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Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Weird fiction either eschews or radically reinterprets ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and other traditional antagonists of supernatural horror fiction. Writers on the subject of weird fiction, such as China Miéville, sometimes use "the tentacle" to represent this type of writing. The tentacle is a limb-type absent from most of the monsters of European folklore and gothic fiction, but often attached to the monstrous creatures created by weird fiction writers, such as William Hope Hodgson, M. R. James, Clark Ashton Smith, and H. P. Lovecraft. Weird fiction often attempts to inspire awe as well as fear in response to its fictional creations, causing commentators like Miéville to paraphrase Goethe in saying that weird fiction evokes a sense of the numinous. Although "weird fiction" has been chiefly used as a historical description for works through the 1930s, it experienced a resurgence in the 1980s and 1990s, under the label of New Weird, which continues into the 21st century. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Negative Space
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Italian way of cooking. Pizza mostri e mandolino
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The Core of the Sun
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The Weird
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Kraken
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Occultation and Other Stories
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The City & the City
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The Scar
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Perdido Street Station
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Out of the Aeons
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The Horror in the Museum
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The Electric Executioner
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The Wendigo
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The Willows
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The Shambler from the Stars
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Italian way of cooking
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