Spanish weird fiction (seeking recommendations)

[Malone]

I'm wondering is there any (particularly material contemporaneous with the French Decadent era), and has any of it been translated into English, useless monoglot that I am. Thanks in advance.

[Ibrahim]

A lot of the Weird written in spanish doesn't get categorized as such, because of Borges & because of the blight of magical realism (which is really a kind of Weird-Lite, let's face it). But it doesn't get a lot weirder than the stories of Julio Cortazár, i think. Borges himself, of course, basically writes weird tales. Some of Roberto Bolano's short pieces come recommended, weird or not. One of them, an essay, a rant, really, is titled "Mitos de Cthulhu" and is a merciless takedown of commercial Spanish literature. Read 2666. It's not weird, but it's relentlessly dark.
Alphonse Bécquer is a Spanish Poe/Victor Hugo type figure, wrote a bunch of ghost stories, not too decadent, more romantic i guess.
Well, sorry for basically not answering your question...

Horacio Quiroga.

[MadsPLP]

Not necessarily weird, but certainly dark, paranoid and obsessive:
Adolfo Bioy Casares' Morel's Invention is a masterpiece.

[waffles]

The short stories of Julio Cortazar.

[miguel1984]

Morel's Invention is indeed a masterpiece. I agree about Horacio Quiroga.

I also recommend The Seven Madmen and The Flame-Throwers by Roberto Arlt and Report on the Blind, part of the novel On Heroes and Tombs, by Ernesto Sábato.

[Ibrahim]

Oh, of course. Bioy Casares, la invencion de Morel, which i am in the middle of rereading, in fact. Don't know how i forgot.

[Hieronimo]

Ramón del Valle-Inclan might be worth looking at - decadent and strange rather than weird - see Autumn and Winter Sonatas (Dedalus): 'decadent in every sense of the word - interweaves death, sex and religion... these are novellas built on shifting ground - the erotic moves between the grotesque, the beautiful, the absurd - and that is precisely what gives them their strange, potent charm' (back cover blurb)

[Hideous Name]

Consecrated authors like Francisco Tario, Amparo Davila and Juan Jose Arreola.

Most recent authors like Alberto Chimal, Bernardo Esquinca, Luis Jorge Boone and Mauricio Montiel Figueiras

José Donoso wrote an incredibly dark magical realist novel called The Obscene Bird of Night. It's fantastic.