New Weird en · NOUN
Etymology
From new + weird (fiction), attributed to M. John Harrison (2002).
Meanings
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(uncountable) A literary genre that began in the 1990s, influenced by horror and speculative fiction, but often crossing genre boundaries.
The most detailed response to Harrison's set of questions came from Stephanie Swainston, an author who has described New Weird fiction as exercises in world building characterised by a heterogeneity of sources, genres and details.
2016, Ken Gelder, editor, New Directions in Popular Fiction, Springer, →ISBN, page 184: