This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by the schedule of posts. Michael Cisco (1970 – ) is an American writer best known for his first novel, The Divinity Student, which was […]
If you are a weird person (and the chances of that, considering you read Weird Fiction Review, are fairly high), then you most likely discovered this salient fact about yourself when you were young. Some discover this in preschool, but middle school, for many of us, was the moment we realized we fit in with our […]
Agostino Arrivabene lives and works in a seventeenth century iron-gated house outside Milan. His home provides the secluded, protected environment in which he finds the solitude and space necessary to create his stunning paintings. Arrivabene says, “My house is like a nautilus shell wherein time has stopped. Inside you will encounter a rarefied atmosphere where … scarlet velvet […]
When the newly released Tor edition The Weird: a Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer arrived at my front door, it felt like an event. It was an event. I’d had an electronic edition of the Atlantic/Corvus edition on my Nook for a good long while, but this… this was […]
The following is Ann VanderMeer’s introduction to The Divinity Student, originally written for the Centipede Press edition of the title and included in the Cheeky Frawg e‑book edition. Fans and readers may know that The Divinity Student was originally published in 1999 by Ann via her publishing imprint Buzzcity Press. This, then, is both a story […]
John Kessel (1950 — ) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy who has won multiple awards for his short stories and novellas, including the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, the James Tiptree Jr. Award, and the Nebula Award. Kessel has also written several novels, including Good News From Outer Space (1989) and Corrupting Dr. Nice […]
If you are in New York City this summer, then make some time to see Head (July 10-Aug 11), an exhibit curated by Robert Curcio and D. Dominick Lombardi for Bosi Contemporary. Featuring the works of Christophe Avella-Bagur, Benedetta Bonichi, Richard Butler, Lori Field, Rieko Fujinami, Chambliss Giobbi, Ronald L. Hall, Nina Levy, D. Dominick Lombardi, Esther […]
[Editor’s Note: The following embedded video is not a trailer, but in fact the entire film of Stalker. Many of Tarkovsky’s films are in the public domain and can now be viewed for free online and elsewhere.] In Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, three men leave the confines of a rotting Eastern European city and walk through a pleasant-looking rural […]
Google Franz Hellens and you’ll probably get the mournful portrait above by Modigliani, more famous now for its artist than subject. Born in Brussels in 1881, Hellens was unfit for service and sat out World War I in Nice, where he met Modigliani, as well as his future wife Maria Marcovna. In a late book of essays […]
This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by the schedule of posts. Gahan Wilson (1930 — ) is an iconic American writer and cartoonist who has received the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement […]