Lindsay Stern is an up-and-coming writer whose novella, Town of Shadows, was recently published by Scrambler Books. A native of New York City, Stern is currently finishing her B.A. in English and Philosophy at Amherst College. Town of Shadows has already received strong praise from authors such as Patricia Morrisroe, who lauds the book as being […]
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. Luigi Ugolini (1891 — 1980) was an Italian writer who garnered an international reputation for his short stories. […]
Brendan Connell was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1970. He has had fiction published in numerous places, including McSweeney’s, Adbusters, and the World Fantasy Award winning anthologies Leviathan 3 (The Ministry of Whimsy 2002), and Strange Tales (Tartarus Press 2003). His published books are: The Translation of Father Torturo (Prime Books, 2005), Dr. […]
Belgians, on both sides of the lingual divide, are great jokesters and hoaxsters. Fittingly, the founding figure of Francophone Belgian literature was the folkloric prankster Thyl Ulenspiegel, hero of Charles de Coster’s Quixotic epic, itself a willful attempt to synthesize national identity as recently as 1867. Half French, half Flemish (with a touch of Dutch and German); […]
Amid all of the cynicism, snark, satire, and dark irony that pervades this 21st century culture, there is an unspeakable, insatiable need for the wondrous, the fantastic, the doorway into the mythic imagination. We sometimes forget the cost of that journey — how much it takes to truly grapple with alternative landscapes, creatures, or cultures that uncannily tap […]
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. Tanith Lee (1947 — ) is a highly respected English writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy, with over […]
(Sure, yeah… spoilers.) Few writers have a debut like Anne Richter’s — her first book published in 1954, at the age of 15, and translated into English three years later by no less than Alice B. Toklas, who praises in her preface: “Each story of this book shows sensitive observation, delicate choice in its recording, distinction in the […]
English writer Tanith Lee (1947 — ) is a deeply respected and major force in the fields of science fiction, horror, and fantasy, with over seventy novels and hundreds of short stories to her credit. She has been a regular contributor over many years to Weird Tales magazine. She has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, […]
(Art by Jeremy Zerfoss) The following essay is reprinted from Books from Finland, an online literary journal for Finnish writing. — The Editors *** I’ve got a problem, and it’s a problem I share with my agent, my publisher, book retailers and librarians. Nobody really knows which literary pigeonhole my works belong to. Almost without exception my stories include some element […]
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 […]