New Weird
English
Etymology
From new + weird (fiction), attributed to M. John Harrison (2002).
Noun
New Weird (uncountable)
- A literary genre that began in the 1990s, influenced by horror and speculative fiction, but often crossing genre boundaries.
- Coordinate term: slipstream
- 2016, Ken Gelder, editor, New Directions in Popular Fiction, Springer, →ISBN, page 184:
- The most detailed response to Harrison's set of questions came from Stephanie Swainston, an author who has described New Weird fiction as exercises in world building characterised by a heterogeneity of sources, genres and details.
Usage notes
Sometimes applied to works in other media sharing similar characteristics, such as video games or films.
Further reading
New weird on Wikipedia.Wikipedia