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Author: Jeff VanderMeer Book Format: ebook Original Title: The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories Number Of Pages: 1152 pages First Published in: November 1st 2010 Latest Edition: January 24th 2012 Language: English Awards: Locus Award Nominee for Best Anthology (2012), World Fantasy Award for Anthology (2012), British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology (2012), This is Horror Award for Anthology (2012) Generes: Horror, Short Stories, Fantasy, Anthologies, Fiction, Fantasy, Weird Fiction, Science Fiction, Weird Fiction, New Weird, Speculative Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, Formats: audible mp3, ePUB(Android), kindle, and audiobook. The book can be easily translated to readable Russian, English, Hindi, Spanish, Chinese, Bengali, Malaysian, French, Portuguese, Indonesian, German, Arabic, Japanese and many others. 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All this week we’re posting original content over at Weirdfictionreview.com, including an exclusive interview with the son of Amos Tutuola, fiction from Tutuola, an interview with Kathe Koja, Georg Heym’s iconic poetic short-short “The Dissection” and an essay on Heym by Gio Clairval, among other features. However, ever since the site debuted in November, we’ve been posting content related to the anthology, so check out the archives. How You Can Help! If you like weird fiction and want to support huge honkin’ anthologies full of weird fiction, here are some of the things you can do to help. Note: The Weird is a May featured pick of Amazon, Kirkus, Powell’s, and io9! —Buy the book. It’s currently selling for a good price for an oversized hardcover. Buy it for friends. Buy it for family. From your preferred seller: —Review the book. Blog, review site, or on a sandwich board in front of your local bookstore. Any mention, especially noting whatever you really liked about the book, helps immensely. —Review it on Amazon. Go to the Amazon sales page for the book and tell other readers what you liked about it. A quick and easy way to help get the word out and create interest. —Make sure local booksellers carry it. The anthology seems to have a strong presence in bookstores, but you can always encourage booksellers who aren’t stocking it. You can even tell them it’s by the same people that brought them the Steampunk anthologies. —Request it from your local library. Making sure your local library knows about the anthology not only increases library orders but allows multiple people to enjoy the book. —Spread the word through twitter and facebook. Tell people about the anthology through social media, using one of the links above to bookseller sites or link to one of these Weirdfictionreview.com posts: The Weird’s table of contents More information about The Weird —Come to the events. Ann and I will be at BEA in June, I’ll be at Stonecoast in Maine and at ReaderCon in July, and we’ll also both be doing some events in the Carolinas in late July (to be announced). We’ll have details on the events shortly. More Info on the Anthology. I think by now, if you’ve followed this blog, you know the idea behind The Weird, but in case you missed it… THE WEIRD: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories Edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Tor Books (North American edition) Foreword: Michael Moorcock Introduction by the Editors Afterword: China Mieville. Starred Reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist. Over one hundred years of weird fiction collected in a single volume of over 750,000 words, from around 1908 through 2010. Strands of The Weird represented include classic US/UK weird tales, the Belgian School of the Weird, Japanese weird, Latin American weird, Nigerian weird, weird SF, Feminist weird, weird ritual, general international weird, and offshoots of the weird originating with Surrealism, Symbolism, and the Decadent movement. The publishers believe this is the largest volume of weird fiction ever housed between the covers of one book. ‘The definitive collection of weird fiction… its success lies in its ability to lend coherence to a great number of stories that are so remarkable different and yet share the same theme’ TLS. ‘Studded with literary gems, it’s a hefty, diligently assembled survey of a genre that manages to be at once unsettling, disorientating and bracing in its variety.’ James Lovegrove, Financial Times. ‘It’s a tremendous experience to go through its 1,126 pages… there are so many delights in this that any reader will find something truly memorable’ Scotland on Sunday. ‘Readers eager to explore a world beyond the ordinary need look no further’ Time Out. ISBN 13: 9780857894878. The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories. VanderMeer, Ann. This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. 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 amongst its practitioners number 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 boldest and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features an all star cast of authors, from classics to international bestsellers to Booker prize winners. Here are Ben Okri and George R.R. Martin, Angela Carter and , Franz Kafka and China Mieville, Clive Barker and Haruki Murakami, M.R. James and , Mervyn Peake and Michael Chabon, and Daphne Du Maurier. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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. Excerpt. � Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. : THE WEIRD: TABLE OF CONTENTS. Alfred Kubin, “The Other Side” (excerpt), 1908. F. Marion Crawford, “The Screaming Skull,” 1908. Algernon Blackwood, “The Willows,” 1907. Saki, “Sredni Vashtar,” 1910. M.R. James, “Casting the Runes,” 1911. Lord Dunsany, “How Nuth Would Have Practiced his Art,” 1912. Gustav Meyrink, “The Man in the Bottle,” 1912. Georg Heym, “The Dissection,” 1913. Hanns Heinz Ewers, “The Spider,” 1915. Rabindranath Tagore, “The Hungry Stones,” 1916. Luigi Ugolini, “The Vegetable Man,” 1917. A. Merritt, “The People of the Pit,” 1918. Ryunosuke Akutagawa, “The Hell Screen,” 1918. Francis Stevens, “Unseen---Unfeared,” 1919. Franz Kafka, “In the Penal Colony,” 1919. Stefan Grabinski, “The White Weyrak,” 1921. H.F. Arnold, “The Night Wire,” 1926. H.P. Lovecraft, “The Dunwich Horror,” 1929. Margaret Irwin, “The Book,” 1930. Jean Ray, “The Mainz Psalter ,” 1930. Jean Ray, “The Shadowy Street,” 1931. Clark Ashton Smith, “Genius Loci,” 1933. Hagiwara Sakutoro, “The Town of Cats,” 1935. Hugh Walpole, “The Tarn,” 1936. Bruno Schulz, “Sanatorium at the Sign of the Hourglass,” 1937. Robert Barbour Johnson, “Far Below,” 1939. , “Smoke Ghost,” 1941. Leonora Carrington, “White Rabbits,” 1941. Donald Wollheim, “Mimic,” 1942. Ray Bradbury, “The Crowd,” 1943. William Sansom, “The Long Sheet,” 1944. Jorge Luis Borges, “The Aleph,” 1945. Olympe Bhely-Quenum, “A Child in the Bush of Ghosts,” 1949. Shirley Jackson, “The Summer People,” 1950. Margaret St. Clair, “The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles,” 1951. Robert Bloch, “The Hungry House,” 1951. Augusto Monterroso, “Mister Taylor,” 1952. Amos Tutuola, “The Complete Gentleman,” 1952. Jerome Bixby, “It's a Good Life,” 1953. Julio Cortazar, “Axolotl,” 1956. William Sansom, “A Woman Seldom Found,” 1956. Charles Beaumont, “The Howling Man,” 1959. Mervyn Peake, “Same Time, Same Place,” 1963. Dino Buzzati, “The Colomber,” 1966. Michel Bernanos, “The Other Side of the Mountain,” 1967. Merce Rodoreda, “The Salamander,” 1967. Claude Seignolle, “The Ghoulbird,” 1967. Gahan Wilson, “The Sea Was Wet As Wet Could Be,” 1967. Daphne Du Maurier, “Don't Look Now,” 1971. , “The Hospice,” 1975. , “It Only Comes Out at Night,” 1976. James Tiptree Jr., “The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Terrible Things to Rats,” 1976. Eric Basso, “The Beak Doctor,” 1977. Jamaica Kincaid, “Mother,” 1978. George R.R. Martin, “Sandkings,” 1979. , “The Brood,” 1980. Michael Shea, “The Autopsy,” 1980. William Gibson/John Shirley, “The Belonging Kind,” 1981. M. John Harrison, “Egnaro,” 1981. Joanna Russ, “The Little Dirty Girl,” 1982. M. John Harrison, “The New Rays,” 1982. Premendra Mitra, “The Discovery of Telenapota,” 1984. F. Paul Wilson, “Soft,” 1984. Octavia Butler, “Bloodchild,” 1984. Clive Barker, “In the Hills, the Cities,” 1984. Leena Krohn, “Tainaron,” 1985. Garry Kilworth, “Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands,” 1987. Lucius Shepard, “Shades,” 1987. Harlan Ellison, “The Function of Dream Sleep,” 1988. Ben Okri, “Worlds That Flourish,” 1988. Elizabeth Hand, “The Boy in the Tree,” 1989. , “Family,” 1989. Poppy Z Brite, “His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood,” 1990. Michal Ajvaz, “The End of the Garden,” 1991. , “The Dark,” 1991. Kathe Koja, “Angels in Love,” 1991. Haruki Murakami, “The Ice Man,” 1991 (translation, Japan) Lisa Tuttle, “Replacements,” 1992. Marc Laidlaw, “The Diane Arbus Suicide Portfolio,” 1993. Steven Utley, “The Country Doctor,” 1993. William Browning Spenser, “The Ocean and All Its Devices,” 1994. , “The Delicate,” 1994. Martin Simpson, “Last Rites and Resurrections,” 1994. Stephen King, “The Man in the Black Suit,” 1994. Angela Carter, “The Snow Pavilion,” 1995. Craig Padawer, “The Meat Garden,” 1996. Stepan Chapman, “The Stiff and the Stile,” 1997. , “Yellow and Red,” 1998. Kelly Link, “The Specialist's Hat,” 1998. Caitlin R. Kiernan, “A Redress for Andromeda,” 2000. Michael Chabon, “The God of Dark Laughter,” 2001. China Mieville, “Details,” 2002. Michael Cisco, “The Genius of Assassins,” 2002. Neil Gaiman, “Feeders and Eaters,” 2002. Jeff VanderMeer, “The Cage,” 2002. Jeffrey Ford, “The Beautiful Gelreesh,” 2003. Thomas Ligotti, “The Town Manager,” 2003. Brian Evenson, “The Brotherhood of Mutilation,” 2003. Mark Samuels, “The White Hands,” 2003. Daniel Abraham, “Flat Diana,” 2004. , “Singing My Sister Down,” 2005. T.M. Wright, “The People on the Island,” 2005. Laird Barron, “The Forest,” 2007. Liz Williams, “The Hide,” 2007. Reza Negarestani, “The Dust Enforcer,” 2008. Micaela Morrissette, “The Familiars,” 2009. Steve Duffy, “In the Lion's Den,” 2009. Stephen Graham Jones, “Little Lambs,” 2009. J. Robert Lennon, “The Portal,” 2010. K.J. Bishop, “Saving the Gleeful Horse,” 2010. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. (No Available Copies) If you know the book but cannot find it on AbeBooks, we can automatically search for it on your behalf as new inventory is added. If it is added to AbeBooks by one of our member booksellers, we will notify you! The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories. 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 amongst its practitioners number 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 boldest and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features an all star cast of authors, from classics to international bestsellers to Booker prize winners. Here are Ben Okri and George R.R. Martin, Angela Carter and Kelly Link, Franz Kafka and China Mieville, Clive Barker and Haruki Murakami, M.R. James and Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake and Michael Chabon, Stephen King and Daphne Du Maurier. Biograf�a del autor : 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. ��ber diesen Titel� kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen. The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories. Ann Vandermeer (ed.) ; Jeff Vandermeer (ed.) This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. 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 amongst its practitioners number 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 boldest and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features an all star cast of authors, from classics to international bestsellers to Booker prize winners. Here are Ben Okri and George R.R. Martin , Angela Carter and Kelly Link , Franz Kafka and China Miéville , Clive Barker and Haruki Murakami , M.R. James and Neil Gaiman , Mervyn Peake and Michael Chabon , Stephen King and Daphne Du Maurier . "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. "What is good about the majority of these stories is precisely that they leave you with many more questions than answers, the mark, in my view, of a superior kind of fiction. It does, in fact, what most of our best fiction does, irrespective of category." --Award-winning author Michael Moorcock, from his introduction. "These texts, dead and/or not, burrow, and we cannot predict everything they will infect or eat their path through. But certainly your brain, and they will eat the books you read from today on, too. That is how the Weird recruits." --China Mieville, bestselling and award-winning author of "Embassytown", from his afterword. ""The Steampunk Bible "is an informed, informative and beautifully illustrated survey of the subject." "--The Financial Times" Praise for THE WEIRD: "What is good about the majority of these stories is precisely that they leave you with many more questions than answers, the mark, in my view, of a superior kind of fiction. It does, in fact, what most of our best fiction does, irrespective of category." --Award-winning author Michael Moorcock, from his introduction. "These texts, dead and/or not, burrow, and we cannot predict everything they will infect or eat their path through. But certainly your brain, and they will eat the books you read from today on, too. That is how the Weird recruits." --China Mieville, bestselling and award-winning author of "Embassytown", from his afterword. "Studded with literary gems, it's a hefty, diligently assembled survey of a genre that manages to be at once unsettling, disorientating and bracing in its variety." --"James Lovegrove, Financial Times " "It's a tremendous experience to go through its 1,126 pages. there are so many delights in this that any reader will find something truly memorable." --"Scotland on Sunday" "Readers eager to explore a world beyond the ordinary need look no further." --"Time Out" """An anthology of writing so powerful it will leave your reality utterly shredded. Give yourself to the weird! Hurl your puny mortal body through the portal the VanderMeers have opened for you, join your lord the Mieville on the other side, give your heart and soul to the saints that stand at his feet, to the mad prophets that have prepared you for his coming. Open the pages of the new gospel of The Weird." --"Guardian.co.uk" "The definitive collection of weird fiction. its success lies in its ability to lend coherence to a great number of stories that are so remarkable different and yet share the same theme." --"TLS""" What is good about the majority of these stories is precisely that they leave you with many more questions than answers, the mark, in my view, of a superior kind of fiction. It does, in fact, what most of our best fiction does, irrespective of category. "Award-winning author Michael Moorcock, from his introduction" These texts, dead and/or not, burrow, and we cannot predict everything they will infect or eat their path through. But certainly your brain, and they will eat the books you read from today on, too. That is how the Weird recruits. "China Mieville, bestselling and award-winning author of Embassytown, from his afterword" Studded with literary gems, it's a hefty, diligently assembled survey of a genre that manages to be at once unsettling, disorientating and bracing in its variety. "James Lovegrove, Financial Times" It's a tremendous experience to go through its 1,126 pages there are so many delights in this that any reader will find something truly memorable. "Scotland on Sunday" Readers eager to explore a world beyond the ordinary need look no further. "Time Out" An anthology of writing so powerful it will leave your reality utterly shredded Give yourself to the weird! Hurl your puny mortal body through the portal the VanderMeers have opened for you, join your lord the Mieville on the other side, give your heart and soul to the saints that stand at his feet, to the mad prophets that have prepared you for his coming. Open the pages of the new gospel of The Weird. "Guardian.co.uk" Unmissable! "The Guardian" The definitive collection of weird fiction its success lies in its ability to lend coherence to a great number of stories that are so remarkable different and yet share the same theme. "TLS"" What is good about the majority of these stories is precisely that they leave you with many more questions than answers, the mark, in my view, of a superior kind of fiction. It does, in fact, what most of our best fiction does, irrespective of category. Award-winning author Michael Moorcock, from his introduction. These texts, dead and/or not, burrow, and we cannot predict everything they will infect or eat their path through. But certainly your brain, and they will eat the books you read from today on, too. That is how the Weird recruits. China Mieville, bestselling and award-winning author of Embassytown, from his afterword. Studded with literary gems, it's a hefty, diligently assembled survey of a genre that manages to be at once unsettling, disorientating and bracing in its variety. James Lovegrove, Financial Times. It's a tremendous experience to go through its 1,126 pages there are so many delights in this that any reader will find something truly memorable. Scotland on Sunday. Readers eager to explore a world beyond the ordinary need look no further. Time Out. An anthology of writing so powerful it will leave your reality utterly shredded Give yourself to the weird! Hurl your puny mortal body through the portal the VanderMeers have opened for you, join your lord the Mieville on the other side, give your heart and soul to the saints that stand at his feet, to the mad prophets that have prepared you for his coming. Open the pages of the new gospel of The Weird. Guardian.co.uk. Unmissable! The Guardian. The definitive collection of weird fiction its success lies in its ability to lend coherence to a great number of stories that are so remarkable different and yet share the same theme. TLS. "What is good about the majority of these stories is precisely that they leave you with many more questions than answers, the mark, in my view, of a superior kind of fiction. It does, in fact, what most of our best fiction does, irrespective of category." -- Award-winning author Michael Moorcock, from his introduction. "These texts, dead and/or not, burrow, and we cannot predict everything they will infect or eat their path through. But certainly your brain, and they will eat the books you read from today on, too. That is how the Weird recruits." -- China Mieville, bestselling and award-winning author of Embassytown, from his afterword. "Studded with literary gems, it's a hefty, diligently assembled survey of a genre that manages to be at once unsettling, disorientating and bracing in its variety." -- James Lovegrove, Financial Times. "It's a tremendous experience to go through its 1,126 pages. there are so many delights in this that any reader will find something truly memorable." -- Scotland on Sunday. "Readers eager to explore a world beyond the ordinary need look no further." -- Time Out. "An anthology of writing so powerful it will leave your reality utterly shredded. Give yourself to the weird! Hurl your puny mortal body through the portal the VanderMeers have opened for you, join your lord the Mieville on the other side, give your heart and soul to the saints that stand at his feet, to the mad prophets that have prepared you for his coming. Open the pages of the new gospel of The Weird." -- Guardian.co.uk. "Unmissable!" -- The Guardian. "The definitive collection of weird fiction. its success lies in its ability to lend coherence to a great number of stories that are so remarkable different and yet share the same theme." -- TLS. From the Author : 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. The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories. "What is good about the majority of these stories is precisely that they leave you with many more questions than answers, the mark, in my view, of a superior kind of fiction. It does, in fact, what most of our best fiction does, irrespective of category." -- Award-winning author Michael Moorcock, from his introduction. "These texts, dead and/or not, burrow, and we cannot predict everything they will infect or eat their path through. But certainly your brain, and they will eat the books you read from today on, too. That is how the Weird recruits." -- China Miéville, bestselling and award-winning author of Embassytown, from his afterword. "Studded with literary gems, it's a hefty, diligently assembled survey of a genre that manages to be at once unsettling, disorientating and bracing in its variety." -- James Lovegrove, Financial Times. "It's a tremendous experience to go through its 1,126 pages. there are so many delights in this that any reader will find something truly memorable." -- Scotland on Sunday. "Readers eager to explore a world beyond the ordinary need look no further." -- Time Out. "An anthology of writing so powerful it will leave your reality utterly shredded. Give yourself to the weird! Hurl your puny mortal body through the portal the VanderMeers have opened for you, join your lord the Miéville on the other side, give your heart and soul to the saints that stand at his feet, to the mad prophets that have prepared you for his coming. Open the pages of the new gospel of The Weird." -- Guardian.co.uk. "Unmissable!" -- The Guardian. "The definitive collection of weird fiction. its success lies in its ability to lend coherence to a great number of stories that are so remarkable different and yet share the same theme." -- TLS. Book Description : A landmark, eclectic, leviathan-sized anthology of fiction's wilder, stranger, darker shores.