"The New Weird is a literary genre that began in the 1990s and developed in a series of novels and stories published from 2001 to 2005. The writers involved are mostly novelists who are considered to be parts of the horror and/or speculative fiction genres but who often cross genre boundaries. Notable authors include China Mi\u00E9ville, Jeff VanderMeer,K. J. Bishop and Steph Swainston."@en .