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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

The Weirdness Reading Challenge

The Weirdness Reading Challenge

What is it with The Weird? I know that Lovecraft was weird, and before him there was Clark Ashton Smith and Arthur Machen. There was the magazine Weird Tales which sounds like it should have been weird. Jeff and Anne VanderMeer have published an 1100 page anthology of The Weird, and I've read their definition of it -- several times. But I'm still not sure I get it. And now to further complicate things, there is The New Weird.

So this year I am going to read as much weird ficition as I can find.

The Wikipedia entry on Weird Fiction lists over 50 weird writers, and there is the table of contents from the VanderMeer's book with right at 100. There is also the e-jounal Weird Fiction Review, where you can read interviews with current weird -- or I guess that should be "New Weird" practictioners and get leads to many new publications. Weirdness seems to find its natural home in short stories more so than novels, so if you sign up for a year of weirdness, expect to read a lot of collections and anthologies.

There is now a sub-genre heading for Weird in Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy. I have begun to label titles. Be sure to add the subgenre label to whatever you read if it is not already there. And remember that any book or writer not currentlly in the WWEnd database can be added. Make your requests through the "Can't Find the Book You Want" forum.

Let The Weirdness begin.

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: January 2023 – December 2023

Reading Levels
Select your reading level below. You can adjust your level up or down at any time during the challenge.

 Resident of Arkham = 3 books + 1 reviews
 Student of Miskatonic = 6 books + 2 reviews
 Worshipper of Dagon = 9 books + 3 reviews
 High Priest of Cthulhu = 12 books + 6 reviews

Note: You must be a logged in member of WWEnd to join this challenge. Join WWEnd

charlesdee

charlesdee

12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

The Ballad of Perilous Graves
The Employees
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
finminer

finminer

The Book of Accidents
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Out of Space and Time: Volume II
The Turn of the Screw
Uncle Silas
The Woman in the Dunes
The World We Make
5
4
3
2
1
Hneite

Hneite

Five Children and It
Grail
Harrow the Ninth
Hothouse / The Long Afternoon of Earth
Involution Ocean
Lapvona:  A Novel
Light From Uncommon Stars
Or What You Will
Perelandra
Temporary
The Two Doctors Górski
When Women Were Dragons
niriop

niriop

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
ScoLgo

ScoLgo

Crackpot Palace
The Jennifer Morgue
John Dies at the End
Scott Laz

Scott Laz

The Divinity Student
The End of the Story
The Golem
The Silverberg Business
2
1
thereddeath

thereddeath

Against the Day
Comfort Me With Apples
A Dead Djinn in Cairo
The Haunting of Tram Car 015
We Are All Completely Fine
7
6
5
4
3
2
1