weird fiction
nounEtymology
Popularized by H. P. Lovecraft.
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A macabre subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th…
A macabre subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th century, pre-dating the horror and fantasy genres.
- Weird fiction is, after all, notoriously typified by the presence of entities so radically different from normality that they are, to borrow a characteristic phrase from H. P. Lovecraft, “impossible to describe” (Lovecraft 2014: 404).
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for weird fiction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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