A free public reference-and-reading institution for the weird fiction field
A free public reference and reading institution devoted to weird fiction. We do not sell listings.
The Reading Room holds works of weird fiction that have entered the United States public domain. The Card Catalog records authors and works across the field, including those the Library does not yet hold. Listings are editorial and unpaid.
Weird Tales, founded in 1923, is the American pulp magazine that named and first sustained the weird tale as a genre.
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Reading Room
Read bizarre literature in the public domain
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Card Catalog
Cataloging the prophets of the strange, the authors of the unique and odd.
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Front Desk
Curated reading paths into the field.
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The Stacks Are Opening
Public-domain schedule, year by year.
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Periodicals Desk
Magazines, presses, and the rest of the field.
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Founders’ Room
Humans and other creatures.
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Two canoeists on the Danube enter a willow landscape that does not behave as landscape should. First published in The Listener and Other Stories (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1907). H. P. Lovecraft, in “Supernatural Horror in Literature” (1927), called it the finest weird tale in English.
Reading Room hours Open. No ticket. Texts: United States public domain.