“Weird fiction,” a term popularized by H. P. Lovecraft, became a self-serious genre during the twentieth century and the first years of this one.* In the hands of Samuel R. Delany, China Miéville, and ...

There might be no contemporary writer operating on a weirder wavelength than Jeff VanderMeer. With his wife, the sci-fi and fantasy editor Ann VanderMeer, he compiled the fiction anthologies “The ...

Few novelists are as adept at inspiring both horror and awe as Jeff VanderMeer. The author is perhaps best known for his award-winning Southern Reach series, of which the first three ...

Annihilation, the best sci-fi of 2018 Annihilation, has bewildered and impressed audiences in equal measure. Its hybrid handling of an emotional and narratively complex story isn’t for everyone – its ...

Edited by Simon Strantzas and Michael Kelly. Undertow, $19.99 trade paper (382p) ISBN 978-0-9950949-1-8 The uneven third volume in this annual series positions “weird fiction” closer to horror than ...