Contemporary weird fiction reading list

A chart of New Weird books and other bizarre, unsettling, and uncanny literature published in the last 30 years or so. This is a follow-up to my previous chart of classic weird fiction and another selection from my list of over 200 works of weird literature.

Goodnight out there, whatever you are.

im always thinking about these interactions from the weird (1988)

Dennis Bardens - Mysterious Worlds: a Personal Investigation of the Weird, the Uncanny, and the Unexplained - Cowles - 1970 (jacket design by Robert Cuevas)

Bernie Wrightson and Dan Green - The Weird #1 Splash Page 1 Original Art (DC, 1988) Source

Cancelled show - Inside Job for AD recs?

Okay, if I'm looking at the right show... Two Flat Earthers Kidnap a Freemason, I think. The premise being, well. Two flat earthers kidnap a freemason. It's very well put together, completely ridiculous, and has a surprising number of recognisable voices in it.

I'd also recommend two comedy-horror tabletop podcasts following members of government departments investigating supernatural shit in the 1990s: The Strewth is Out There, set in Australia, and The Weird, set in the US.

Rolando por Insurgentes.

Blue Beetle and the Justice League versus the Weird by Jim Starlin

The Weird #1

by Jim Starlin; Bernie Wrightson; Dan Green; Michelle Wrightson and Todd Klein

DC

As I begin my new Wednesday video spot of Weird Wednesdays, I want to make sure that I’m not stuck only covering cryptids but all sorts of weird things. Though paranormal or supernatural phenomenon cannot literally be quantified in a skeptical scientific way, they do hold ethnological, anthropological, and culture value. On top of that, there are some phenomena that can be picked apart to find a real-world explanation. Most cryptids are flesh and blood animals that people witness, rather than spooky-ooky apparitions that don’t make sense based on the world in which we live. UFOs straddle the line between the bizarre parts of the natural and supernatural and therefore offer quite a bit of meat for us to sink our fangs into. With that out of the way, let’s delve into one of the most famous UFO stories that gifted UFO nut and skeptic alike some of the best photographic proof of the existence of UFOs.

Mermay line art

Classic weird fiction reading list

A chart of recommended strange, disturbing, and unsettling books published before 1990. This is a selection from my list of over 200 works of weird literature that I published on my website.

Goodnight out there, whatever you are.

The Weird entered the mainstream DC universe from another Deminsion and formed his body in issue 1# of The Weird, cover date April, 1988. Besides the Weird (Walter Langley), the issue also introduced Jason Morgan, Billy Langley, and Eva Langley. They were created by Jim Starlin and Bernie Wrightson. ("Conception", The Weird 1#, DC comic, Event)

The Weird is a horror/comedy actual play podcast created by three non-binary dorks that's like The Magnus Archives But Funny, The X-Files But Worse, and Gravity Falls But Essentially The Same. Join agents Hal Bishop and Ash Delaney as they solve cases for the Department of Weird (a subdivision of the Department of Transportation), take on terrors unusual and mundane, discover secrets, tell lies, form bonds, sing some Dolly Parton, and hopefully not get murdered by demons. (They will probably get murdered by demons).

Chapter 3 of “EXTRAMUNDANE” is Live!

Cryptids HATE them! Learn this government agent’s ONE WEIRD TRICK for avoiding getting kidnapped and murdered by a mysterious forest monster!

Listen wherever you obtain your podcasts and also right here!