Recently, we compiled a massive 750,000-word, 1,200-page anthology The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (Atlantic/Tor), which covers 100 years of weird fiction. In doing so, we revisited many old favorites and discovered new ones. This included discovery of our thoughts about some of the best women writers of weird fiction. Although there were many women […]
This December, Weirdfictionreview.com intends to post comprehensive lists of the best of 2012 weird fiction and nonfiction. We’ll be consulting with our managing editor Adam Mills, our reviewer Maureen Kincaid Speller, and our contributors — including some who read in languages other than English — but the best way to be considered is to make sure we have a copy in […]
We’re delighted this week to feature a story from Hieroglyphic Press’s recent release, Requiems & Nightmares by 1800s Italian writer Guido Gozzano. The book has been translated by the team of Brendan and Anna Connell. In addition to the story “The Real Face,” we have an extensive interview with the translators — about translations generally and about Gozzano in particular, […]
All editors have key concepts or ideas about the approach to creating an anthology. Here are a few of the ideas and foci that occurred to us during the preliminary steps of creating The Weird anthology and during the process of research and selection. — Ann & Jeff Edited in the context of: Avoid the Great Certainty (certainty and making […]
(Image by Jeremy Zerfoss) Buy The Weird compendium here… A “weird tale,” as defined by H.P. Lovecraft in his nonfiction writings and given early sanctuary within the pages of magazines like Weird Tales (est. 1923) is a story that has a supernatural element but does not fall into the category of traditional ghost story or Gothic tale, […]
We’re proud to announce the publication this week of The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories in North America, via Tor Books. We have collected over one hundred years of weird fiction in a single volume of over 750,000 words, starting from around 1908 and ending in 2010. More than 20 nationalities are represented and seven new translations were […]
We’re pleased this week to note that our The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories compendium, which is already being taught in some US universities, has begun to garner some rave reviews in advance of its May 8th North American publication date. (You can find the full TOC of 116 stories here.) Both Publishers […]
(Art by Jeremy Zerfoss) Our 12 Days of Monsters celebration ends today, and we’re thrilled with the content we’ve been able to provide to our readers. We want to thank everyone who contributed to this effort. Special thanks to IAFA and their International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Without their theme of the […]
Note: Due to a technical issue, the excerpt from Johanna Sinisalo’s novel Troll scheduled to post today will run in April instead, along with an article by the author and an interview. Our apologies to the author and to our readers for this delay. As part of our 12 Days of Monsters celebration, we’re offering something special […]
The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) is an annual scholarly conference held annually in Orlando, Florida, and devoted to all aspects of the fantastic (broadly defined) as it appears in literature, film, and the other arts. It is sponsored by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. This […]