There is a rich and wide
world of fiction waiting to be discovered and one of the recently mined veins
on the English market comes from Northern Europe. The Swedish John Ajvide Lindqvist and Karin Tidbeck, the Icelandic Snorri Kristjansson or the Finnish Hannu Rajaniemi and Leena Krohn are some of the names
popping into mind at a first call, while titles such as “Let the Right One In”, “Jagannath”
or Desirina Boskovich’s anthology of
Finnish speculative fiction, “It Came
from the North”, gave the readers the opportunity to explore Northern
Europe’s genre fiction. Another chance to dig within this abundant vein of
speculative fiction is offered now through “Finnish
Weird”, a free publication dedicated, as the title clearly states, to the
Finnish weird fiction. There are plenty to be found in “Finnish Weird”, an
introduction by Johanna Sinisalo, a
description of the Finnish weird by Jussi
K. Niemelä, a presentation of the writers Emmi Itäranta, Tiina
Raevaara and Jenny Kangasvuo and
two short stories, “Gordon’s Story”
by Tiina Raevaara and “Flow My Tears,
Fall from Your Springs!” by Jenny Kangasvuo. So, if you want to whet your
appetite for Finnish weird fiction you can head over to the publication’s website and download a copy of it in either PDF or Epub format.
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