Weird House

Enter a haunting world of cosmic terror, gothic mystery, and supernatural suspense in this classic collection featuring The Last Test, The Shunned House, and Landor’s Cottage by H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe...

So consider this your permission slip to leave Boston for the day and go looking for the strange stuff. Pack comfortable shoes, bring a jacket even if the weather report is smugly optimistic, assume parking will be weird, and never trust a historic town that looks too pretty. In New England, the cuter the street, the higher the chance someone nearby is selling ghost-tour tickets. The road out of Boston does not lead away from history. It leads deeper into it — past witches, writers, mill workers, murder legends, sea captains, philosophers, soldiers, inventors, rich people with ...

Canals, crooked houses, hidden churches, floating cats, tulip madness, and enough bicycles to make you question your life choices. Welcome to Weird Amsterdam. This is not your typical Amsterdam travel guide. It is a funny, story-driven journey through one of Europe's most fascinating cities, where medieval engineering, bizarre history, secret places, and wonderfully strange traditions hide around nearly every canal corner. Walk from Amsterdam Centraal Station into a city that somehow stands on millions of wooden piles driven into swampy ground. Discover why houses lean at impossible angles,...

China Miéville doesn’t follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writer—and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire field—with Embassytown, Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping...

A magnificent city existing on the ringes of the past, and on the brink of destruction, Viriconium Available to American readers for the first time, this landmark collection gathers four groundbreaking fantasy classics from the acclaimed author of Light. Set in the imagined city of Viriconium...

A mythmaker of the highest order, China Miéville has emblazoned the fantasy novel with fresh language, startling images, and stunning originality. Set in the same sprawling world of Miéville’s Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel, Perdido Street Station, this latest epic introduces a whole...

Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Miéville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzon—this time, decades later. It is a time of...

On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one’s death and the other’s glory. But no matter how spectacular it is, Sham can't...

With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police...

If you think Chicago is weird, just wait until you leave the city. Weird Day Trips from Chicago is a funny and fascinating travel guide to the strangest places you can reach from the Windy City in a day or a long weekend. From the Home Alone house in Winnetka to the Bahá’í Temple in Wilmette, from the Leaning Tower of Niles to Route 66 giants, haunted streets, prison walls, movie cars, giant mailboxes, and dunes hiding futuristic World’s Fair homes, this book takes you far beyond the usual “nice little getaway.” Inside, you’ll discover weird roadside attractions, haunted towns, ...

In the deepest, darkest depths of space, the stars are cold, malevolent eyes looking across a vast graveyard of the unknown, the unnameable, and the undead. Here the planets are tombs and the moons haunted catacombs. And here are extraterrestrial nightmares beyond imagining. There is no benevolent first contact. No utopian worlds. Only alien horrors.

Outlaws chase silver. Cults summon gods. The desert takes the rest... Imagine taking Sergio Leone, Bone Tomahawk, Blood Meridian, DUNE, Mad Max, and Hellraiser, throwing them in a blender, and seasoning the dish with Seth Hobbs' signature worldbuilding. You might get a glimpse of the dark epic that awaits you. Haggins "Hard Bargain" Daggerbie is a notorious train robber with a pitch-black past. To cross a merciless wasteland and reach the Far West Coast, he and his gang of hardened criminals must embed themselves as scouts within a massive army expedition led by the ruthless Colonel Pathus....

Poisoned. Shot. Attacked. Left for dead. And still moving. On a freezing night in 1916, a group of Russian aristocrats attempt to eliminate the one man they believe is destroying their empire: Grigori Rasputin — the mystic who bewitched the royal family and terrified the nobility. But killing him turns out to be far more complicated than anyone expected. Told with sharp wit and cinematic tension, this 5,000-word short story drops you straight into the chaos of Rasputin’s final night. No long biography. No slow buildup. Just the unbelievable events as they unfolded moment by moment, ...

The Erstwhile brings readers back to the singular world and mind of B. Catling, continuing the groundbreaking storytelling of his hit The Vorrh. In London and Germany, strange beings are reanimating themselves. They are the Erstwhile, the angels that failed to protect the Tree of Knowledge, and...

Enter a chilling collection of classic weird fiction where gothic terror, strange fantasy, and supernatural mystery collide. Featuring unforgettable tales by Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, this volume brings together haunted houses, uncanny journeys, and creeping dread from the golden age...

From the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 2026 Can you sever a shadow? Can you outswim the rising tide? A monitor lizard in Borneo tries to convince a boy not to kill a mafia boss. An American scam artist and an aspiring K-pop star fall in love - without ever seeing...

A thriller of war that never was—of survival in an impossible city—of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new...

Bear witness to the ghosts and dark gods of Motor City, revealed by the light of a fiery cityscape. It’s the night before Halloween and Detroit is burning in a celebration of arson and vandalism.

A New Collection of True Ghost Stories from England and Elsewhere. Where might you find a ghost? In many a place, if these stories are to be believed: from historic properties to the humblest of homes; churches, bridges, pubs and roads, not to mention a fish and chip shop. And then how to explain a vanishing car, a hat, or a hotel? Mysteries aplenty, whereas solutions are few. Each of the stories in this collection was freely volunteered for inclusion by members of the ‘Personal Ghost Stories’ Facebook group, with the events which they relate stated to have involved the contributor ...

In this humorous contemporary fantasy, Terry wakes up to discover that during the night, he's grown a fine fur pelt on his back. His girlfriend loves it, but what will the neighbors think? And is Terry sure he really needs a pelt? What's a poor furboy to do?