Brave New Weird Volume Two (The Best New Weird Horror)

The World is Weird.

You will be discouraged from participating in it.

However, your participation is not optional.

Zip up your human suit and set sail, imbibing every perspective you can

in order to perfect the persona.

Push to the outer edges. Document your travels, and forget to return.

There will be a test.

Learn what it means to be human.

Forget what it means to be human.

Learn what it means to be human.

Forget what it means to be human.

Do not panic.

BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror, Volume Two encompasses the finest Weird speculative fiction published in (roughly) 2023. Edited by Alex Woodroe.

Table of contents:

Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas - Lullaby for the Unseen

Thomas Ha - In That Crumbling Home

Hussani Abdulrahim - The Library Virus

Patrick Malka - Show Me

Eirik Gumeny - A Balanced Breakfast

David Simmons - Food is Poison

Premee Mohamed - Quietus

Perfect Kiss Strickoll - punctum (o baked alaska for you i am a former american)

LC von Hessen - Transmasc of the Red Death

Simone le Roux - The Man Outside

KS Walker - River Bargain Baby

M.M. Olivas - The Prince of Oakland

Amitha Jagannath Knight - My Mother, The Exoskeleton

Rachael K. Jones - The Sound of Children Screaming

Judith Shadford - Endless Yearning

Daniel DeRock - Guest Opinion: We must take action regarding the [REDACTED] High School janitor

Geneve Flynn - A Box of Hair and Nail

Anemone Moss - Everything You Dump Here Ends Up in the Ocean

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez - Up In the Hills, She Dreams of Her Daughter Deep In the Ground

Elena Sichrovsky - Embryo

Ivan Zoric - Our Roots Will Dry Out in the End

Michael Bettendorf - As the Music Plays Groovy

Chris Kuriata - Family Not Going To Heaven

Alex Woodroe is a Romanian writer of dark speculative fiction and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated editor-in-chief of Tenebrous Press. She’ s the author of Whisperwood, The Night Ship, and Tatratea, and has several short stories and articles published in venues such as Nightmare Magazine and the Nosleep podcast. Alex lives in the heart of the Transylvanian region of Romania.