Talk:Weird fiction

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Redirect[edit]

...should "weird fiction" not redirect more to fantasy rather than horror ? (i'm coming from the The_Scar page, and China Mieville is much more Fantasy-inspired/orientated rather than horror...)

I agree, this is not a helpful redirect. I'll start a weird fiction stub. --Junius49 (talk) 14:34, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Weird Fiction Authors[edit]

I've just added 'Frank Belknap Long' and 'Brian Lumley' to the list. There are probably quite a few other notable weird fiction authors that should be included. Incidentally: there seems to be no particular ordering in this list - it needs to be arranged alphabetically...Ericlord (talk) 09:50, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

IMO, what the article needs is more discusion of what wierd fiction is and it's importance, not just a useless list of authors getting longer and longer. I revert uncited additions to the list on sight, especially modern authors who write standard horror (eg Lumley).Yobmod (talk) 10:18, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

China Miéville has an essay on "Weird Fiction" in the book The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009, edited by Mark Bould , Andrew M. Butler , Adam Roberts, and Sherryl Vint) , where Mieville gives a rough definition of "Weird Fiction": "If considered at all, Weird Fiction is usually, roughly, conceived of as a rather breathless and generically slippery macabre fiction, a dark fantastic (“horror” plus “fantasy”) often featuring nontraditional alien monsters (thus plus “science fiction”). Though particularly associated with the pulp magazine Weird Tales, the stop-start existence of which began in 1923, classic Weird Fiction predates it: S.T. Joshi (1990) plausibly treats its high phase as 1880–1940. It has had a colossal impact across work in all media, with under-investigated generically problematizing implications. " This article might a good source for discussion of what "Weird Fiction" is. 188.141.25.160 (talk) 14:52, 26 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I also think we shouldn't have writers on the WF list unless they are either mentioned in the article text, or have a RS identifying them as writing "weird fiction" (since when were James Joyce or J. R. R. Tolkien identified as "weird fiction" writers? 188.141.25.160 (talk) 18:49, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Source for Sheridan Le Fanu usage of the term "weird"[edit]

I think this statement should be referenced: "H. P. Lovecraft adopted the term from Sheridan Le Fanu" I can't find the source of this statement. ¿Where did Sheridan Le Fanu used the term weird tale or weird fiction? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bernardjleman (talk • contribs) 20:25, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Too many unreferenced authors in 1980-present list[edit]

The bulk of this section has no references justifying the author being on the list, which makes this subsection look like Original Research.

I've already removed one author - Iain Banks - as I could find no reliable sources to support his inclusion. I've tagged the section for now, in the hope that other Wikipedians can supply references to reliable sources where appropriate, but I will come back and remove more names later. H. Carver (talk) 01:59, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, I've removed Stijn Moreels as there are no sources besides their Goodreads profile. It also seems to be self-promotion. Delukiel (talk) 11:48, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Main picture is terrible for this article[edit]

Why does this main picture for weird fiction have to be a screenshot from a high fantasy game? Can’t we do better? 2600:1700:CD30:3950:BC71:31F7:5D11:C917 (talk) 07:49, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You're talking about the image used as a header for {{Fantasy}}; there is no lead image within this article. You may wish to bring up changing it at Template talk:Fantasy, as we can't change it here.--Ineffablebookkeeper (talk) ({{ping}} me!) 13:11, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]