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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... Review: Six years after adding this book to my library and beginning to read it, I finally finished near the end of last month. Although not every story rates five stars, I have decided to give the whole collection that rating. This goes against my usual principle of averaging things out and perhaps rounding up. In this case, there is just so much great stuff... 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