May I rec Henry Dumas? He's not well known because he was killed young, but I found his writing compelling and hallucinatory in a somewhat Inner Worlds way.

Ark of Bones was republished in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora ed @shereereneethomas.bsky.social

Yes! Thank you, his work sounds fascinating (and I am def trying to correct my under-reading through the rest of the 20th century, it's just extremely stark in the 1920s)

'Separation in the Evening', 1922, Paul Klee

Whyyy is it so beautiful, I can't even explain.

Yes! There are a handful I listen to but just skip the first 10 minutes

I'll finish up with a favourite poem from my favourite poet: this dork, who managed to write some total bangers in the 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, and 1930s as well as the 1920s.

'Sailing to Byzantium' by WB Yeats: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43291/...

Devastated to discover that my favourite H.D. poem ('Eurydice') was published in 1917 and thus must be excluded from this Things I Like From the 1920s thread :'-(

But here, take 'Lethe' from 1924: poets.org/poem/lethe

Poems! Two more Harlem Renaissance writers:

'Joy in the Woods', 1922 I think, by Claude McKay www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52982/...

'The Negro Speaks of Rivers', 1921, by Langston Hughes www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/444

I did want to mention Zora Neale Hurston's short stories though, which are superb, include some weird/supernatural elements, and several were first published in the 1920s. I read them collected in 'Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick'

Back, after a short lunch break :-) I'm aware this list is heckin white, and that's because I have under-read the work of black writers in this period, something I am gradually correcting.

One of the collections I love the best is 'Uncanny Stories' 1923 by May Sinclair, which is available via Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59165

But please see also: Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Bowen, Eleanor Scott, Marjorie Bowen, Helen Simpson...

I could do (and probably have done) a whole thread about 1920s and 1930s weird/uncanny/supernatural stories by women because they are one of my favourite things.

"It was not beauty at all that she wanted… Her mind was groping after something that eluded her experience, a something that was shadowy and menacing, and yet in some way congenial."