The New Weird Subgenre, Explained
Works of speculative fiction and horror tend to be viewed as somehow inherently less than more grounded genres of literature. The ongoing project of the genre tends to be reinventing itself every generation. This process has gone on for centuries, and the latest example of post-modernism applied to genre fiction has been dubbed the New Weird movement. Broadly speaking, a lot of elements of fantasy and science fiction stories are very old....