Weird Fiction

Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is sometimes said to encompass the ghost story and other tales of the macabre, but may it may be more accurate to say that it has evolved from earlier gothic tales of this sort. Weird fiction is distinguished from horror and fantasy in its blending of supernatural, mythical, and even scientific tropes. British authors who have embraced this style have often published their work in mainstream literary magazines even after American pulp magazines became popular.

Authors

 * Charles Beaumont
 * Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?)
 * An Inhabitant of Carcosa


 * Algernon Blackwood


 * Robert Bloch


 * Ray Bradbury


 * Robert W. Chambers
 * The King in Yellow 
 *  The Maker of Moons 


 * Walter de la Mare


 * August Derleth (1909 - 1971)


 * Lord Dunsany
 * Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
 * Robert E.Howard (1906 - 1936)
 * Shirley Jackson
 * M.R. James (1862 - 1936)
 * Fritz Lieber
 * H.P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937)
 * The Call of Cthulhu
 * Arthur Machen (1863 - 1947)
 * The Great God Pan
 * Edgar Allan Poe
 * Sax Rohmer
 * Brood of the Witch-Queen
 * Clark Ashton Smith (1893 - 1961)
 * The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis
 * Henry S. Whitehead
 * The Passing of a God