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Exclusive Interview: Thomas Ligotti on Weird Fiction: Includes Ligotti's top picks for under-appreciated weird fiction!
Thomas Ligotti (1953 — ) is an iconic American writer of weird short fiction whose oeuvre has been as ground-breaking as, if not always as well-acknowledged as, that of Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and H.P. Lovecraft. His first collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer (1986), is an outright classic in the field, with a subsequent compilation from several […]
The Weird: “The Efficacy of a Worm-eaten Dictionary”: The Afterword to the New Anthology from Corvus, The Weird
[note color=#eeeeee] (Art by Aeron Alfrey) “These are strange aeons. These texts, dead and/or not, burrow, and we cannot predict everything they will infect or eat their path through. But certainly your brain, and they will eat the books you read from today on, too. That is how the Weird recruits.…This is a worm farm. These […]
Interview: Reading The Weird’s Leah Thomas: Sandkings, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and Struwwelpeter
Leah Thomas, currently a student at Michigan State University, attended the iconic Clarion Writers’ Workshop in 2010 and is a new writer who just made her first fiction sale earlier this year. She’s definitely one of the talents from the upcoming generation of fantastical writers that you’ll want to be on the look-out for over the next […]
WFR Print Journal Sneak Peek: The First Ladies of Fear Fiction: Forgotten Masters of the Weird Tale #1
[note color=#eeeeee] A Note From the Editors: As our “About” section indicates, Weirdfictionreview.com exists in a symbiotic relationship with the annual print journal The Weird Fiction Review, edited by S.T. Joshi. Their second issue is due out soon, and in the meantime we urge you to check out the Centipede Press website and order volume 1. Joshi is […]
Arkham House: Weird Fiction, Blissfully Weird Covers: Nameless Horrors, Skulking Shadows, Dread Armies of the Night
Arkham House is largely credited with keeping the flame alive for H.P. Lovecraft and others before they became more widely known. The iconic publisher’s devotion to weird fiction is legendary, and AbeBooks.com’s Richard Davies recently posted a feature on Arkham, including a lovely assortment of their delightfully odd covers. As the feature rightly notes, “This publisher’s books are highly […]
An Interview with Kelly Link: “All Books Are Weird”
Kelly Link is an influential American writer of hard-to-classify short fiction that has been described as fantasy, slipstream, or magic realism. Link has published three collections: Stranger Things Happen (2001), Magic for Beginners (2005), and Pretty Monsters (2008). Her stories have won the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. Although not known as a writer of […]
Exclusive Interview: Neil Gaiman on The Weird
WeirdFictionReview.com caught up with Gaiman right before the 2011 World Fantasy Convention. Gaiman was a guest of honor at the con, and two stories from the Stories anthology he co-edited with Al Sarrantonio won World Fantasy Awards this year.
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (table of contents)
Hot off the presses: a photograph of The Weird, taken by our fearlessly weird editor at Corvus Command & Control. We’re proud to announce the publication by Atlantic’s Corvus imprint of The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Fictions. We have collected over one hundred years of weird fiction in a single volume of over 750,000 words, starting from […]
Weird Gallery: Myrtle Von Damitz III
Myrtle Von Damitz III is a painter living in New Orleans who sees her work as a form of storytelling. She has had numerous solo exhibits as well as group gallery showings around the country. She is the founder and curator of Babylon Lexicon, an annual exhibition of artists’ books and local independent presses.