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From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature.

Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled.

The Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon.

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Table of Contents:

• Foreweird - (2011) - essay by Michael Moorcock
• Introduction - (2011) - essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
• The Other Side (excerpt) - (2011) - short fiction by Alfred Kubin
• The Screaming Skull - (1908) - novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• The Willows - (1907) - novella by Algernon Blackwood
• Sredni Vashtar - (1910) - short story by Saki
• Casting the Runes - (1911) - novelette by M. R. James
• How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles - (1911) - short story by Lord Dunsany
• The Man in the Bottle - (1973) - short story by Gustav Meyrink
• The Dissection - (2011) - short story by Georg Heym
• The Spider - (1915) - novelette by Hanns Heinz Ewers
• The Hungry Stones - (1916) - short story by Rabindranath Tagore
• The Vegetable Man - (2011) - short story by Luigi Ugolini
• The People of the Pit - (1918) - short story by A. Merritt
• The Hell Screen - (2011) - novelette by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
• Unseen--Unfeared - (1919) - short story by Francis Stevens
• In the Penal Colony - (2003) - novelette by Franz Kafka
• The White Wyrak - (1993) - short story by Stefan Grabinski
• The Night Wire - (1926) - short story by H. F. Arnold
• The Dunwich Horror - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1929) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Book - (1930) - short story by Margaret Irwin
• The Mainz Psalter - (1965) - novelette by Jean Ray
• The Shadowy Street - (1965) - novelette by Jean Ray
• Genius Loci - (1933) - short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Town of Cats - (2008) - short story by Hagiwara Sakutaro
• The Tarn - (1923) - short story by Hugh Walpole
• Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass - (1967) - short story by Bruno Schulz
• Far Below - (1939) - short story by Robert Barbour Johnson
• Smoke Ghost - (1941) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• White Rabbits - (1941) - short story by Leonora Carrington
• Mimic - (1942) - short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• The Crowd - (1943) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Long Sheet - (1941) - short story by William Sansom
• The Aleph - (1998) - short story by Jorge Luis Borges
• A Child in the Bush of Ghosts - short story by Olympe Bhêly-Quénum
• The Summer People - (1950) - short story by Shirley Jackson
• The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles - (1951) - short story by Margaret St. Clair
• The Hungry House - (1951) - novelette by Robert Bloch
• The Complete Gentleman - [The Palm-Wine Drinkard] - (1952) - short fiction by Amos Tutuola
• It's a Good Life - (1953) - short story by Jerome Bixby
• Mister Taylor - (2011) - short story by Augusto Monterroso
• Axolotl - (2011) - short story by Julio Cortázar
• A Woman Seldom Found - (1956) - short story by William Sansom
• The Howling Man - (1959) - short story by Charles Beaumont
• Same Time, Same Place - (1963) - short story by Mervyn Peake
• The Colomber - (2011) - short story by Dino Buzzati
• The Other Side of the Mountain - (2011) - novella by Michel Bernanos
• The Salamander - (2011) - short story by Mercè Rodoreda
• The Ghoulbird - (2011) - short story by Claude Seignolle
• The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be - (1967) - short story by Gahan Wilson
• Don't Look Now - (1970) - novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• The Hospice - (1975) - novelette by Robert Aickman
• It Only Comes Out at Night - (1976) - short story by Dennis Etchison
• The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats - (1976) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• The Beak Doctor - (1977) - novella by Eric Basso
• My Mother - (1983) - short story by Jamaica Kincaid
• Sandkings - [Thousand Worlds] - (1979) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• Window - (1980) - short story by Bob Leman
• The Brood - (1980) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• The Autopsy - (1980) - novella by Michael Shea
• The Belonging Kind - (1981) - short story by William Gibson and John Shirley
• Egnaro - (1981) - novelette by M. John Harrison
• The Little Dirty Girl - (1982) - novelette by Joanna Russ
• The New Rays - (1982) - short story by M. John Harrison
• The Discovery of Telenapota - (1984) - short story by Premendra Mitra
• Soft - (1984) - short story by F. Paul Wilson
• Bloodchild - (1984) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
• In the Hills, the Cities - (1984) - novelette by Clive Barker
• Tainaron: Mail from Another City - (2004) - novella by Leena Krohn
• Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands - (1987) - short story by Garry Kilworth
• Shades - (1987) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• The Function of Dream Sleep - (1988) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Worlds That Flourish - (1988) - short story by Ben Okri
• The Boy in the Tree - (1989) - novelette by Elizabeth Hand
• Family - (1989) - short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1990) - short story by Poppy Z. Brite
• The End of the Garden - (1994) - short story by Michal Ajvaz
• The Dark - (1991) - short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• Angels in Love - (1991) - short story by Kathe Koja
• Replacements - (1992) - novelette by Lisa Tuttle
• The Diane Arbus Suicide Portfolio - (1993) - short story by Marc Laidlaw
• The Country Doctor - (1993) - short story by Steven Utley
• Last Rites and Resurrections - (1994) - short story by Martin Simpson
• The Ocean and All Its Devices - (1994) - novelette by William Browning Spencer
• The Delicate - (1994) - short story by Jeffrey Ford
• The Man in the Black Suit - (1994) - short story by Stephen King
• The Snow Pavilion - (1995) - short story by Angela Carter
• The Meat Garden - (1996) - short story by Craig Padawer
• The Stiff and the Stile - (1997) - short story by Stepan Chapman
• Yellow and Red - (1998) - short story by Tanith Lee
• The Specialist's Hat - (1998) - short story by Kelly Link
• A Redress for Andromeda - [Dandridge Cycle] - (2000) - short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• The God of Dark Laughter - (2001) - short story by Michael Chabon
• Details - (2002) - short story by China Miéville
• The Genius of Assassins: Three Dreams of Murder in the First Person - (2002) - novelette by Michael Cisco
• Feeders and Eaters - (2002) - short story by Neil Gaiman
• The Cage - [Ambergris] - (2002) - novelette by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Beautiful Gelreesh - (2003) - short story by Jeffrey Ford
• The Town Manager - (2003) - short story by Thomas Ligotti
• The Brotherhood of Mutilation - (2003) - novella by Brian Evenson
• The White Hands - (2003) - short story by Mark Samuels
• Flat Diane - (2004) - novelette by Daniel Abraham
• Singing My Sister Down - (2004) - short story by Margo Lanagan
• The People on the Island - (2005) - short story by T. M. Wright
• The Forest - (2007) - novelette by Laird Barron
• The Hide - (2007) - short story by Liz Williams
• Dust Enforcer - (2008) - short fiction by Reza Negarestani
• The Familiars - (2009) - short story by Micaela Morrissette
• The Lion's Den - (2009) - novelette by Steve Duffy
• Little Lambs - (2009) - short story by Stephen Graham Jones
• Saving the Gleeful Horse - (2010) - short story by K. J. Bishop
• Afterweird: The Efficacy of a Worm-Eaten Dictionary - (2011) - essay by China Miéville

Copyright © 2011 by Jeff VanderMeer

Copyright © 2011 by Ann VanderMeer

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