![]() China Miéville defines weird fiction thus: Weird Fiction is usually, roughly, conceived of as a rather breathless and generically slippery macabre fiction, a dark fantastic (horror plus fantasy ) often featuring nontraditional alien monsters (thus plus science fiction ).ĭiscussing the Old Weird Fiction published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock says, Old Weird fiction utilises elements of horror, science fiction and fantasy to showcase the impotence and insignificance of human beings within a much larger universe populated by often malign powers and forces that greatly exceed the human capacities to understand or control them. John Clute defines weird fiction as a Term used loosely to describe Fantasy, Supernatural Fiction and Horror tales embodying transgressive material. ![]() Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ![]()
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