Victoria (V.H.) Leslie is a writer whose work has appeared in Black Static, Interzone, and Shadows and Tall Trees. She also writes academic pieces for a range of literary publications, as well as a monthly column for This is Horror, focusing on the roots of the genre. She recently received an Honorable Mention from Ellen Datlow for her story ‘Skein […]
The following is an excerpt from Michael Cisco’s novel The Divinity Student, currently available in e‑book form from Cheeky Frawg Books, in addition to several other of his novels. WFR is proud to serialize The Divinity Student in support of the author and his books, and we will be reprinting the entire novel over the […]
This week’s featured story is “Buddha Nostril Bird,” written by John Kessel and originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction in 1990. This story has subsequently been reprinted numerous times, most recently in The Collected Kessel, available in ebook form. It is also featured in the anthology The Secret History of Science Fiction, which Kessel co-edited alongside […]
Eric Basso (1947– ) is an American poet, novelist, playwright, and critic, and also a perennial favorite of the staff at Weirdfictionreview.com. Despite being criminally overlooked in contemporary literature, his writing is important to the development and possible futures of weird fiction. His novella “The Beak Doctor,” long a cult favorite among avant-garde gothic writers, was reprinted […]
Marc Laidlaw (1960 – ) is an eclectic American writer of science fiction and horror whose long career has included a stint in the cyberpunk movement and significant contributions to the popular Half-Life video game series. Laidlaw first started publishing idiosyncratic, hard-to-define short fiction in the late 1970s, but is perhaps best known for writing Dad’s Nuke (1985) […]
Marly Youmans is the author of eleven books, primarily novels and poetry, along with several Southern fantasy novels for young adults. Her most recent books are: a novel, A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage (Mercer University Press, 2012), which won The Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction and took home the silver in the ForeWord BOTYA fiction […]
(Video for the ODD? anthology containing “The Fork.”) Jeffrey Thomas is a prolific writer of science fiction and horror, best known for his stories set in the nightmarish future city called Punktown, such as the novel Deadstock (Solaris Books) and the collection Punktown (Ministry of Whimsy Press), from which a story was reprinted in St. Martin’s The Year’s […]
Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. A prolific writer, Benson created the famous Mapp and Lucia series, which satirized upper-middle class British life in the 1920s and 30s. He also developed a reputation for writing macabre ghost stories and other […]
Bruno Schulz (1892 – 1942) is one of the most imaginative writers of the 20th century and a key touchstone in the history of weird fiction. His collections The Street of Crocodiles (first published in English in 1963) and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (1988) are classics of literature, marked by Schulz’s unique and […]
Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including Bullettime and the forthcoming Love is the Law. His short fiction has appeared, or soon will, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Weird Tales, Tor.com, and the anthologies Lovecraft’s Monsters and Best American Mystery Stories. Among other things, Mamatas is highly regarded for his work in Lovecraftian fiction, including the […]