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* WebOriginal/TheBackrooms is a New Weird take on the AscendedGlitch, being an EldritchLocation anyone can wind up in if they noclip out of proper reality. Depending on the interpretation, it's comprised entirely of a single "building" reminiscent of an empty office space, it's a series of "levels", each with [[RealityIsOutToLunch their own twist on reality]] and full of {{Humanoid Abomination}}s.

* The Website/SCPFoundation is about building an entire [[TheVerse 'Verse]] at the intersection of MagicalRealism, UrbanFantasy, Hard science fiction, BizarroFiction, and CosmicHorror. The community is especially fond of inverting and deconstructing even the most [[SacredCow sacred]] of classic genre tropes... but also reconstructs those same tropes with a fresh spin that makes the reader see them in an entirely new light.

* ''Series/RussianDoll'': The series is a MindScrew-y BlackComedy / Drama following a woman trapped in a timeloop, reviving her birthday every time she dies. Reasons for why the time travelling shennanigans happen are never explained or given reason, they simply happen and characters have to deal with their existence. While the series relies on this high-concept for its premise, it's also a sobre character study about a woman's struggle dealing with the trauma her mother left behind. Season 2 continues this premise with more unexplained time shenanigans (this time, she learns that taking a certain train transports her into her mother's contiiousness in 1982), and she has to come to terms with her family's history.

** Set in the same continuity of ''Chasing the Moon'', "Literature/PizzaMadness" is about a pizza delivery boy who slowly goes insane during his time delivering pizzas, treating his job as though it were a holy mission and eventually killing a coworker for his "special orders". It's revealed that the "special orders" as pizza boxes with {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that Vom the Hungerer eats on a daily basis in order to keep balance in the universe.

* The Website/RPCAuthority is along the same lines as the SCP Foundation. It was created by a number of the Foundation’s original members who wished to revisit its horror roots.

* ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' by Creator/MarkZDanielewski is about Johnny Truant, writing about the mysterious death of a film critic named Zampaño, reviewing a FoundFootage movie called ''The Navidson Record'', supposedly based on a true story about a family whose [[EldritchLocation house]] grows into a renegade labyrinth, which does not exist (and yet has a pernicious influence on every level of the narrative) and may or may not also be the World Tree and/or a book called ''[[RecursiveReality House of Leaves]]''.

* ''Literature/{{Atlan}}' and its sequels' by Jane Gaskell. An ur-example. While not exactly postmodern, these novels, published between 1965 and 1977, paint a Theosophy-derived setting with a Gothic brush, resulting in a perilous journey through a [[EldritchLocation truly otherworldly]] LostWorld.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure''. The powers of the setting are strange manifestations of PsychicPowers, often with niche and counterintuitive abilities that can still prove deadly in practice, backstory that involves [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Vampires]], ancient gods, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs ancient gods who are vampires]], and SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, most of which are wholly irrelevant to the plot of any given part. The AlternateContinuity SBR Universe takes it up a notch, averting NoSuchThingAsWizardJesus by having his corpse able to grant specific psychic powers, rock formations and fruits that can fuse souls, and unexplained rock people as well as their pets.

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* WebOriginal/TheBackrooms is a New Weird take on the AscendedGlitch, being an EldritchLocation anyone can wind up in if they noclip out of proper reality. Of course it's comprised entirely of abandoned apartment buildings and office space full of {{Humanoid Abomination}}s.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure''. The powers of the setting are strange manifestations of PyschicPowers, often with niche and counterintuitive abilities that can still prove deadly in practice, backstory that involves [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Vampires]], ancient gods, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs ancient gods who are vampires]], and SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, most of which are wholly irrelevant to the plot of any given part. The AlternateContinuity SBR Universe takes it up a notch, averting NoSuchThingAsWizardJesus by having his corpse able to grant specific psychic powers, rock formations and fruits that can fuse souls, and unexplained rock people as well as their pets.

* In ''Literature/ChasingTheMoon'', Diana finds herself tricked into being the Warden of an EldritchAbomination with a bottomless appetite when she moves into a new apartment. After managing to escape from what would have been lifelong imprisonment in her new apartment, she finds that she is now between realities. This means she sees the world for what it really is, meaning she sees monsters of all kinds everywhere, learns how to [[RealityWarper temporarily alter reality to her own whims]], winds up collecting monsters as though they were Franchise/{{Pokemon}} and lives in an ApartmentComplex that works as a CosmicKeystone opening portals to other worlds. While the novel has a lot of {{Cosmic Horror|Story}} elements to it, the book is ultimately a ComicFantasy that takes tropes associated with the genre -- {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, the {{Cult}}s that worship them, {{Eldritch Location}}s, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation mankind's inability to cope with the true unknowable scope of the universe]] -- and deconstructs them in a way that makes it more comically absurd than dread-inspiring.

* ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}'': The setting of the games is a varied mix of heavy industrial aspects of DieselPunk and the cultural spirtuallity of Native Americans and/or Australian Aborigines overtones. With ''VideoGame/OddworldStrangersWrath'' being an obvious [[WeirdWest weird western]] inspired story based in the most furthest western part of the Mudos continent.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure''. The powers of the setting are strange manifestations of PyschicPowers, often with niche and counterintuitive abilities that can still prove deadly in practice, backstory that involves [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Vampires]], ancient gods, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs ancient gods who are vampires]], and SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, most of which are wholly irrelevant to the plot of any given part. The AlternateContinuity SBR Universe takes it up a notch, averting NoSuchThingAsWizardJesus by having his corpse able to grant specific psychic powers, rock formations and fruits that can fuse souls, and unexplained rock people as well as their pets.

* Arguably, ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''.

* ''Literature/{{Borne}}'', and its prequel comic ''The Situation'', by Creator/JeffVanderMeer are set in a city where the tropes of cyberpunk are given an organic twist with animal- and insect-based BioTech, such as censor slugs that filter their wearer's perceptions, rabbits that serve as employee files, and memory beetles.

* Jeffery Thomas's'Literature/{{Punktown}} books are an odd mix of sci-fi and horror. Set in the future on another planet, often featuring {{Mutant}} private-eye Jeremy Stake, to deal with the fall-out by crazy Lovecraftian technology gone wrong.

* ''Literature/LegendsOfTheRedSun'' was one of the final works in the genre before the genre's crash in late 2000s. With a nod to the ''Literature/BookOfTheNewSun'' series, it's set on a near-Medieval far-future Earth that's facing an apocalyptic Ice Age. Then it faces danger from an AlienInvasion and it's revealed that magic actually exists as do ghosts.

* Mervyn Peake's Literature/{{Gormenghast}} sequence served as major inspiration and ur-example.

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* ''Literature/GoingBovine'' - While the author might not have written in this genre on purpose, the book refuses to have a discernible spot on the [[Analysis/SpeculativeFiction Sliding Scale Of Science Fiction Vs Fantasy]] and makes mention of dark matter, multiple universes, angels, and gods.

* Jay Lake's ''Literature/{{Mainspring}}'' and subsequent novels in the ''Clockwork Earth'' setting, takes place on a clock punk Earth where God and his angels exist and have created the Earth as a giant clock that needs a bit of rewinding and other maintenance issues.

* ''Literature/{{Atlan}}'' by Jane Gaskell. An ur-example. While not exactly postmodern, these 1960s novels. (the last book, ''Some Summer Lands'', was published in 1977) paint a Theosophy-derived setting with a Gothic brush, resulting in a perilous journey through a [[EldritchLocation truly otherworldly]] LostWorld.

* Ann and Creator/JeffVanderMeer, the latter of whom wrote''Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy'', have an online magazine ''[[http://weirdfictionreview.com Weird Fiction Review]]'' that only reviews works of this genre.

* ''Literature/{{Ambergris}}'' series by Creator/Jeff VanderMeer are a mix of horror, ScienceFiction and, later, police procedural set after an invasion by [[PlantAliens fungoid aliens]], the Fanaarcensitii (aka Gray Cap). Once our mushroom overlords take over, society and law enforcement change.

* ''Literature/{{Ambergris}}'' series by Creator/Jeff VanderMeery stories are a mix of horror, ScienceFiction and, later, police procedural set after an invasion by [[PlantAliens fungoid aliens]], the Fanaarcensitii (aka Gray Cap). Once our mushroom overlords take over, society and law enforcement change.

* Mervyn Peake's Literature/{{Gormenghast Titus Groan}} sequence served as major inspiration and ur-example.

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* Mervyn Peake's Literature/{{Gormenghast Titus Groan)) sequence served as major inspiration and ur-example.

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* ''Literature/{{Atlan}}'' by Jane Gaskell. An ur-example. While not exactly postmodern, these 1960s novels. (the last book, ''Some Summer Lands'', was published in 1977) paint a Theosophically derived setting with a Gothic brush, resulting in a perilous journey through a [[EldritchLocation truly otherworldly]] LostWorld.