Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s big top of weird wonders has premiered! Your one-stop shop for weird in all its stripes, colors, shapes, and textures, from comics and interviews to fiction and reviews. This is the hub the wheel of weird revolves around, the bale-eyed brain and source of all things tentacular. Check out the bottomless goodie bag of round tables, exclusives, podcasts, and previews, and stop by my translation of Belgian horror writer Thomas Owen’s story “Kavar the Rat” now in print for the first time after its podcast debut at Pseudopod!
The cauldron bubbleth over: there will be “new content on WFR every week day through the end of the year, excluding holiday weeks, and then to either continue on a daily basis or post discrete “issues” of the site. Keep the broth abrew, and hit that PayPal button while you’re at it: the site is currently running on donations only. I am proud to announce that I will joining the site as a regular guest columnist, so please feed us weirdlings! Don’t let us go hungry! A ha’penny will do! (If you haven’t got a ha’penny then C-thul-hu!)
Next week’s features include:
—An extended excerpt from China Mieville’s afterword to The Weird
—Three features on Alfred Kubin, the first author in The Weird, two by Paul Smith
—The next episode of Leah Thomas’s web comic and an interview with the creator
—An exclusive feature from Jim Kelly and John Kessel on their Kafkaesque antho
–Interviews with Thomas Ligotti and Margo Lanagan
–Video coverage of the extraordinary Cute & Creepy art show
–Fiction from Jeffrey Thomas: “The Fork”
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