Reddit reviews The New Weird

Steven Erikson's Tales from the Malazan Book of the Fallen lured me back to fantasy, after many, many years of ignoring the genre. I had gotten tired of the same old clichés, but Erikson has me hooked. "Gardens of the Moon", the first book in the series (though each can be read as a standalaone novel), is intriguingly complex, and Erikson really delivers in the rest of the series. Highly complex, realistic and fantastic at the same time.

China Mieville's Bas-Lag novels also stand out, particularly "Perdido Street Station".
You could also try the "New Weird" authors, this anthology has some really fine stuff.

Ann and Jeff VanderMeer did a pair of anthologies, The New Weird and The Weird that are a good place, I think, to start.

The New Weird is, like a lot of "subgenres", a marketing gimmick. There's nothing notably different or consistent about the stories, it's not a movement. Weird fiction has always been that grey area where genres collide, elements of horror, fantasy, science fiction. There's nothing particularly different about stuff in collections like the VanderMeers' The New Weird, except that the writers are generally of a newer generation...and even that's iffy, because the generational aspect of things turns over. There are certain folks that work together, publish together, collaborate, etc. but it's not the folks in that anthology.

The New Weird edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer

A collection of stories in the "weird fiction" genre. If you like China Mieville, Jeff Vandermeer, Kelly Link, etc, you'll love this anthology.

http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Weird-Ann-VanderMeer/dp/1892391554/ref=sr_1_2

Have you gotten the New Weird anthology that Jeff and Ann VanderMeer did? I haven't read it per se', but I've read a couple of the things included in it elsewhere, and I've read most of the authors' included in it.

I've read this in an anthology, within the last year, but I can't remember which anthology. I thought it was in New Weird but none of those ring a bell.