Dreamtime, Venetia Welby
Venetia Welby’s exquisite and hallucinogenic Dreamtime (Quartet, April) is set in a near future in which we have lost the … Read more
Category Archives: Weird Fiction
Rabbit Island, Elvira Navarro
Combining the gritty surrealism of David Lynch with the explosive interior meditations of Clarice Lispector, the stories in Elvira Navarro’s … Read more
Ruthie Fear, Maxim Loskutoff
In Montana’s Bitterroot Valley, young Ruthie Fear sees an apparition: a strange, headless creature near a canyon creek. Raised in … Read more
The Swimmers, Marian Womack
A claustrophobic, literary dystopia set in the hot, luscious landscape of Andalusia from the author of The Golden Key. After … Read more
Fungoid, William Meikle
When the end came, it wasn’t zombies, asteroids, global warming or nuclear winter. It was something that escaped from a … Read more
The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth, Veeraporn Nitiprapha
The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth, which won the South East Asian Writers Award for the original Thai edition, is … Read more
The Migration, Helen Marshall
Marshall is painting on a large canvas here and her style is unabashedly baroque: the novel is characterized by a … Read more
Compulsory Games, Robert Aikman
Aickman’s superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through a radical overturning of the laws of … Read more
The Vorrh Trilogy, Brian Catling
Click here for all, including The Vorrh and The Erstwhile. The richly grotesque Vorrh trilogy describes a quest to rescue … Read more
The Merry Spinster, Mallory Ortberg
Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected, and frequently, alarming emotional complexities at … Read more
The Strange Bird, Jeff VanderMeer
Pretty much anything Jeff VanderMeer writes is strange, fascinating, and creates a sense of wonder that many of us adults … Read more
The End We Start From, Megan Hunter
This novel, published on May 18, 2017, will also be made into a movie by actor Benedict Cumberbatch. Benedict is … Read more
Fever Dream, Samanta Schweblin
Translated into English, January 2017–(originally Distancia de rescate), Fever Dream is shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. With … Read more
The Willows, Algernon Blackwood
Discover The Willows Back to the Dragonfly Library I asked the WeirdLit subreddit about their recommendations for ecological weird fiction … Read more
Borne, Jeff VanderMeer
In Borne, the epic new novel from Jeff VanderMeer, author of the acclaimed, bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy, a young woman … Read more