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New Weird

In the introduction to Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's anthology, The New Weird, New Weird is defined as "a type of urban, secondary-world fiction that subverts the romanticized ideas about place found in traditional fantasy, largely by choosing realistic, complex real-world models as the jumping off point for creation of settings that may combine elements of both science fiction and fantasy."

New Weird is largely inspired by the pulp horror serials of the past, such as those compiled in the magazine "Weird Tales," to which acclaimed horror author H.P. Lovecraft was a major contributor. New Weird, in
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Absolution (Southern Reach, #4)
There Is No Antimemetics Division
If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (John Dies at the End, #4)
Hummingbird Salamander
Kill Six Billion Demons, Book 4: King of Swords
Ludluda (The Chronicles of Ludwich, #2)
Ambergris (Ambergris, #1-3)
The Shadow Saint (The Black Iron Legacy, #2)
Gogmagog (The Chronicles of Ludwich #1)
A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1)
The Navigating Fox
The Broken God (The Black Iron Legacy, #3)
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
Big Dark Hole
Creeping Jenny
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2)
The City & the City
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
Iron Council (New Crobuzon, #3)
Kraken
City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1)
Borne (Borne, #1)
Embassytown
The New Weird
The Etched City
Railsea
Finch (Ambergris, #3)
Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego by Mariana EnríquezNefando by Mónica OjedaThe Night by Rodrigo Blanco CalderónSantiago se va by José UrriolaAndor by Raquel Abend Van Dalen
Ficción Weird en Español
123 books — 9 voters
The Fisherman by John  LanganAnnihilation by Jeff VanderMeerThe Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValleうずまき [Uzumaki] by Junji ItoThe Rim of Morning by William  Sloane
Cosmic & Lovecraftian Horror
226 books — 92 voters

Uzumaki by Junji ItoMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-GarciaThe Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValleJohn Dies at the End by David  WongHorrorstör by Grady Hendrix
Best contemporary horror books
89 books — 18 voters
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayTuck Everlasting by Natalie BabbittBless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo AnayaAnnihilation by Jeff VanderMeerDandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Summer of Speculative Reading
117 books — 12 voters

Rivers of London by Ben AaronovitchNeverwhere by Neil GaimanThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeWhispers Under Ground by Ben AaronovitchMoon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
Urban London Fiction
119 books — 30 voters
The Craziest Book Ever Written by Mr. WFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonAnimal Farm by George OrwellRebecca by Daphne du MaurierAmerican Gods by Neil Gaiman
Books With the Best First Chapter
37 books — 11 voters


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Be', dipende dai soffitti alti, no? Vedi cose che non esistono. E le cose che vedi sembrano altre cose. Un uccello può essere un pipistrello. Un pipistrello può essere una busta di plastica che vola. Così va il mondo. Vedi una cosa per un'altra. Uccelli-foglie. Pipistrelli-uccelli. Ombre fatte di luci. Rumori accidentali che sembrano più significativi. È sempre così, dovunque vai. ...more
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She was Remade she was (Remade scum), he knew it, he saw it, and still he felt incessantly what was inside him, and he felt a great scab of habit and prejudice split from him, part from his skin where his homeland had inscribed him deep. Heal me, he thought, not understanding what he thought, hoping for a reconfiguration. There was a caustic pain as he peeled off a clot of old life and exposed himself open and unsure to her, to new air. Breathing fast again. His feelings welled out and bled tog ...more
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