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Weird Fiction – How Weird is this Weird Genre?

Weird Fiction – How Weird is this Weird Genre?

Novels have always followed a structure – there is a cause, and then follows the outcome. If it’s romance, the cause is the shenanigans of the protagonists, with the outcome being their happily-ever-after romance. Or if it’s a mystery, the cause happens to be a character-specific conflict, with a nail-biting mystery as its effect. But there exists a genre that doesn’t exactly follow the structure. Instead, it clubs together genres like fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and speculative fiction to create the strangest characters existing in the wackiest plots. Very aptly, it is also called weird fiction! What is Weird Fiction? Weird…
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