Sad Marsh Ghost

Weird fiction is becoming a business with a lot of people's money involved. Can anybody think of a large scale small press fiction movement with such a dedicated following? Can anybody even think of another current large scale small press fiction movement!?

The term weird fiction is practically meaningless at this point. When the New Weird happened anything with a supernatural or fantasy element was lumped in arbitrarily. I still have no idea how half of that stuff counted. Since then the tide has turned and weird fiction simply means 'cosmic horror' in the eyes of most.

The only reason I employ the term 'weird fiction' in conversation is that it saves time I could spend more accurately conveying the fiction I'm talking about in an impressionistic portmanteau expressing the nigh ineffable mood I chase in fiction – best exemplified by masters such as Aickman or Saki, including in their non-supernatural or non-horror stories.