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weird fiction

subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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weird fiction

Summary

weird fiction is a speculative fiction genre[1]. It draws 728 Wikipedia views per month (speculative_fiction_genre category, ranking #8 of 21).[2]

Key Facts

  • weird fiction's image is recorded as Weird Tales October 1934.jpg[3].
  • weird fiction's instance of is recorded as speculative fiction genre[4].
  • weird fiction's subclass of is recorded as speculative fiction[5].
  • weird fiction's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0466nvx[6].
  • weird fiction's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Weird fiction[7].
  • weird fiction's Quora topic ID is recorded as Weird-Fiction-1[8].
  • weird fiction's Fancyclopedia 3 ID is recorded as Weird_fiction[9].
  • weird fiction's The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID is recorded as weird_fiction[10].

Why It Matters

weird fiction draws 728 Wikipedia views per month (speculative_fiction_genre category, ranking #8 of 21).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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