Episode 115 - New Weird

This episode we’re talking about New Weird Fiction! Strap in, because we spend a lot of time discussing what this genre even is (or if it exists at all!). We talk about whether a genre needs more than two authors to be a genre, how to describe books in which the plot is not the point, “capital W” Weird vs “lowercase w” weird, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read

• The Etched City by KJ Bishop
• The Vorrh by Brian Catling
• Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
• Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
• Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
• The Blood of Angels by Johanna Sinisalo
• The Broken Hours by Jacqueline Baker
• Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Yawhg - Friday Night Spooktacular Visual Novel Stream (Watch Matthew, Meghan, RJ, and Amanda play!)
• • The Yawhg
• A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832–1937: Disgust, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror by Jonathan Newell
• Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Reply All podcast
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito
• Are You Afraid of the Dark? (Wikipedia)
• Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• She Walks in Shadows edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles
• Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy by Transgender Authors edited by Casey Plett and Cat Fitzpatrick
• • Download a PDF free (and legal!)
• British Library’s Tales of the Weird
• King City by Brandon Graham
• Prophet, Volume 1: Remission by a bunch of people
• Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• • The Horror at Red Hook (Wikipedia)
• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Joh...