The Weird
A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
Published on 31. October 2011
1152 pages
978-0-85789-487-8 (ISBN)
Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS
A landmark, eclectic, leviathan-sized anthology of fiction's wilder, stranger, darker shores.
The Weird features an all star cast of authors, from classics to international bestsellers to prize winners:
Ben Okri
George R.R. Martin
Angela Carter
Kelly Link
Franz Kafka
China Mieville
Clive Barker
Haruki Murakami
M.R. James
Neil Gaiman
Mervyn Peake
Michael Chabon
Stephen King
Daphne Du Maurier
and more...
Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities; You will find the boldest and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled.
A landmark, eclectic, leviathan-sized anthology of fiction's wilder, stranger, darker shores.
The Weird features an all star cast of authors, from classics to international bestsellers to prize winners:
Ben Okri
George R.R. Martin
Angela Carter
Kelly Link
Franz Kafka
China Mieville
Clive Barker
Haruki Murakami
M.R. James
Neil Gaiman
Mervyn Peake
Michael Chabon
Stephen King
Daphne Du Maurier
and more...
Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities; You will find the boldest and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Atlantic Books
File size
2,63 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-85789-487-8 (9780857894878)
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10/2011
Corvus
€63.33
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Persons
THE WEIRD has been compiled by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Ann is the Hugo Award-winning editor of Weird Tales magazine (founded 1923) and has worked with her husband Jeff on the World Fantasy Award-winning Leviathan series of anthologies as well as on the genre-defining anthologies The New Weird and Steampunk. Jeff's novel Finch (Corvus 2010) is currently shortlisted for the Hugo and Locus awards.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreweird
- Introduction
- The Other Side (excerpt)
- The Screaming Skull
- The Willows
- Sredni Vashtar
- Casting the Runes
- How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles
- The Man in the Bottle
- The Dissection
- The Spider
- The Hungry Stones
- The Vegetable Man
- The People of the Pit
- The Hell Screen
- Unseen - Unfeared
- In the Penal Colony
- The White Wyrak
- The Night Wire
- The Dunwich Horror
- The Book
- The Mainz Psalter
- The Shadowy Street
- Genius Loci
- The Town of Cats
- The Tarn
- Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
- Far Below
- Smoke Ghost
- White Rabbits
- Mimic
- The Crowd
- The Long Sheet
- The Aleph
- A Child in the Bush of Ghosts
- The Summer People
- The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles
- The Hungry House
- The Complete Gentleman
- 'It's a Good Life'
- Mister Taylor
- Axolotl
- A Woman Seldom Found
- The Howling Man
- Same Time, Same Place
- The Colomber
- The Other Side of the Mountain
- The Salamander
- The Ghoulbird
- The Sea Was Wet As Wet Could Be
- Don't Look Now
- The Hospice
- It Only Comes Out at Night
- The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats
- The Beak Doctor
- My Mother
- Sandkings
- Window
- The Brood
- The Autopsy
- The Belonging Kind
- Egnaro
- The Little Dirty Girl
- The New Rays
- The Discovery of Telenapota
- Soft
- Bloodchild
- In the Hills, the Cities
- Tainaron: Mail From Another City
- Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands
- Shades
- The Function of Dream Sleep
- Worlds That Flourish
- The Boy in the Tree
- Family
- His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood
- The End of the Garden
- The Dark
- Angels in Love
- The Ice Man
- Replacements
- The Diane Arbus Suicide Portfolio
- The Country Doctor
- Last Rites and Resurrections
- The Ocean and All Its Devices
- The Delicate
- The Man in the Black Suit
- The Snow Pavilion
- The Meat Garden
- The Stiff and the Stile
- Yellow and Red
- The Specialist's Hat
- A Redress for Andromeda
- The God of Dark Laughter
- Details
- The Genius of Assassins
- Feeders and Eaters
- The Cage
- The Beautiful Gelreesh
- The Town Manager
- The Brotherhood of Mutilation
- The White Hands
- Flat Diane
- Singing My Sister Down
- The People on the Island
- The Forest
- The Hide
- Dust Enforcer
- The Familiars
- The Lion's Den
- Little Lambs
- Saving the Gleeful Horse
- Afterweird
- Acknowledgments
- Extended Copyrights
