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Please feel free to nominate up to two good, weird fiction books by or before October 15 you would want to read and discuss with other weird fiction aficionados for November's group read. Nominees should not be solely by an author if we have read another novel of that same author this year.

Ah! I didn't reveive a notification about this, which is happening more frequently for some reason. Perhaps there's been some kind of update on the site which has... disrupted things. I'll nominate something later today!

I nominate The Fisherman by John Langan and, if you accept the aforementioned first revisit, Zothique: The Final Cycle by Clark Ashton Smith <3

Great nominations, Nicolai! Since I'm the only one (I think) who tried to read Zothique when it was on offer, and I was new to weird fiction and didn't know how to appreciate the work properly, I'd be happy to see it win again. I have a copy of the Langan book sitting on my shelf unread. People either love or hate that one. There's little middle ground.

I am going to nominate Offbeat: Uncollected Stories by Richard Matheson.

I also nominate The Late Breakfasters and Other Strange Stories by Robert Aickman.

These are two men who wrote weird in that period from 1953-1983 when weird went on hiatus, so was generally called something else. My favorite woman writing weird in this era was Angela Carter, but most of her work is long out of print and little of her best writing is being republished. These three wrote (mainly) what I think of as transitional-to-modern weird fiction. There are a dozen others I could mention as well. It's an interesting period.