#weirdfiction — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #weirdfiction, aggregated by home.social.
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Une nouvelle maison d'édition d'imaginaire : Hécate !
On vous donne les premières infos sur Actusf...
Et ils ont un premier appel à textes !
#sciencefiction #dystopie #Horreur #gothique #weirdfiction #Darkfantasy #Romancegothique
https://www.actusf.com/detail-d-un-article/une-nouvelle-maison-d%C3%A9dition-dimaginaire-h%C3%A9cate
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RE: https://bookstodon.com/@astral/117107301808942645
Our sibling magazine @astral is starting up again after a lengthy hiatus. Fans of alien-oriented science-fiction should check them out!
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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we continue our Lost Tales series with "Blackie" (1916) by Edwin Baird, the first editor of WEIRD TALES, and literary cousin to Lovecraft's cat in "The Rats in the Walls."
https://deepcuts.blog/2026/08/15/lost-tale-blackie-1916-by-edwin-baird/
#1916 #fiction #weirdtales #weirdlit #weirdfiction #lovecraft
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Panels I went to at #NecronomiconPVD:
The Daphne du Maurier panel discussed The Birds as you'd expect, but I didn't realize that she also wrote Don't Look Now. Panelists also discussed a bunch of her stories that were weird fiction, such as The Blue Lenses (a woman regains sight after an eye operation and now sees people as having animal heads) or The Pool (a small child finds a pool in the forest that seems to lead to another world).
The Arthur Machen panel gave a well-organized account of his long life and career, focusing on the well-known books (The Great God Pan; The White People) but also the flap over his story The Bowmen and his late-career work.
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I'm in Providence, Rhode Island, for the Necronomicon weird fiction / horror convention. The bulk of the programming starts tomorrow, but there was some fun stuff today.
My plane was delayed so I couldn't catch the live reading of The Call of Cthulhu.
But I did catch Robert Lloyd Party's performance of Casting the Runes, by M.R. James, which really brought out the dry humour of it, especially in front of a live audience. But it ends on a suitably sinister note. You can buy his reading on Bandcamp:
https://nunkie.bandcamp.com/album/casting-the-runesIf you're not interested in this, you may want to mute me until Monday. 🧟
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”Perhaps if I had only thought about mermaids in the abstract it would not have had the same powerful effect, but I was thinking about one in particular, with whom I was personally acquainted.”
—from «Morbid Tales» by Quentin S. Crisp -
Unsure what all this cosmic horror stuff I keep talking about is?
Well, I've got a little bit of a primer here.
The TL;DR is that it's a mashup of scifi, horror, fantasy, and weird fiction...But that description barely scratches the surface of the reality.
https://esraye.com/2026/08/11/subgenre-defined-cosmic-horror/
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Next in the Lost Tales series is "The Opal Arrow-Head" (1920) by Lord Dunsany, a sequel to one of his earlier fantasies which has been rarely reprinted, and never with its mate.
https://deepcuts.blog/2026/08/08/lost-tale-the-opal-arrow-head-1920-by-lord-dunsany/
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Wtem! Nowa notka na blogu, choć tak naprawdę to nie taka nowa, bo była praktycznie gotowa już w marcu i nie pamiętam, czemu jej wtedy nie wrzuciłem (a potem Działy Się Rzeczy).
W każdym razie, piszę o zbiorze opowiadań "The Other Shore" Rebekki Campbell (wyd. @StelliformPress ) o którym dowiedziałem się z Mastodona (choć autorkę znam z "Nowej Fantastyki"). Ogólnie bardzo dobra rzecz, nie tylko dla tych zainteresowanych ekologią i klimatem (bo też nie wszystkie opowiadania skupiają się na tych tematach) - to po prostu dobra fantastyka (SF, weird fiction, odrobina horroru, może nawet i fantasy czy rzeczy które ciężko zaklasyfikować).
https://wordsmith.social/ekofikcje/jak-to-jest-byc-ekosystemem
#fantastyka #ClimateFiction #CliFi #ScienceFiction #SciFi #WeirdFiction #książki #ekofikcje @ksiazki
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Italian SFF in translation!
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““The strangenesses are multiplying… though the world before they began was already a strange place, so often it’s difficult to know if an event falls into the category of the old, ordinary strangenesses or the new, extraordinary variety.”*…
In a review of five recent books, Robert Baskin considers the genre of “weird fiction”…
On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, the British science fiction and fantasy writer M. John Harrison [accomplished author, Booker judge, and long-list nominee this year] asked a question on Third Alternative magazine’s messageboard: “The New Weird. Who does it? What is it? Is it even anything?” This incited a taxonomic fury, as writers, fans, and amateur scholars attempted to define this new subgenre. Harrison eventually offered his own definition; the New Weird, like stories published in the namesake early twentieth-century pulp magazine Weird Tales, is a mix of “horror, sf, and fantasy,” with an emphasis on the horror…
[Baskin usess the books in question to review the genre’s history (Poe, Lovecraft, Edith Wharton [!]) and its current state (Miéville, VanderMeer, et al.); he concludes…]
… So why read this shit? Why reissue it?
Weird fiction is a literature of crisis. The main narrative move of every important Weird fiction story is the Weird intrusion, the appearance of the new and wrong object or sensation or practice that does not belong. These intrusions challenge and endanger the protagonist’s sense of metaphysical stability. In the King in Yellow, the Weird intruder is the titular play—the madness of the text refuses to remain on the page. China Miéville argues that this awareness of crisis makes Weird Fiction uniquely open to interpretation: a “leeway for readings against the ideological grain is part of what makes Weird Fiction such an ongoingly fascinating field.” The Weird is not just a literature of fear and repulsion; it also always includes wonder and attraction. “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” – Lovecraft’s contribution to the Weird Mount Rushmore – depicts the state’s extermination of a group of racially ambiguous New Englanders who made the mistake of breeding with fishy foreigners. Despite this, the story ends in sublime ambiguity [spoiler for a nearly century-old story to follow]. The protagonist, who has spent the rest of the story in hateful terror of the Innsmouth locals, discovers that he is one of them, and in my favorite passage in all of Lovecraft, decides to go to the sea with his cousin and embrace The Weird: “We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y’hanthlei, and in that layer of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever.” What was once feared is now cause for exultation. The move between terror and wonder recurs throughout the Weird corpus—if you’re attuned to its Weird frequencies…
A literature for our times: “‘We Shall Dwell Amidst Wonder and Glory For Ever’: On Weird Fiction,” from @clereviewbooks.bsky.social.
* Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
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As we engage extremity, we might recall that i was on this date in 1946 that Santa Claus Land, the world’s first themed amusement park, opened in Santa Claus, Indiana…
Ronald Reagan visiting Santa Claus Land in 1955 #amusementPark #culture #EdgarAllanPoe #fiction #history #HPLovecraft #literature #Lovecraft #MJohnHarrison #SantaClausLand #themePark #weirdFictionIn 1941, Louis J. Koch visited the town of Santa Claus in Indiana. He found it sad that some children would visit this town eager to meet Santa only to find that he was not there. This fueled his desire to create a Santa Claus Land park where kids could see Santa any time of the year. Due to World War II, construction didn’t begin until August 1945.
The park opened on this day in 1946 with free admission, a toy shop, toy displays, a restaurant, a few rides and of course the jolly old elf himself. Later, a deer farm was added.
In 1955, a new section, Pleasureland (now known as Rudolph’s Reindeer Ranch) was added. As the park grew, the focus of the park grew as well focusing on families rather than just children.
By 1984, the park added a Halloween and a Fourth of July section to the park and changed its name to Holiday World. In 1993, the Koch family added the Splashin’ Safari Water Park. In 2006, during the park’s 60th anniversary, Holiday World added a Thanksgiving section.
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This week, the last and longest of the Lost Weird Tales of Arthur J. Burks: "The Brass Dachshund" (1927)
https://deepcuts.blog/2026/08/01/lost-tale-the-brass-dachshund-1927-by-arthur-j-burks/
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ICYMI: an exclusive interview with author of THE WETWORKS MIRACLE, Caleb Sierra. Find out more about Sierra's truly wild worldbuilding in this weird horror novella and what the author is working on next.
Read the full interview here: paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-the-wetworks-miracle-author-caleb-sierra
#TheWetworksMiracle #CalebSierra #EcoHorror #WeirdFiction #ClimateFiction #Biopunk #SpeculativeFiction #HorrorBooks #Novella #AuthorInterview #SmallPress #IndiePublishing #Bookstodon
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Much gratitude to Cynthia Gómez, author of MUÑECA and THE NIGHTMARE BOX AND OTHER STORIES, for this blurb for Caleb Sierra's THE WETWORKS MIRACLE. If you're looking to get your hands on one of the strangest books you'll ever read, WETWORKS is available from us and your favorite indie bookstore. "The tree-cattle are lowing to be milked." 😱
#TheWetworksMiracle #CalebSierra #CynthiaGomez #EcoHorror #BodyHorror #WeirdFiction #SurrealHorror #SmallPressBooks #LatinxHorror
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Happy birthday to the incomparable British writer #MJohnHarrison, born #OTD in 1945. His books are in almost constant rotation here, and it’s no exaggeration to say I’d probably see the world in a very different way were it not for his work.
Yes, I have multiple editions of The Course of the Heart. Can you ever have *too many* editions of one of the greatest novels ever written?
Many happy returns, Mike!
#SpeculativeFiction #WeirdFiction #ScienceFiction #LiteraryFiction #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we continue to look at the Lost Weird Tales of Arthur J. Burks with "The Sniper" (1926):
https://deepcuts.blog/2026/07/25/lost-tale-the-sniper-1926-by-arthur-j-burks/
#weirdtales #weirdfiction #military #historicalfiction #ww1 #wwi
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The Wetworks Miracle is out next week! It's a quick and brutal read, a delightful mix of weird horror, biopunk, and portal fantasy. If you're curious about one of the weirdest books we've ever published, check out this review from Chasing Shadows: https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/book-review-the-wetworks-miracle-by-caleb-sierra/
#TheWetworksMiracle #BookReview #HorrorBooks #BodyHorror #EcoHorror #WeirdFiction #SpeculativeFiction #SmallPressBooks #Bookstodon
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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein presents the Lost Weird Tales of Arthur J. Burks, beginning with "The Guardian of the Malecon" (1926)
https://deepcuts.blog/2026/07/22/lost-tale-the-guardian-of-the-malecon-1926-by-arthur-j-burks/
#weirdtales #weirdfiction #dominicanrepublic #1920s #weirdlit
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A 1924 ledger tracks laboratory supplies delivered to a cellar in Ilkley, but how did a professor order these items decades before he was even born?
If anyone can verify this independently, please do.
https://chronostrange.com/the-1924-ledger-of-the-blackwood-estate/
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"A group of Chinese men were kneeling, their heads touching the floor in worship of the great green foot."
Uncredited interior art for Howard R. Marsh's short story "The Foot Fetish" in Weird Tales (June 1926)
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Xmas in July: finally found my copy of Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms, missing since 2024.
#lgbtq #weirdfiction #scifi #books #alisonrumfitt #brainwyrms #queer #horror #queerhorror #bodyhorror #Transgender
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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we present another lost tale: "The Kiss of Madagascar" (1924) by Seabury Quinn - and its ties to WEIRD TALES.
https://deepcuts.blog/2026/07/18/lost-tale-the-kiss-of-madagascar-1924-by-seabury-quinn/
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“The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich”, by Fritz Leiber
The very immensity of the desert impressed me more than I had expected. Being on the edge of the little town of Smithville seemed to me like being on the boundary between the finite and the fearful infinite.
The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich was published for the first time in 1997 — five years after Fritz Leiber’s death, and sixty years after it was written. The manuscript was lost in the 1950s and resurfaced in the 1990s.
In this novella, George Kramer receives a letter from longtime friend John Ellis, who lives in the small desert town of Smithville. In the letter, Ellis tells of the death of his wife, Mary, and Kramer decides to visit his old friend. Upon his arrival, strange things start to happen.
This is a gem of a book, and it belongs on the shelf of every weird fiction reader. Adding to the appeal are the illustrations by Jason Van Hollander (see below for an example).
Enjoy!
art by Jason Van Hollander “There are an infinite number of directions in the desert.” #books #horror #lovecraft #lovecraftian #reading #timeTravel #weirdFiction
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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we're trying something different: presenting the first in a series of lost and forgotten tales.
"Something from Beyond" (1941) by Paul Dennis LaVond is a story of the Cthulhu Mythos - but one never collected or republished since its first appearance.
https://deepcuts.blog/2026/07/11/lost-tale-something-from-beyond-1941-by-paul-dennis-lavond/
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"The Wetworks Miracle is an eco-horror epic in the skin of a novella, a dazzling, dreadful plunge into ... terrors of the sort that one might find in a China Miéville novel or a film by Guillermo Del Toro." - E.G. Condé, author of Sordidez.
THE WETWORKS MIRACLE is out at the end of the month there's still time to get your order in!
#TheWetworksMiracle #CalebSierra #StelliformPress #EcoHorror #WeirdFiction #Biopunk #BodyHorror #SpeculativeFiction #SmallPress #Bookstodon #HorrorBooks