Ramsey Campbell is one of those iconic, award-winning British writers of weird and horror fiction who needs little or no introduction. And as is widely known, early in his career he was championed by August Derleth, the keeper of H.P. Lovecraft’s legacy. The front matter for this new edition notes, “After Lovecraft’s death August Derleth […]
It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity — but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it […]
Steve Rasnic Tem’s Deadfall Hotel has been keenly anticipated by weird fiction geeks for more than two decades, ever since horror icon Charles L. Grant published the story “Bloodwolf” in his anthology Shadows 9 (1986). Tem, a winner of the World Fantasy Award and British Fantasy Award, noted that the story was the seed for a much […]
We’re pleased to be able to bring you Caitlín R. Kiernan’s weird and creepy story from The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists, an original anthology published earlier this year by HarperVoyager and featuring Mike Mignola, Holly Black, Lev Grossman, China Mieville, Helen Oyeyemi, Cherie […]
Translated by António Monteiro With many thanks to Ex Occidente Press. All rights reserved. Listen, through the silly barrier of the windowpane, black as clotted blood, to the whole apotheosis of the nasty noises of the storm. It has come from afar, from the bottom of the malevolent sea. It has stolen from the accursed shores […]
Translated by António Monteiro With many thanks to Ex Occidente Press. All rights reserved. Introduction The manuscript that is at the bottom of this extraordinary adventure was discovered at the latitude of 92º 57’ North and the longitude of 6º West, that is to say, more or less at the location of the Scilly Islands, […]
Michal Ajvaz’s second novel translated into English, The Golden Age, is described by the publisher, Dalkey Archive Press, as “a fantastical travelogue by a modern-day Gulliver about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic.” The various observations and encounters of the unnamed narrator delineate a prolonged culture clash between the European interlopers and the […]
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[note color=#eeeeee] Algernon Blackwood (1869 — 1951) was a prolific English writer best known for his supernatural horror. In tales such as “The Willows” (1908), reprinted in The Weird anthology, unease is generated by ambiguity that mixes the weird with a talent for writing about wild or rural places. Although Lovecraft thought Blackwood a master of the ghost story, Blackwood famously […]
[note color=”#eeeeee”] Dear Reader: We hadn’t intended to post more fiction this week, but then Kelly Link mentioned “The New Mother” by Lucy Clifford (1882) in her interview for WFR, and that made us remember that the story was also cited as an influence on our other interview this week, with Neil Gaiman. Specifically, on […]