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A brief history of the weird girl fiction trend, including must-read titles, where to find more weird girl lit, and what's next for the subgenre.
If this summer has been for the jam girls, fall is going to be all about the weirdos. The post 14 Weird Girl Fiction Listens appeared first on Penguin Random House Audio.
The title of Jaclyn Desforges’s new book of short fiction, Weird Babies, is absolutely appropriate. These stories are about childhood and motherhood, and they are strange. Strange...
This vacation carries a terrible curse... The post A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing: Nadia Bulkin’s “Things to Know Before You Go” appeared first on Reactor.
For our next long-read, we're revisiting a classic that explores the line between human and animal The post Inner Beasts and Outer Humans: H.G. Wells’ <i>The Island of Doctor...
As we journey through the weird wonderland that was L. Frank Baum’s 1901 Dot and Tot in Merryland, we come to the Valley of Wind-Up Toys. And you know what that means...
If you can use some WTF premises in your reading life, these books range from crime novels to thrillers, with horror and sci-fi sprinkled in.
In which Pendrick discovers still more unsettling red flags... The post One-Star Hospitality Strikes Back: H.G. Wells’ <i>The Island of Doctor Moreau</i> (Part 3) appea...
Anthropic introduces watermarks, journalists test AI-detection, and Claude generates a novel about writing a novel with Claude.
Ihaka Lecture Series 2026 Abstract Data analysis is about finding the stories hidden in the mass of information that make up a data set. Usually we are interested in understanding...
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches....
Horror becomes even more unsettling with the format is unique–especially because survival is not a given.
(1) BREVITY. Ancillary Review of Books presents “Gernsback’s Grandchildren; or, A History Of The Hugo Awards In Seventy Sentences” by William Shaw. “A poem composed of one sentence...
 "Neither his face nor his lips moved when he laughed. It was more a plague of laughter than the sound of it; a pervasion of the hearer's mind by hypnotic disease."A boy discovers...
When I was little I was sure my grandmother’s 1800s rural farmhouse was haunted, but I wasn’t sure if the ghosts were there to scare us or help us. Wanting to make my friendly inte...
(1) BUTLER BOOK IS BACK. The Huntington in Pasadena, CA will host “Reading Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Lost’ Novel” on September 2 from 6-8 p.m. Attendees will be able to get Butler’s Sur...
Drawing much of his material from the annals of both the Nobel Prize and its real (much funnier) offspring, the Ig Nobel Prizes, Kallen dishes up a lively, if sometimes also revolt...
A young woman investigates her mother’s disappearance at an abandoned Nevada observatory. The post Read an Excerpt From <i>Observer</i> by Nicholas Russell appeared fir...
Who said that? The narrators of these five great sci-fi and fantasy books are not the usual suspects!
A memorable pseudobiographical portrait of the artist as a traumatized child. The post Horror Writers Have the Worst Dreams: Marly Youmans’ “The Child and the Night Gaunts” appeare...
It's hard to stay out of trouble when everyone around you is a rage-filled nutjob... The post Shipwrecked Yet Again: H.G. Wells’ <i>The Island of Doctor Moreau</i> (Par...
(1) ALPHA AND OMEGA MEN. “The Man Who Saw Humanity From Two Billion Years Away” – Olaf Stapledon is profiled in The MIT Press Reader. … Stapledon’s imagination is profuse. He can b...
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