What is weird fiction?

Screenshot from the video game "Mutazione".

Stories that are haunted and dreamlike, often set in the midwest or around the Rust Belt of North America. Magical realism, surreal imagery, and non-standard story structure combine to make a strange yet poignant aesthetic. Things are just a little bit off-kilter, everything is familiar and yet poetically out of place. A road trip through the unknown and often deeply satirical of the human experience.

Examples of weird fiction (video games, audio dramas, TV, books, comics)

The Magnus Archives

Welcome to Night Vale

SPINES Podcast

Old Gods of Appalachia

Night in the Woods

Kentucky Route Zero

Mutazione

Twin Peaks

Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink

Paper Girls (TV Series)

Paper Girls (comic) by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Cliff Chiang