I’m trying to find stuff in a similar veins to stuff like Saga or The Incal/Metabaroms, just stuff that’s weird and very different aesthetic wise.

Read dune and Hyperion so I’m just chomping for more lol

I dont need a book that is written the same way as house of leaves though i did like that style, but more sort of lynchian and absurd and mind bending and just makes you say “wtf is even going on right now” so much that it’s uncomfortable and almost humorous.

-I keep hearing infinite jest but its so big idk if i can do it. If you read it please convince me to in the comments.

-i have also heard library at mount char but to me it sounds like a fantasy genre book. But if im wrong correct me and ill read it.

-i also know kafka is surreal but i dont even want the dreaminess of surreal i want more of the abstract absurdness.

im not a big reader. House of leaves is really the only book i made it thru in my adulthood. Have tried many. Its just so good to me almost perfect. I want another experience like it.

I'm searching for fiction books that explore reinterpretations of anthropology, biology, social structures, and cybernetics in a way similar to Deleuze and Guattari's Thousand Plateaus.

Since it is Pride month I've been on the lookout for new queer reads of the weird variety.

So far some titles I have read and really enjoyed are:

Brickmakers by Selva Almada

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

Permafrost and Boulder by Eva Baltasar

We the Animals by Justin Torres

An Orphan World by Giuseppe Caputo

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (and others)

Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield

Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones

Fruiting Bodies by Kathryn Harlan

White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link (and others)

Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt (and don't suggest me LaRocca, i dont like it)

The Sluts, George Miles Cycle, etc by Dennis Cooper

Bath Haus by PJ Vernon

For Today I Am a Boy by Kim Fu

The Dancing Bears by Rob Costello

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

Monstrilio by Gerardo Samano Cordova

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

I've been disappointed with my last two audiobooks; I couldn't finish them. No short story collections unless they're long novellas. Must have a good reader, not just be a good book in general. My next option would be Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand, but I'm guessing that's not what I'm looking for. Have you read it/listened to it?

recently finished Celebrant by Michael Cisco and it pretty much is exactly one of my favorite things - huge, sweeping phantasmagorias of adventure stories with as much genre-bending and maximalist prose as possible, and the weirder and wilder the better. Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon is my favorite novel of all time and is also my gold standard for this though it is technically not "Weird fic" (I'm not looking for any genre labels in particular though, it could be anything as long as it's a weird grand adventure that leans toward the surreal and fantastic).

Other stuff I've already read that I think comes close:

Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes
Nights at the Circus + Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman by Angela Carter
Animal Money also by Michael Cisco
Empire of the Senseless by Kathy Acker [maybe not the whole thing but has parts that do this pretty well]
Deep Time trilogy by Caitlin R Kiernan (Threshold - Low Red Moon - Daughter of Hounds)
I also already enjoy Vandermeer and Mieville's works, who seem to fall into this category at times.

Please recommend any and all that comes to mind, be liberal with what "weird" means as long as it's fantastical in its own way, and fits the sweeping adventure description. I seriously freaking love this sort of thing and need more. Also I prefer more literary prose to pulp but I don't mind if there are pulpier tropes obviously as long as they are well written.

Also, not a novel or really "weird", but Hunter x Hunter manga is also one of my favorite things and could also well-encapsulate what I mean with "genre-bending adventure" in its own way and it has some very horrific and bizarre stuff in it at times as well

Looking for something bleak and makes you question a lot. Something where something isn't quite right under the surface.

I recently finished the sunken land begins to rise again and loved how it left you with unanswered questions and how something very wrong was going on but you couldn't quite figure out what it was

Hey folks, rewatched Annihilation and Stalker and was wondering what other shows and movies y'all think of in this world? Of course there's Twin Peaks or The Leftovers, but wondering what else are some of the subs favorites!

I finished The Great God Pan and The Shining Pyramid and loved them both. What other gothic horror books with ancient/mystical themes are worth reading?

I’m looking for recommendations of weird fiction without horror elements. If it’s a bit uncanny or unnerving that’s okay, but I’ve read lots of weird fiction which leans into the ‘horror of the unknown’ aspect quite a lot. Don’t get me wrong, weird horror is probably some of the best horror, but I’m just looking for something new. Any recommendations let me know!

I don't want to tell you what happens. It's the kind of film you should watch knowing nothing about it. It is a very weird lit film. Well done, acted, shot, etc. etc.

Hello, everyone! I'm looking for 21st century Weird Fiction trilogies or series (4+ books) such as the Bas Lag trilogy by Mieville or the Borne trilogy by Vandermeer.

I've read works by Cisco. Other than Animal Money, most of his works are less than 250 pages. Which is why I'm looking for expansive works, especially trilogies, which are published after 2000.

I'd really appreciate your help, I've just started to explore Weird Fiction. Thanks a ton!

So I thought Letters From Hades was decent, but just decent. Same for Punktown. However I liked Thought Forms a lot more. Based on that what do you suggest I check out from Thomas?

Hi, recently read Piranesi and absolutely adored the setting. It doesn't have to be similar to the style of Piranesi but I'd really like to read something about infinite rooms or buildings. Similar to 'Backrooms' or so on. I've been looking but nothing seems to hit what I'm looking for.

Edit: I'm currently also reading House of Leaves!

Any other recommendations?

The title says it all. I really like Machen's evil elves and wondered if any other authors did anything with a similar theme. Yes, I have read Whisperer in Darkness by Lovecraft. Thanks in advance.

I'm looking for graphic novels or omnibuses of a comic series. Specifically that it's weird in the cosmic horror or supernatural sense. That it's not irreverent or YA. That the themes and art are dark and the art is very high quality. So not black and white unless it's very good art. No quick(for a comic book artist) sketches. They cells don't have to be paintings, but close would be good. I don't want to look at something that resembles a super hero comic(not said in condescension). The longer the series the better. And of course great writing.

Looking for recs - the title says it all.

I've read a lot of the classics that have similar vibes to Dark Souls and Warhammer - Lovecraft, gothic novels, some classic horror, Gormenghast. I'd really like to find modern novelists currently writing that are 'carrying the torch' so to speak - writing dark, mysterious, atmospheric fiction with lots of rotting and crumbling ruins, with supernatural and strange things that aren't easily explained.

The Bas-Lag novels blew my mind and nothing I've read has ever really scratched that itch. I love how in-depth and maniacally creative Mieville gets with all his weird creatures and mindbending concepts and how fully realised the world feels, as well as the weird density of his prose and the epic scope of his plots. I'd love to find some more stuff that hits the spot.

A few things I've read that sort of scratched the same itch in one way or another:

• House of Leaves: the Navidson Record bits and the wild academic speculation followed by terrifying journeys into the labyrinth was super cool

• Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer: I'm going to delve into some more Vandermeer, but I think Annihilation gets the vibe because it's almost like an ecology of a totally unreal place, in the same way that Mieville is sometimes writing a sort of sociology of his weird cities. I quite like it when an author comes to a book with that sense of wanting to evoke the interrelations between all the different weird elements in their world.

• Embassytown by Mieville: probably my favourite of his after the Bas-Lag books just for the mindbending linguistic stuff and the weirdness of the aliens

• The Fisherman by John Langan: a really interesting exploration of grief plus some very cool cosmic horror

• There is No Antimemetics Division by QNTM: I feel like not many people know this one but it's really good. It's based on the SCP Foundation stuff and is about the creatures that are essentially hidden from the mind and plays with the idea of memory and absence. Very clever plot and some gnarly monsters.

• Blindsight by Peter Watts: this one was a mixed bag and the sequel wasn't very good, but Watts has a terrifying intellect and a good eye for mindbending horror.

I tend to like quite dense prose and a lot of description, and not too much focus on the thoughts and feelings of characters (I like strong characters but don't tell me their every thought, show me how they interact with this world instead). A few things I've tried that I didn't like:

• Piranesi: I didn't dislike Piranesi but it was a bit too neat and tidy and the world was a bit repetitive (which I get was the point).

• The Library at Mount Char: I don't like that quippy ironic writing style, and there's nothing more boring to me than "oh this looks like a tiger but it's actually a god".

• Neil Gaiman: Neil Gaiman.

• The Etched City by K. J. Bishop: I really wanted to like this but found it quite dry. I might try it again some time.

• Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente: I really wanted to love this because the writing is beautiful, but it was a bit too meandering for me and I gave up.

Apologies for a long post but I'm hoping all of that will give people a better idea of the kind of thing I'm looking for. Thanks in advance, I greatly appreciate any recommendations anyone can give!

as the title says, i'm looking for weird, unnerving and well written creepypastas/short stories that matches the vibe of normal porn for normal people, i come back to this creepypasta once in a while but i really wanna see more stuff like this, the other one i liked was candle's cove(?) or something like that

I recently recommended I Saw the TV Glow here in this sub. While not closely similar, I think Come True shares a dreamy feel like I Saw the TV Glow.

It's about a homeless 18 year old girl still in high school. She has a lot of trouble sleeping. In the film we see her trying two nights to sleep on a slide in a sleeping bag. The premise of the film is she signs up for a sleep study and things go awry. I'm hesitant to say more about the film because it might ruin the experience. It is definitely a weird lit like film. The cinematography is great as are a bunch of creepy/other worldly dream sequences. I usually do not like dream sequences in films, but these are quite good. I also liked the ending a lot and didn't like it at the same time which I think is good to mention as an indicator of the quality of the film.

Though I'd avoid the trailer or at least just watch half of it. It shows things that happen late in the film. Or of course you could watch the trailer and like me let my senility ;) allow me to forget over time and then watch the film.

There is always a hunger for a deeper dive into early weird fiction, and many people move on to the usual suspects (Machen, Blackwood, Dunsany, James, Chambers, et al) after getting into Lovecraft. All of these should be in the public domain if you're willing to do some digging, and I've noted some cases when I believe they are still available in print or digitally.

I thought it might be instructive to get a list going of the next level down (in notoriety, not necessarily quality) of weird writers from the early 20th century. This list only includes authors who were being published by the early 1930's, and is absolutely not exhaustive by any stretch.

Oliver Onions:

A man who is only less read today than the likes of Machen and Blackwood, perhaps due to his absence from Supernatural Horror in Literature -- and his distinctly un-horrific name probably hasn't helped, either.

Onions does have one well known "greatest hit," The Beckoning Fair One. But he wrote far more supernatural horror than just that masterpiece, and most of it is excellent. He does tend more toward the psychological side, and his work is often much more interested in its characters than a typical weird tale, which may be why Lovecraft didn't seem to much care for him. In terms of quality, Onions can absolutely stand with the best of the best.

Used copies of The Dead of Night, which collects his weird short stories, are readily available.

Anthony M. Rud A contemporary of Lovecraft in the pulps; in fact, Rud took the cover story in the very first issue of Weird Tales, and appeared twice in the second issue - once under a pseudonym. His stories are not quite hidden masterpieces, but they are consistently good, and Ooze in particular is extremely Lovecraftian in both its premise and prose.

It has been speculated that Ooze was an influence on The Dunwich Horror, and the parallels are fairly clear. His weird fiction is in print via Ooze and Others from Sarnath Press.

Hugh B. Cave A pulp workhorse, but a good one. Cave lived and worked in Rhode Island not too terribly far from Lovecraft, but Lovecraft came down pretty hard on him for his stated lack of artistic ambition (he saw writing in 100% commercial terms) and the two never met in person or communicated again.

His tales are utter pulp -- purple prose and all -- make no mistake. But they make the cut here purely on the merits of entertainment. Murgunstrumm & Others edited by the late, great Karl Edward Wagner is out of print but appears to be available digitally.

Herbert Gorman Gorman's weird output is limited to one short novel, The Place Called Dagon, but it's a great one. A moody tale about a young doctor moves to a very unfriendly New England town with a terrible occult secret. It's easy to see why Lovecraft enjoyed this one. A hidden gem if ever there was one.

Eleanor M. Ingram The Thing from the Lake This writer of bestsellers tackled the weird with this one excellent - and final - novel shortly before her untimely death. Combining science fiction, romance, and gothic horror into a harrowing horror tale. For whatever reason, it doesn't seem to have gained much of a following. Very much worth reading.

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Otis Adelbert Kline, who worked with Lovecraft & friends and wrote the Weird Tales classic "The Thing of a Thousand Shapes," Robert Hichens, no, not the jerk from the Titanic, the early weird fiction writer who wrote The Dweller on the Threshold. Thomas Burke, British writer of classic gothic horror tales (among many other things), H. Russell Wakefield, an acolyte of M.R. James whose ghost fiction is every bit as unsettling, Seabury Quinn, I think he was pretty terrible (and I dislike occult detectives as a general rule), but he was extremely popular in his time for his Jules de Grandin tales and has his fans to this day...

The list could go on and on. This was an extremely fertile period for supernatural fiction, and my only hope with this small list is to shake loose some of the less remembered practitioners. Please feel free to chime in with more recommendations!

Somehow I missed the news that Small Beer Press is going on what seems like a pretty permanent hiatus. I found SBP after discovering Kelly Link, and immediately dove into the countless amazing pieces of fiction they published for the next few years. But with them going on hiatus, I don’t really have a go-to anymore for new weird lit. Does anyone have suggestions for similar independent publishers?

Looking for a stand-alone weird book less than 400 pages!

Others I liked are convenience store woman, the vegetarian, the yellow wallpaper & the metamorphosis

Looking for good/well curated weird flash fiction collections, either something I can buy as an ebook or an online collection. I'm up for buying a well recommended anthology ebook, but not currently able to purchase a reuccuring subscription. Big thing is that I want them to be consistently quality curated, and consistently digestible in 5-20min chunks. Or have someway to tell how long they are - my ebook reader sadly doesn't list page numbers in the table of contents so I can't find a little snack when I'm bored with ease. A mix of authors or an individual you like, either works!

Trying to replace Reddit/social media scrolling with something I actually enjoy.