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The Weird

The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories

anthology

edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer

Published: Corvus - trade paperback - 2011
ISBN: 1848876874 / 9781848876873

Corvus - e-book - 2011
eISBN: 0857894870 / 9780857894878
ASIN: B006E1A68K

Callisto Books - paperback - 2011
ISBN: 085740024X / 9780857400246

Tor Books - hardback - 2012
ISBN: 0765333600 / 9780765333605

Tor Books - trade paperback - 2012
ISBN: 0765333627 / 9780765333629

Tor Books - e-book - 2012
eISBN: 1466803193 / 9781466803190


contents
Introduction ( The Weird ) essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
'It's a Good Life' - short story by Jerome Bixby ( variant of It's a Good Life) ( 1953 )
A Child in the Bush of Ghosts - short story by Olympe Bhêly-Quénum ( aka Promenade dans la forêt 1949 ) ( translated by unknown )
A Redress for Andromeda ( Dandridge Cycle ) - short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan ( 2000 )
A Woman Seldom Found - short story by William Sansom ( 1956 )
Angels in Love - short story by Kathe Koja ( 1991 )
Bloodchild - novelette by Octavia E. Butler ( 1984 )
Casting the Runes- novelette by M. R. James ( 1911 )
Details- short story by China Miéville ( 2002 )
Don't Look Now - novelette by Daphne du Maurier ( 1970 )
Dust Enforcer - short fiction by Reza Negarestani ( 2008 )
Egnaro - novelette by M. John Harrison ( 1981 )
Family - short story by Joyce Carol Oates ( 1989 )
Far Below - short story by Robert Barbour Johnson ( 1939 )
Feeders and Eaters - short story by Neil Gaiman ( 2002 )
Flat Diane- novelette by Daniel Abraham ( 2004 )
Foreweird - essay by Michael Moorcock
Genius Loci - short story by Clark Ashton Smith ( 1933 )
His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood ( Cthulhu Mythos ) - short story by Poppy Z. Brite ( 1990 )
Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands - short story by Garry Kilworth ( 1987 )
How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles - short story by Lord Dunsany ( 1911 )
In the Hills, the Cities - novelette by Clive Barker ( 1994 )
It Only Comes Out at Night - short story by Dennis Etchison ( 1976 )
Last Rites and Resurrections - short story by Martin Simpson ( 1994 )
Little Lambs - short story by Stephen Graham Jones ( 2009 )
Mimic - short story by Donald A. Wollheim ( 1942 )
Mister Taylor - short story by Augusto Monterroso ( aka Mister Taylor 1954 ) ( translated by Larry Nolen )
My Mother - short story by Jamaica Kincaid ( 1983 )
Replacements - novelette by Lisa Tuttle ( 1992 )
Same Time, Same Place - short story by Mervyn Peake ( 1963 )
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass - short story by Bruno Schulz ( aka Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą 1937 ) ( translated by Celina Wieniewska 1967 )
Sandkings ( Thousand Worlds ) - novelette by George R. R. Martin ( 1979 )
Saving the Gleeful Horse - short story by K. J. Bishop ( 2010 )
Shades - novelette by Lucius Shepard ( 1987 )
Singing My Sister Down - short story by Margo Lanagan ( 2004 )
Smoke Ghost - short story by Fritz Leiber ( 1941 )
Soft - short story by F. Paul Wilson ( 1984 )
Tainaron: Mail from Another City - novella by Leena Krohn ( aka Tainaron: Postia toisesta kaupungista 1985 ) ( translated by Hiildi Hawkins 2004 )
The Autopsy - novella by Michael Shea ( 1980 )
The Beak Doctor - novella by Eric Basso ( 1977 )
The Beautiful Gelreesh - short story by Jeffrey Ford ( 2003 )
The Belonging Kind - short story by William Gibson and John Shirley ( 1981 )
The Book - short story by Margaret Irwin ( 1930 )
The Boy in the Tree -•novelette by Elizabeth Hand ( 1989 )
The Brood - short story by Ramsey Campbell ( 1980 )
The Brotherhood of Mutilation - novella by Brian Evenson ( 2003 )
The Cage • Ambergris - novelette by Jeff VanderMeer ( 2002 )
The Colomber - short story by Dino Buzzati ( aka Il Colombre 1961 ) ( translated by Gio Clairval )
The Complete Gentleman ( The Palm-Wine Drinkard ) - short fiction by Amos Tutuola ( 1952 )
The Country Doctor - short story by Steven Utley ( 1993 )
The Crowd - short story by Ray Bradbury ( 1943 )
The Dark - short story by Karen Joy Fowler ( 1991 )
The Delicate - short story by Jeffrey Ford ( 1994 )
The Diane Arbus Suicide Portfolio - short story by Marc Laidlaw ( 1993 )
The Discovery of Telenapota - short story by Premendra Mitra ( (প্রেমেন্দ্র মিত্র ) ( aka তেলেনাপোতা আবিষ্কার 1984 ) ( translated by P. Nandy )
The Dissection - short story by Georg Heym ( aka Die Sektion 1913 ) ( translated by Gio Clairval )
The Dunwich Horror ( Cthulhu Mythos )- novelette by H. P. Lovecraft ( 1929 )
The End of the Garden - short story by Michal Ajvaz ( aka Konec Zahrady 1991) ( translated by James Naughton 1994 )
The Familiars - short story by Micaela Morrissette ( 2009 )
The Forest - novelette by Laird Barron ( 2007 )
The Function of Dream Sleep - novelette by Harlan Ellison ( 1988 )
The Genius of Assassins: Three Dreams of Murder in the First Person - novelette by Michael Cisco ( variant of The Genius of Assassins ) ( 2002 )
The Ghoulbird •-short story by Claude Seignolle ( aka Le hupeur 1967 ) ( translated by Gio Clairval )
The God of Dark Laughter - short story by Michael Chabon ( 2001 )
The Hell Screen - novelette by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ( 芥川龍之介 ) ( aka 地獄変 1918 ) ( translated by Morinaka Akira )
The Hide -• short story by Liz Williams ( 2007 )
The Hospice - novelette by Robert Aickman ( 1975 )
The Howling Man - short story by Charles Beaumont ( 1959 )
The Hungry House - novelette by Robert Bloch ( 1951 )
The Hungry Stones - short story by Rabindranath Tagore ( রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর ) ( aka ক্ষুধিত পাষান 1895) ( translated by Mr. C. F. Andrews, with the author, Rev. E. J. Thompson, Panna Lal Basu, Prabhat Kumar Mukerji, and the Sister Nivedita 1916 )
The Ice Man - short story by Haruki Murakami ( 村上春樹 ) ( aka 氷男 1991 ) ( translated by Philip Gabriel 2006 )
The Lion's Den - novelette by Steve Duffy ( 2009 )
The Little Dirty Girl - novelette by Joanna Russ ( 1982 )
The Long Sheet - short story by William Sansom ( 1941 )
The Mainz Psalter - novelette by Jean Ray ( aka Le psautier de Mayence 1931 ) ( translated by Lowell Blair 1965 )
The Man in the Black Suit - short story by Stephen King ( 1994 )
The Man in the Bottle - short story by Gustav Meyrink ( aka Der Mann auf der Flasche 1904) ( translated by unknown 1973 )
The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles - short story by Margaret St. Clair ( 1951 )
The Meat Garden - short story by Craig Padawer ( 1996 )
The New Rays - short story by M. John Harrison ( 1982 )
The Night Wire - short story by H. F. Arnold ( 1926 )
The Ocean and All Its Devices - novelette by William Browning Spencer ( 1994 )
The Other Side ( excerpt ) - short fiction by Alfred Kubin
The Other Side of the Mountain - novella by Michel Bernanos ( aka La montagne morte de la vie 1967 ) ( translated by Gio Clairval 2011 )
The People of the Pit - short story by A. Merritt ( 1918 )
The People on the Island - short story by T. M. Wright ( 2005 )
The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr. ( 1976 )
The Salamander - short story by Mercè Rodoreda ( aka La salamandra 1967 ) ( translated by Martha Tennent )
The Screaming Skull - novelette by F. Marion Crawford ( 1908 )
The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be - short story by Gahan Wilson ( 1967 )
The Shadowy Street - novelette by Jean Ray ( aka La ruelle ténébreuse 1932 ) ( translated by Lowell Blair 1965 )
The Snow Pavilion - short story by Angela Carter ( 1995 )
The Specialist's Hat- short story by Kelly Link ( 1998 )
The Spider - novelette by Hans Heinz Ewers ( aka Die Spinne 1908 ) ( translated by Walter F. Kohn 1915 )
The Stiff and the Stile - short story by Stepan Chapman ( 1997 )
The Summer People - short story by Shirley Jackson ( 1950 )
The Tarn - short story by Hugh Walpole ( 1923 )
The Town Manager - short story by Thomas Ligotti ( 2003 )
The Town of Cats - short story by Hagiwara Sakutarō ( 萩原朔太郎 ) ( aka 猫町 1935 ) ( translated by Jeffrey Angles 2008 )
The Vegetable Man - short story by Luigi Ugolini ( aka L'uomo vegetale 1917 ) ( translated by Brendan & Anna Connell )
The White Hands - short story by Mark Samuels ( 2003 )
The White Wyrak - short story by Stefan Grabiński ( aka Biały Wyrak ( Gawęda kominiarska ) 1921 ) ( translated by Miroslaw Lipinski )
The Willows - novella by Algernon Blackwood ( 1907 )
Unseen - Unfeared - short story by Francis Stevens ( 1919 )
White Rabbits - short story by Leonora Carrington ( 1941 )
Window - short story by Bob Leman ( 1980 )
Worlds That Flourish • short story by Ben Okri ( 1998 )
Yellow and Red - short story by Tanith Lee ( variant of Yellow & Red ) ( 1998 )
In the Penal Colony - novelette by Franz Kafka ( aka In der Strafkolonie 1919 ) ( translated by Ian Johnston 2003 )
The Aleph - short story by Jorge Luis Borges ( aka El Aleph 1945) ( translated by Andrew Hurley 1998 )
Axolotl - short story by Julio Cortázar ( aka Axolotl 1956 ) ( translated by Gio Clairval )
Afterweird: The Efficacy of a Worm-Eaten Dictionary - essay by China Miéville

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