Weird Fiction - Notable Authors and Collections

Notable Authors and Collections

The following notable authors have been described as writers of weird fiction:

  • Ambrose Bierce
  • Algernon Blackwood
  • Walter de la Mare
  • E. R. Eddison
  • C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  • L. P. Hartley
  • William Hope Hodgson
  • Robert E. Howard
  • Shirley Jackson
  • T. E. D. Klein
  • Thomas Ligotti
  • H. P. Lovecraft
  • Oliver Onions
  • M. P. Shiel
  • Clark Ashton Smith

The 2012 anthology of weird fiction of the 20th and 21st century, The Weird by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, aims to provide, through the 110 stories, novellas and short novels it includes, a comprehensive definition of "the Weird". An earlier anthology by the same editors, The New Weird (ISBN 978-1892391551), focuses on the more recent New Weird.

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