“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 ...

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 ...

When the work began to build Boston’s first subway in 1895, laborers digging the tunnel under Tremont Street made a grisly discovery: human remains, and lots of them. So many that, according to writer ...