Weird Fiction
Back to people overviewWeird Fiction is closely associated with the pulp magazine Weird Tales during its heyday of the 1920s and 1930s.
Writers such as H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard published work in Weird Tales that resisted easy categorisation into neat genres, blending Gothic horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy into compelling new Storyworlds that remain influential in the twenty-first century.
‘Weird’ as an adjective is now applied loosely to any work across media that has a similarly inventive and difficult-to-categorise approach to genre.
Image: Cover for Sandy Peterson’s Call of Cthulhu (1981) ©Chaosium, Inc. Image Courtesy of Ex Carta
