weird fiction

Weird fiction is a literary genre that blends horror, fantasy, and science fiction while emphasizing atmosphere and cosmic dread over conventional scares.

The term gained currency through early 20th-century writers like H.P.

Lovecraft, who used it to describe stories that evoke a sense of the strange and unknowable rather than relying on ghosts or monsters from traditional horror.

Weird fiction often suggests that reality itself is unstable or that humanity occupies an insignificant place in an indifferent universe.