Carol_Oates" title="Joyce Carol Oates">Joyce Carol 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Sansom">William Sansom</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Seignolle" title="Claude Seignolle">Claude Seignolle</a><sup id="cite_ref-hadji_30-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hadji-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_St._Clair" title="Margaret St. Clair">Margaret St. Clair</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Straub" title="Peter Straub">Peter Straub</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Tiptree,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="James Tiptree, Jr.">James Tiptree, Jr.</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amos_Tutuola" title="Amos Tutuola">Amos Tutuola</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Vance" title="Jack Vance">Jack Vance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Edward_Wagner" title="Karl Edward Wagner">Karl Edward Wagner</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manly_Wade_Wellman" title="Manly Wade Wellman">Manly Wade Wellman</a></li> <li><a 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J. Bishop">K. J. Bishop</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_P._Blaylock" class="mw-redirect" title="James P. Blaylock">James P. Blaylock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giannina_Braschi" title="Giannina Braschi">Giannina Braschi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poppy_Z._Brite" title="Poppy Z. Brite">Poppy Z. Brite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Brockmeier" title="Kevin Brockmeier">Kevin Brockmeier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Burns_(cartoonist)" title="Charles Burns (cartoonist)">Charles Burns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Carroll" title="Jonathan Carroll">Jonathan Carroll</a><sup id="cite_ref-eof_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eof-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_F._Case" title="David F. Case">David F. Case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Chabon" title="Michael Chabon">Michael Chabon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Cisco" title="Michael Cisco">Michael Cisco</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_A._Collins" title="Nancy A. Collins">Nancy Collins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brendan_Connell" title="Brendan Connell">Brendan Connell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrey_Dashkov" title="Andrey Dashkov">Andrey Dashkov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Z._Danielewski" title="Mark Z. Danielewski">Mark Z. Danielewski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Junot_D%C3%ADaz" title="Junot Díaz">Junot Díaz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doug_Dorst" title="Doug Dorst">Doug Dorst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Dougherty" title="Michael Dougherty">Michael Dougherty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hal_Duncan" title="Hal Duncan">Hal Duncan</a><sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katherine_Dunn" title="Katherine Dunn">Katherine Dunn</a><sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Etchison" title="Dennis Etchison">Dennis Etchison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Evenson" title="Brian Evenson">Brian Evenson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Di_Filippo" title="Paul Di Filippo">Paul Di Filippo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Ford" title="Jeffrey Ford">Jeffrey Ford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Felix_Gilman" title="Felix Gilman">Felix Gilman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Giraud" title="Jean Giraud">Jean Giraud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Hand" title="Elizabeth Hand">Elizabeth Hand</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._John_Harrison" title="M. John Harrison">M. John Harrison</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Hodge" title="Brian Hodge">Brian Hodge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Hohlbein" title="Wolfgang Hohlbein">Wolfgang Hohlbein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Ings" title="Simon Ings">Simon Ings</a><sup id="cite_ref-tnw_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tnw-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Junji_Ito" title="Junji Ito">Junji Ito</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky" title="Alejandro Jodorowsky">Alejandro Jodorowsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Graham_Jones" title="Stephen Graham Jones">Stephen Graham Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caitl%C3%ADn_R._Kiernan" title="Caitlín R. Kiernan">Caitlín R. Kiernan</a><sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._E._D._Klein" title="T. E. D. Klein">T. E. D. Klein</a><sup id="cite_ref-Joshi231_20-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joshi231-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kathe_Koja" title="Kathe Koja">Kathe Koja</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leena_Krohn" title="Leena Krohn">Leena Krohn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Laidlaw" title="Marc Laidlaw">Marc Laidlaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jay_Lake" title="Jay Lake">Jay Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margo_Lanagan" title="Margo Lanagan">Margo Lanagan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Langan" title="John Langan">John Langan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_R._Lansdale" title="Joe R. Lansdale">Joe R. Lansdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deborah_Levy" title="Deborah Levy">Deborah Levy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Ligotti" title="Thomas Ligotti">Thomas Ligotti</a><sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelly_Link" title="Kelly Link">Kelly Link</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Lumley" title="Brian Lumley">Brian Lumley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carmen_Maria_Machado" title="Carmen Maria Machado">Carmen Maria Machado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilya_Masodov" title="Ilya Masodov">Ilya Masodov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_McDowell_(author)" title="Michael McDowell (author)">Michael McDowell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Michel" title="Lincoln Michel">Lincoln Michel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/China_Mi%C3%A9ville" title="China Miéville">China Miéville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Monette" title="Sarah Monette">Sarah Monette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grant_Morrison" title="Grant Morrison">Grant Morrison</a><sup id="cite_ref-cm_1-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reza_Negarestani" title="Reza Negarestani">Reza Negarestani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Nicolay" title="Scott Nicolay">Scott Nicolay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Noon" title="Jeff Noon">Jeff Noon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Ohle" title="David Ohle">David Ohle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Okri" title="Ben Okri">Ben Okri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otsuichi" title="Otsuichi">Otsuichi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Oyeyemi" title="Helen Oyeyemi">Helen Oyeyemi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason_Pargin" title="Jason Pargin">Jason Pargin (David Wong)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Peeters" title="Benoît Peeters">Benoît Peeters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cameron_Pierce" title="Cameron Pierce">Cameron Pierce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rachel_Pollack" title="Rachel Pollack">Rachel Pollack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Powers" title="Tim Powers">Tim Powers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._H._Pugmire" title="W. H. Pugmire">W. H. Pugmire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_S._Pulver,_Sr." class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.">Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cat_Rambo" title="Cat Rambo">Cat Rambo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alistair_Rennie" title="Alistair Rennie">Alistair Rennie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matt_Ruff" title="Matt Ruff">Matt Ruff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sofia_Samatar" title="Sofia Samatar">Sofia Samatar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrzej_Sarwa" title="Andrzej Sarwa">Andrzej Sarwa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Schuiten" title="François Schuiten">François Schuiten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/JD_Scott" title="JD Scott">JD Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucius_Shepard" title="Lucius Shepard">Lucius Shepard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Browning_Spencer" title="William Browning Spencer">William Browning Spencer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Strantzas" title="Simon Strantzas">Simon Strantzas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Stross" title="Charles Stross">Charles Stross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oh_Seong-dae" title="Oh Seong-dae">Oh Seong-dae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._L._Stine" title="R. L. Stine">R. L. Stine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steph_Swainston" title="Steph Swainston">Steph Swainston</a><sup id="cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Thomas_(writer)" title="Jeffrey Thomas (writer)">Jeffrey Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Thomas_(author)" title="Richard Thomas (author)">Richard Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karin_Tidbeck" title="Karin Tidbeck">Karin Tidbeck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lisa_Tuttle" title="Lisa Tuttle">Lisa Tuttle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Utley" title="Steven Utley">Steven Utley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_VanderMeer" title="Jeff VanderMeer">Jeff VanderMeer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aliya_Whiteley" title="Aliya Whiteley">Aliya Whiteley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liz_Williams" title="Liz Williams">Liz Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chet_Williamson" title="Chet Williamson">Chet Williamson</a><sup id="cite_ref-eof_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eof-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F._Paul_Wilson" title="F. Paul Wilson">F. Paul Wilson</a><sup id="cite_ref-eof_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eof-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Howard_Wolf" title="Christopher Howard Wolf">Christopher Howard Wolf</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_Weird">New Weird</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weird_fiction&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: New Weird"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/New_weird" title="New weird">New weird</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Ann_VanderMeer" title="Ann VanderMeer">Ann</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jeff_VanderMeer" title="Jeff VanderMeer">Jeff VanderMeer</a> and <a href="/wiki/China_Mi%C3%A9ville" title="China Miéville">China Miéville</a> have suggested that weird fiction has seen a recent resurgence, a phenomenon they term the <a href="/wiki/New_Weird" class="mw-redirect" title="New Weird">New Weird</a>. Tales which fit this category, as well as extensive discussion of the phenomenon, appear in the anthology <i>The New Weird</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-tnw_41-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tnw-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weird_fiction&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cosmic_horror" class="mw-redirect" title="Cosmic horror">Cosmic horror</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos" title="Cthulhu Mythos">Cthulhu Mythos</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dark_fantasy" title="Dark fantasy">Dark fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_genres" title="List of genres">List of genres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lovecraftian_horror" title="Lovecraftian horror">Lovecraftian horror</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occult_detective" class="mw-redirect" title="Occult detective">Occult detective</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surrealism" title="Surrealism">Surrealism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_fantasy" title="Urban fantasy">Urban fantasy</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weird_fiction&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-cm-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-13"><sup><i><b>n</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-14"><sup><i><b>o</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-15"><sup><i><b>p</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-16"><sup><i><b>q</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-17"><sup><i><b>r</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-18"><sup><i><b>s</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-19"><sup><i><b>t</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-20"><sup><i><b>u</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-21"><sup><i><b>v</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cm_1-22"><sup><i><b>w</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">China Miéville, "Weird Fiction", in Bould, Mark et al., <i>The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction</i>. New York: Routledge, 2009, p. 510–516. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-415-45378-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-415-45378-X">0-415-45378-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-jaw-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-jaw_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-jaw_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-jaw_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-jaw_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-jaw_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, "The New Weird", in Ken Gelder, <i>New Directions in Popular Fiction: genre, reproduction, distribution</i>. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 177–200. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781137523457" title="Special:BookSources/9781137523457">9781137523457</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-weirdfictionintro-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-13"><sup><i><b>n</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-14"><sup><i><b>o</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-15"><sup><i><b>p</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-16"><sup><i><b>q</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-17"><sup><i><b>r</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-18"><sup><i><b>s</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-19"><sup><i><b>t</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-20"><sup><i><b>u</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-21"><sup><i><b>v</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-22"><sup><i><b>w</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-23"><sup><i><b>x</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-24"><sup><i><b>y</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-25"><sup><i><b>z</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-26"><sup><i><b>aa</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-27"><sup><i><b>ab</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-28"><sup><i><b>ac</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-29"><sup><i><b>ad</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-30"><sup><i><b>ae</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-31"><sup><i><b>af</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-32"><sup><i><b>ag</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-33"><sup><i><b>ah</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-34"><sup><i><b>ai</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-35"><sup><i><b>aj</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-36"><sup><i><b>ak</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-37"><sup><i><b>al</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-38"><sup><i><b>am</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-39"><sup><i><b>an</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-40"><sup><i><b>ao</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-41"><sup><i><b>ap</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-weirdfictionintro_3-42"><sup><i><b>aq</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVanderMeer2012" class="citation web cs1">VanderMeer, Ann and Jeff (6 May 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/05/the-weird-an-introduction/">"The Weird: An Introduction"</a>. <i>Weird Fiction Review</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140714163637/http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/05/the-weird-an-introduction/">Archived</a> from the original on 14 July 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 June</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Weird+Fiction+Review&rft.atitle=The+Weird%3A+An+Introduction&rft.date=2012-05-06&rft.aulast=VanderMeer&rft.aufirst=Ann+and+Jeff&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fweirdfictionreview.com%2F2012%2F05%2Fthe-weird-an-introduction%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWeird+fiction" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNunnally2017" class="citation web cs1">Nunnally, Mya (19 October 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bookriot.com/new-weird-genre/">"A Beginner's Guide to the New Weird Genre"</a>. <i>BOOK RIOT</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">11 November</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=BOOK+RIOT&rft.atitle=A+Beginner%27s+Guide+to+the+New+Weird+Genre&rft.date=2017-10-19&rft.aulast=Nunnally&rft.aufirst=Mya&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbookriot.com%2Fnew-weird-genre%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWeird+fiction" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-eof-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-eof_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-eof_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-eof_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-eof_5-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-eof_5-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-eof_5-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/John_Clute" title="John Clute">John Clute</a>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sf-encyclopedia.uk/fe.php?nm=weird_fiction">Weird Fiction</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180930034021/http://sf-encyclopedia.uk/fe.php?nm=weird_fiction">Archived</a> 2018-09-30 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>", in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Encyclopedia_of_Fantasy" title="The Encyclopedia of Fantasy">The Encyclopedia of Fantasy</a></i>, 1997. Retrieved 29 September 2018.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">James Machin, <i>Weird Fiction in Britain, 1880-1939</i>, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, p. 4, 12-14. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9783319905266" title="Special:BookSources/9783319905266">9783319905266</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Machin, p. 22</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Machin, p. 14</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Machin, p. 78</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Joshi1-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Joshi1_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Joshi1_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJoshi1990" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/S._T._Joshi" title="S. T. Joshi">Joshi, S. T.</a> (1990). <i>The Weird Tale</i>. University of Texas Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-292-79050-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-292-79050-3"><bdi>0-292-79050-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Weird+Tale&rft.pub=University+of+Texas+Press&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=0-292-79050-3&rft.aulast=Joshi&rft.aufirst=S.+T.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWeird+fiction" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Joshi 1990, p. 42</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Joshi 1990, p. 12</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Joshi 1990, p. 133</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Machin, p. 222-5</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Bates had an affinity for weird fiction, but <i>Strange Tales</i> didn't go in for Lovecraft's brooding, wordy atmospherics." Ed Hulse, <i>The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction</i>. Murania Press, Morris Plains, New Jersey, 2018, pp. 130–131. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1726443463" title="Special:BookSources/978-1726443463">978-1726443463</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Without a doubt, the major event in weird fiction in 1939 was the premiere of <i>Unknown</i> (later retitled <i>Unknown Worlds</i>)".Robert E. Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Martin Harry Greenberg, <i>Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 great fantasy & horror stories from the weird fiction pulps</i> Bonanza Books, 1990, p. xvii. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780517693315" title="Special:BookSources/9780517693315">9780517693315</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJoshi2003" class="citation book cs1">Joshi, S. T. (January 2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ubE5ylK0GTgC&q=wordview">"Introduction"</a>. <i>The Weird Tale</i>. Wildside Press LLC. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780809531226" title="Special:BookSources/9780809531226"><bdi>9780809531226</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Introduction&rft.btitle=The+Weird+Tale&rft.pub=Wildside+Press+LLC&rft.date=2003-01&rft.isbn=9780809531226&rft.aulast=Joshi&rft.aufirst=S.+T.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DubE5ylK0GTgC%26q%3Dwordview&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWeird+fiction" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Joshi7-10-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Joshi7-10_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Joshi 1990, pp. 7–10</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Barker-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Barker_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWinter2002" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Douglas_E._Winter" title="Douglas E. Winter">Winter, Douglas E.</a> (2002). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/clivebarker00doug"><i>Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic: The Authorized Biography</i></a></span>. HarperCollins. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-621392-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-06-621392-4"><bdi>0-06-621392-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Clive+Barker%3A+The+Dark+Fantastic%3A+The+Authorized+Biography&rft.pub=HarperCollins&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=0-06-621392-4&rft.aulast=Winter&rft.aufirst=Douglas+E.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fclivebarker00doug&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWeird+fiction" class="Z3988"></span>, pp. 217-18</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Joshi231-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Joshi231_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Joshi231_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Joshi231_20-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Joshi231_20-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Joshi231_20-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Joshi231_20-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Joshi231_20-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Joshi231_20-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Joshi231_20-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Joshi231_20-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Joshi231_20-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Joshi231_20-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Joshi 1990, p. 231</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Campbell, Ramsey. "Chasing the Unknown", introduction to <i>Cold Print</i> (1993), pp. 11–13. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8125-1660-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-8125-1660-5">0-8125-1660-5</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Joshi 1990, p. 143</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Joshi 1990, p. 87</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">""Marjorie Bowen" was the pseudonym of Gabrielle M.V. Campbell Long, and she wrote extensively, using from six to ten pen names throughout her career, primarily in mainstream fiction. Yet her weird fiction ranks favorably with such distaff portrayers of the supernatural as Mary Wilkins-Freeman, Edith Wharton and Lady Cynthia Asquith." Sheldon Jaffery, <i>The Arkham House Companion</i>, San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo Press, 1990, p. 117. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781557420046" title="Special:BookSources/9781557420046">9781557420046</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Machin 2018, pp. 163–219</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jerry L. Ball, "Guy Endore's The Werewolf of Paris: The Definitive Werewolf Novel?" <i>Studies in Weird Fiction</i>, no. 17, summer 1995, pp. 2–12</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Machin 2018, pp. 99–101</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Timothy Jarvis, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://weirdfictionreview.com/2016/12/101-weird-writers-45-stefan-grabinski/">101 Weird Writers #45 — Stefan Grabiński</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180528133949/http://weirdfictionreview.com/2016/12/101-weird-writers-45-stefan-grabinski/">Archived</a> 2018-05-28 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></i>, <i>Weird Fiction Review</i>, December 20, 2016. Retrieved September 1 2018.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"<i>Twice-Told Tales</i>...and <i>Mosses From an Old Manse</i> (1846; 23s) include most of Hawthorne's weird fiction. " <a href="/wiki/Mike_Ashley_(writer)" title="Mike Ashley (writer)">Michael Ashley</a>, <i>Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction</i>. Taplinger Publishing Company, 1978, p. 90. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780800882754" title="Special:BookSources/9780800882754">9780800882754</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-hadji-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-hadji_30-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hadji_30-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hadji_30-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">"13 Supreme Masters of Weird Fiction" by R.S Hadji.<i><a href="/wiki/Twilight_Zone_literature" title="Twilight Zone literature">Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine</a></i>, May–June 1983, p. 84</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"C. F. Keary, "Twixt Dog and Wolf"... [is] a collection of two novellas, one short story, and ten "phantasies," all of which are literary weird fiction of a high order". <a href="/wiki/Douglas_A._Anderson" title="Douglas A. Anderson">Douglas A. Anderson</a>, Late Reviews. Nodens Books, Marcellus, MI, 2018, p. 89. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781987512564" title="Special:BookSources/9781987512564">9781987512564</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Vernon Lee (1856-1935) was the pseudonym of lesbian Violet Paget, who was well known for her literary output, a substantial portion of which was considered either "weird fiction" or ghost stories." Eric Garber, & Lyn Paleo <i>Uranian worlds: a guide to alternative sexuality in science fiction, fantasy, and horror</i> G.K. Hall, 1990, p. 125. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780816118328" title="Special:BookSources/9780816118328">9780816118328</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Mieville-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Mieville_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGordon2003" class="citation journal cs1">Gordon, Joan (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/mievilleinterview.htm">"Reveling in Genre: An Interview with China Miéville"</a>. <i>Science Fiction Studies</i>. <b>30</b> (91). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190715091050/https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/mievilleinterview.htm">Archived</a> from the original on 15 July 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 February</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Science+Fiction+Studies&rft.atitle=Reveling+in+Genre%3A+An+Interview+with+China+Mi%C3%A9ville&rft.volume=30&rft.issue=91&rft.date=2003&rft.aulast=Gordon&rft.aufirst=Joan&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.depauw.edu%2Fsfs%2Finterviews%2Fmievilleinterview.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWeird+fiction" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGauvin2011" class="citation web cs1">Gauvin, Edward (November 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://weirdfictionreview.com/2011/11/kavar-the-rat-thomas-owen/">"Kavar the Rat"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140714153535/http://weirdfictionreview.com/2011/11/kavar-the-rat-thomas-owen/">Archived</a> from the original on 14 July 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 June</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Kavar+the+Rat&rft.date=2011-11&rft.aulast=Gauvin&rft.aufirst=Edward&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fweirdfictionreview.com%2F2011%2F11%2Fkavar-the-rat-thomas-owen%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWeird+fiction" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Tod Robbins (Clarence Aaron Robbins, 1888-1949) specialized in weird fiction throughout his lengthy writing career." Christie, Gene. <i>The People of the Pit, and other early horrors from the Munsey Pulps</i>. Normal, IL : Black Dog Books, 2010. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781928619963" title="Special:BookSources/9781928619963">9781928619963</a> (p. 201).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Although Eric Frank Russell wrote a relatively small number of novels, he published several major collections...More recently, Midnight House collected much of his best horror and weird fiction in <i>Darker Tides</i> in 2006". O'Neill, John. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.blackgate.com/2014/04/13/vintage-treasures-sentinels-of-space-by-eric-frank-russell-the-ultimate-invader/">Vintage Treasures: Sentinels of Space by Eric Frank Russell / The Ultimate Invader edited by Donald Wollheim</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Black_Gate_(magazine)" title="Black Gate (magazine)">Black Gate</a></i>, 13 April 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Machin 2018, pp. 101–114</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"The sudden and unexpected death on June 11 (1936) of Robert Ervin Howard, author of fantastic tales of incomparable vividness, forms weird fiction's worst loss since the passing of Henry S. Whitehead four years ago". H. P. Lovecraft, "Robert Ervin Howard: A Memorial" (1936). Reprinted in Leon Nielsen,<i>Robert E. Howard: A Collector’s Descriptive Bibliography of American and British Hardcover, Paperback, Magazine, Special and Amateur Editions, with a Biography</i>. McFarland, 2010, p. 39. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781476604244" title="Special:BookSources/9781476604244">9781476604244</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNolen" class="citation web cs1">Nolen, Larry. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130413134744/http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/01/weirdfictionreview-coms-101-weird-writers-3-julio-cortazar/">"Weirdfictionreview.com's 101 Weird Writers: #3 – Julio Cortázar"</a>. <i>Weird Fiction Review</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/01/weirdfictionreview-coms-101-weird-writers-3-julio-cortazar/">the original</a> on 13 April 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 September</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Weird+Fiction+Review&rft.atitle=Weirdfictionreview.com%27s+101+Weird+Writers%3A+%233+%E2%80%93+Julio+Cort%C3%A1zar&rft.aulast=Nolen&rft.aufirst=Larry&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fweirdfictionreview.com%2F2012%2F01%2Fweirdfictionreview-coms-101-weird-writers-3-julio-cortazar%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWeird+fiction" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"...the cartoonist Gahan Wilson, whose thirty-odd- year sideline as an occasional writer of weird fiction has now heaped up enough oddments to fill a book." <a href="/wiki/Brian_Stableford" title="Brian Stableford">Brian Stableford</a>, <i>News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews</i>. Rockville, Maryland: The Borgo Press, p. 131. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781434403360" title="Special:BookSources/9781434403360">9781434403360</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-tnw-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-tnw_41-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-tnw_41-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-tnw_41-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVanderMeerJeff_VanderMeer2008" class="citation book cs1">VanderMeer, Ann; Jeff VanderMeer (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=eR7uAAAAMAAJ"><i>The New Weird</i></a>. Tachyon. pp. xvi. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-892391-55-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-892391-55-1"><bdi>978-1-892391-55-1</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140627174059/http://books.google.com/books?id=eR7uAAAAMAAJ">Archived</a> from the original on 27 June 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 November</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+New+Weird&rft.pages=xvi&rft.pub=Tachyon&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-1-892391-55-1&rft.aulast=VanderMeer&rft.aufirst=Ann&rft.au=Jeff+VanderMeer&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DeR7uAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWeird+fiction" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weird_fiction&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJoshi1990" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/S._T._Joshi" title="S. T. Joshi">Joshi, S. T.</a> (1990). <i>The Weird Tale</i>. University of Texas Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-292-79050-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-292-79050-3"><bdi>0-292-79050-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Weird+Tale&rft.pub=University+of+Texas+Press&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=0-292-79050-3&rft.aulast=Joshi&rft.aufirst=S.+T.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWeird+fiction" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weird_fiction&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Notes_on_Writing_Weird_Fiction" class="extiw" title="s:Notes on Writing Weird Fiction">H. P. Lovecraft, "Notes on Writing Weird Fiction"</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://weirdtalesmagazine.com/">WeirdTalesMagazine.com</a>, the original magazine of weird fiction</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://weirdfictionreview.com/">WeirdFictionReview.com</a>, a website by <a href="/wiki/Ann_VanderMeer" title="Ann VanderMeer">Ann</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jeff_VanderMeer" title="Jeff VanderMeer">Jeff VanderMeer</a> dedicated to the genre</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://stayweird.com/">Weird Fun Facts</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output 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style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_film" title="Fantasy film">Film</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fantasy_television" title="Fantasy television">television</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_fantasy_anime" title="List of fantasy anime">Anime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_fantasy_films" title="Lists of fantasy films">Films</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_fantasy_films" title="List of highest-grossing fantasy films">highest-grossing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_sword_and_sorcery_films" title="List of sword and sorcery films">S&S</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_fantasy_television_programs" title="List of fantasy television programs">Television programs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><a 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<ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Fantastic_(magazine)" title="Fantastic (magazine)">Fantastic</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fantastic_Adventures" title="Fantastic Adventures">Fantastic Adventures</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Locus_(magazine)" title="Locus (magazine)">Locus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_%26_Science_Fiction" title="The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction">The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Science_Fantasy_(magazine)" title="Science Fantasy (magazine)">Science Fantasy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Unknown_(magazine)" title="Unknown (magazine)">Unknown</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Weird_Tales" title="Weird Tales">Weird Tales</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons" title="Dungeons & Dragons">Dungeons & Dragons</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F%C3%A9erie" title="Féerie">Féeries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_podcast" title="Fantasy podcast">Podcasts</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Awards</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Balrog_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Balrog Award">Balrog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Fantasy_Award" title="British Fantasy Award">British Fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crawford_Award" title="Crawford Award">Crawford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragon_Awards" title="Dragon Awards">Dragon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gandalf_Award" title="Gandalf Award">Gandalf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Gemmell_Awards_for_Fantasy" title="David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy">Gemmell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Fantasy_Award" title="International Fantasy Award">International Fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan_Fantasy_Novel_Award" title="Japan Fantasy Novel Award">Japan Fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locus_Award" title="Locus Award">Locus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s_d%27Or" title="Méliès d'Or">Méliès d'Or</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mythopoeic_Awards" title="Mythopoeic Awards">Mythopoeic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saturn_Awards" title="Saturn Awards">Saturn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T%C3%A4htifantasia_Award" title="Tähtifantasia Award">Tähtifantasia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award" title="World Fantasy Award">World Fantasy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_fandom" title="Fantasy fandom">Fandom</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fantastic_art" title="Fantastic art">Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fanspeak" title="Fanspeak">Fanspeak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Filk_music" title="Filk music">Filk music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Potter_fandom" title="Harry Potter fandom"><i>Harry Potter</i> fandom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Inklings" class="mw-redirect" title="The Inklings">The Inklings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lovecraft_fandom" title="Lovecraft fandom">Lovecraft fandom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mythopoeic_Society" title="Mythopoeic Society">Mythopoeic Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien_fandom" title="Tolkien fandom">Tolkien fandom</a></li> <li><a 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R. R. Tolkien">Works inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Convention" title="World Fantasy Convention">World Fantasy Convention</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_trope" title="Fantasy trope">Tropes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Legendary_creature" title="Legendary creature">Creatures</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angel" title="Angel">Angels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demon" title="Demon">Demons</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Devil" title="Devil">Devils</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghoul" 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title="Evocation">Evocation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Incantation" title="Incantation">Incantation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Necromancy" title="Necromancy">Necromancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Runic_magic" title="Runic magic">Runecraft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shamanism" title="Shamanism">Shamanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shapeshifting" title="Shapeshifting">Shapeshifting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thaumaturgy" title="Thaumaturgy">Thaumaturgy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theurgy" title="Theurgy">Theurgy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Witchcraft" title="Witchcraft">Witchcraft</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_races" class="mw-redirect" title="Fantasy races">Fantasy races</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Centaur" title="Centaur">Centaurs</a></li> <li><a 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title="Supernatural fiction">Supernatural</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thriller_(genre)" title="Thriller (genre)">Thriller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tokusatsu" title="Tokusatsu">Tokusatsu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_legend" title="Urban legend">Urban legend</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Guignol" title="Grand Guignol">Grand Guignol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_horror_fiction_writers" title="List of horror fiction writers">Writers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horror_convention" title="Horror convention">Conventions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_themes_in_horror_fiction" title="LGBTQ themes in horror fiction">LGBTQ themes</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_horror_television_series_with_LGBT_characters" title="List of horror television series with LGBT 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