Weird fiction
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Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Weird fiction either eschews or radically reinterprets traditional antagonists of supernatural
M. R. James, c. 1900
H. P. Lovecraft, pictured in 1934
China Miéville
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China Tom Miéville is a British speculative fiction writer and literary critic. He often describes his work as "weird fiction", and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called New W
Weird fiction
…traditional antagonists of supernatural horror fiction, such as ghosts, vampires, and werewolves. Writers on the subject of weird fiction, such as China Miéville, sometimes use "the tentacle" to represent this type of writing. The tentacle is a limb-type absent from most of the monsters of European Gothic fiction…
Miéville at Utopiales (2010)
Miéville just after winning the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2010