In the early stages of his career, Tallahassee, Fla.-based writer Jeff VanderMeer was something of a cult figure. While his ...

None of VanderMeer’s novels is easy to categorize, but many fall within the tradition of weird fiction, a genre that combines elements of fantasy and science fiction while trafficking in the ...

You’ve reached your account maximum for followed topics. In the 1990s, a new genre of fiction emerged in the realm of literature: The New Weird. The New Weird was considered the next step up ...

But “Harry Potter” fan fiction writers love to wonder what Harry would be like if he had ended up in Slytherin. The idea is ripe with story line ideas. Snape as Harry's Head of House can lead ...

Eventually he tried Tartarus Press, a small independent imprint specialising in weird fiction. "When Tartarus emailed me, having read the manuscript, to say 'Yes', it was a very strange moment ...

Since publishing Annihilation and the subsequent Southern Reach novels, VanderMeer has become a poster child for fiction ...