Johanna Sinisalo is a Finnish science fiction and fantasy writer. An important figure in the Finnish science fiction scene since the late 1980s and early ‘90s (winning a rare back-to-back collection of Atorox Awards for short fiction in the genre), she was also the first Finnish science fiction writer to make a mainstream breakthrough by breaking genre barriers. Sinisalo […]
Simon Strantzas is the author of the critically-acclaimed Cold to the Touch (Tartarus Press, 2009), a collection of thirteen tales of the strange and supernatural. His first collection, Beneath the Surface (Humdrumming, 2008), has been called “one of the most important debut short story collections in the genre”. Strantzas’s stories have appeared in The Mammoth Book […]
Earlier this year, Aqueduct Press released The Moment of Change, a collection of poetry edited by Rose Lemberg, founder and co-editor of the web magazine Stone Telling. Since its release, this anthology has garnered strong critical praise and recognition as a benchmark in literature. According to Lemberg, before and during her reading period for the anthology she […]
Stefan Grabiński (1887 — 1936) was a Polish writer of horror fiction who considered himself an expert on demonology and magic. Some critics have called him the “Polish Poe” or the “Polish Lovecraft,” and suggested he believed in the supernatural forces in his stories. Known primarily as a novelist, he wrote many short stories, including those under the name […]
In January, Weirdfictionreview.com launched a special feature for the site: 101 Weird Writers, a series of essays that would profile individual authors and their stories in The Weird, placing them in the context of both the authors’ various oeuvres and weird literature overall. The goal in this was, and still is, to introduce readers to writers familiar […]
Eric Schaller is a writer and illustrator living in New Hampshire. Possessing a unique, precise, and decidedly weird aesthetic, he has contributed art to publications such as Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and Last Drink Bird Head, in the case of the latter creating the illustration that provided the inspiration for that anthology. He has also contributed art to […]
J. Sheridan Le Fanu occupies a unique place in the richly textured histories of weird and supernatural literature. Those who have read and enjoyed his stories recall him as a master of a strange and dreadful kind of fiction, making indelible contributions to traditions such as the Gothic, the ghost story, and the vampire myth, all the while […]
Earlier in the month, just before the 12 Days of Monsters started proper here at Weirdfictionreview.com, we contacted various writers to ask them something: who, or what, was their favorite monster, and why? The writers we contacted are themselves well acquainted with all sorts of things that go bump in the night, prominently featuring monsters […]
Eric Basso (1947 — ) is an American poet, novelist, playwright, and critic, born in Baltimore, Maryland. His novella “The Beak Doctor” has had a cult following among avant-garde gothic writers since it was first published by the Chicago Review in 1977. Since then he has published a novel, several plays, many poetry collections, and a book of nonfiction. In […]
All this week on Weird Fiction Review, we have something special planned: we are featuring and examining the work of Eric Basso, an innovator and great writer and artist. Readers of the anthology that inspired this site, The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories, will recall Basso’s story from that collection, “The Beak Doctor.” […]