Dreamtime, Venetia Welby
Venetia Welby’s exquisite and hallucinogenic Dreamtime (Quartet, April) is set in a near future in which we have lost the battle against climate change. –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 Rabbit Island traverse the fickle, … 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 a trailer by her stubborn, … 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 the ravages of global warming, … 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 lab. Something small, and very … 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 also lush with characters — … 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 high level of drama, intensity, … 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 nature and everyday life. His … 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 the tree of knowledge and … 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 play in the stories we … 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 have lost since we were … 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 now excited to turn the … 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 virtuoso skill, well served in … 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 and received a great number … 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 named Rachel survives as a … Read more