Weird Fiction discussion

Nominations are open for the October 2020 group read. It is Contemporary Weird Fiction's turn. We consider anything written in the last 30 years (so 1990 and forward) contemporary.

There has been a schism of sort in recent Weird, I've come to realize. You have the VanderMeer school, call it New Weird, prominent in the 1990s and early 2000s typified by Mieville and Cisco type works that take place on often unnamed worlds other than ours. And you have the even more contemporary Weird type fiction written mostly in the last decade which does take place in our world, but with a few changes. This is typified I'd say by Laben's work (the author we just read), Boskovitch, and most of the authors in the last ten years worth of Weird Tales, especially Victor LaValle. Nominating a work from either branch is okay for our purposes.

I will start the nominations with Monsters of L.A. by Lisa Morton. For the bewitching month of October I thought it would be fun to read updates of our favorite monsters in a new setting.