English Explanatory Dictionary

New Weird

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A literary genre that began in the 1990s, influenced by horror and speculative fiction, but often crossing genre boundaries.

Word forms

New Weird

Etymology

From new + weird (fiction), attributed to M. John Harrison (2002).

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