Comments on: The Weird Novel ../ Your Non-Denominational Source for The Weird Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:49:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Sam Higgins ../#comment-95428 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:49:46 +0000 ../../../../#comment-95428 “The Library on Mount Char” is one of the coolest (first) Weird Novels I’ve read since discovering the genre. Author is Scott Hawkins.

“The Tel Aviv Dossier” is a kind of rare-ish but nonetheless awesome and unique (and most unsettling) short Weird Novel by two Israeli authors: Lavie Tidhar and Nir Yaniv.

I highly recommend both! The first might be a good gateway novel into the weird?

]]> By: ricky grove ../#comment-67619 Tue, 02 Dec 2014 01:43:55 +0000 ../../../../#comment-67619 Excellent article. Sends me to my book list to add new titles/authors. I’d like to add Lanark by A.Gray and Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall. Do they stand up to the Weird Tale criteria test? I’m not sure, but they feel like Weird Fiction to me.

]]> By: David Davis ../#comment-65276 Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:32:44 +0000 ../../../../#comment-65276 ASM. Yes! Book of the New Sun is a personal fav of mine.]]> In reply to ASM.

Yes! Book of the New Sun is a personal fav of mine.

]]> By: ASM ../#comment-65121 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:08:37 +0000 ../../../../#comment-65121 Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe!

]]> By: Scott Nicolay ../#comment-62087 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 06:51:13 +0000 ../../../../#comment-62087 _Our Lady of Darkness_ by Fritz Leiber

]]> By: raul eaten ../#comment-59962 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 21:36:08 +0000 ../../../../#comment-59962 I have to add one more novel(I can never just choose one): The Course of the Heart by M.John Harrison.

]]> By: raul eaten ../#comment-59960 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 21:25:39 +0000 ../../../../#comment-59960 Given that my favorite form for the weird story is the novella or short novel and the long story, I would give 2 titles for favorite novel: Hawksmoor by Peter Akroyd and the Sacred Fount by Henry James (which is about psychic vampirism, but perhaps not!)

]]> By: Chris B. ../#comment-59842 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:23:43 +0000 ../../../../#comment-59842 Some of my favorite weird works fall between short story and novel, into the novella realm:

“The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine” by Peter Straub

“The Metamorphosis” by Kafka

“The Beak Doctor” by Basso

“Don’t Look Now” by Daphne Du Maurier

And some of Lucius Shepard’s “Dragon Griaule” pieces.

A good chunk of the material Subterranean puts out are weird tales of about novella-length. The next of those titles I’m looking forward to trying out is “The End of the Sentence” by Kat Howard and Maria Dahvana Headley.

]]> By: Larry B Vossler ../#comment-59814 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 09:18:38 +0000 ../../../../#comment-59814 Rolando Topor’s The Tenant
Anything by Michael Cisco

]]> By: immature ../#comment-58280 Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:34:22 +0000 ../../../../#comment-58280 Klein’s The Ceremonies
Machen’s The Three Imposters

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