LORE Chats with Barry Longyear
FROM THE ORIGINAL LORE ARCHIVES In this recovered 2011 LORE interview, Barry B. Longyear talks about writing, voice, Enemy Mine, the Civil War, publishing and what success really…
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Weird Fiction,
Cosmic Horror
& Dark Literature
LORE Online is a literary home for weird fiction, cosmic horror, Gothic fiction, dark fantasy and the writers who shaped the strange. Explore unsettling stories, literary criticism, forgotten magazine history and the darker corners of the imagination.
A literary portal for the strange and uncanny
Where the weird tradition lives on.
From supernatural tales and haunted landscapes to cosmic dread and visionary speculative fiction, LORE Online explores literature that refuses to stay within ordinary boundaries. The site also preserves the cultural footprint of the historic LORE Magazine and the writers, interviews and ideas connected with it.
What is weird fiction?
Stories from the borderlands of reality 👁️
Weird fiction is less a rigid genre than a literary territory. It can contain horror, fantasy, science fiction, folklore and the supernatural, but its most memorable stories tend to create a sense that reality is larger, stranger and less stable than we thought.
Writers in the weird tradition often focus on impossible places, ancient forces, uncanny transformations, forbidden knowledge and the uneasy feeling that human beings understand only a tiny part of the universe around them.
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🕯️ Weird Fiction
Stories that blur the boundaries between horror, fantasy and the inexplicable.
🌑 Cosmic horror
When the universe itself becomes frightening
Cosmic horror shifts fear away from the familiar monster and toward something much larger: the possibility that the universe is indifferent, incomprehensible and filled with realities the human mind was never meant to understand.
LORE Online will trace the genre through classic stories, literary criticism, modern writers, strange creatures, forbidden books and the philosophical ideas behind the fear of the unknown.
Writers
Authors of the strange
From the LORE archive
A magazine with roots in the weird tradition 📖
LORE Magazine emerged in the 1990s as a home for dark, imaginative and often Lovecraft-influenced fiction. Its history includes original stories, interviews, essays and later online features connected with authors and critics from the wider worlds of horror, fantasy and speculative literature.
LORE Online is rebuilding that historical map carefully, preserving context and creating new original resources around the same subjects.
🕸️ The archive is awakening
Recovered subjects, new scholarship
Some of LORE Online’s most valuable historical links still point to old features about Lovecraft, literary criticism and writers such as Thomas Ligotti. Rather than erase those traces, the new LORE is rebuilding relevant pages with fresh editorial work, source notes and clear historical context.
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Robert M. Price’s MOLDY MANUSCRIPTS vol. 02
25FROM THE ORIGINAL LORE ARCHIVES Originally published September 2, 2011. In the second installment of Moldy Manuscripts, Robert M. Price opens a cabinet of Poe-related curiosities: Donald R.…
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Jeffrey Thomas Reviews William Peter Blatty’s “Dimiter”
FROM THE ORIGINAL LORE ARCHIVES Originally published July 15, 2011. In this recovered LORE review, author Jeffrey Thomas considers William Peter Blatty’s Dimiter — a novel of mystery,…
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Robert M. Price’s MOLDY MANUSCRIPTS vol. 01
FROM THE ORIGINAL LORE ARCHIVES The beginning of Robert M. Price’s MOLDY MANUSCRIPTS series. This recovered 2011 LORE feature introduced a simple but valuable idea: bring hard-to-find Lovecraftian…
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FOCUS ON THE FANTASTIC: LORE Artist of the Month M. Wayne Miller
FROM THE ORIGINAL LORE ARCHIVES LORE’s first Artist of the Month feature introduced illustrator M. Wayne Miller, whose history with the magazine stretched back to the 1990s. Miller…
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LORE Online is an independent modern literary website inspired by the documented history and subject matter associated with the former LORE Magazine and lore-online.com. It explores weird fiction, cosmic horror, Gothic literature, dark fantasy, literary history and the writers who inhabit those traditions.
Where historic LORE material is discussed, the site distinguishes archival facts from newly written editorial content. Original texts are not republished unless the necessary rights are known to be available.