The weird : a compendium of strange and dark stories /
The weird : a compendium of strange and dark stories /
edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.
- 1st U.S. ed.
- New York : Tor Books, 2012, c2011.
- xx, 1126 p. ; 25 cm.
"A Tom Doherty Associates book." First published: Great Britain : Corvus, 2011.
Foreweird / Introduction / The other side (excerpt) / The screaming skull / The willows / Sredni Vashtar / Casting the runes / How Nuth would have practiced 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 / Michael Moorcock -- Ann and jeff VanderMeer -- Alfred Kubin -- F. Marion Crawford -- Algernon Blackwood -- Saki -- M.R. James -- Lord Dunsany -- Gustav Meyrink -- George Heym -- Hanns Heinz Ewers -- Rabindranath Tagore -- Luigi Ugolini -- A. Merritt -- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa -- Francis Stevens -- Franz Kafka -- Stefan Grabinski -- H.F. Arnold -- H.P. Lovecraft -- Margaret Irwin -- Jean Ray -- Jean Ray -- Clark Ashton Smith -- Hagiwara Sakutarō -- Hugh Walpole -- Bruno Schulz -- Robert Barbour Johnson -- Fritz Leiber -- Leonora Carrington -- Donald A. Wollheim -- Ray Bradbury -- William Sansom -- 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 / Lisa Tuttle -- Marc Laidlaw -- Steven Utley -- Martin Simpson -- William Browning Spencer -- Jeffrey Ford -- Stephen King -- Angela Carter -- Craig Padawer -- Stepan Chapman -- Tanith Lee -- Kelly Link -- Caitlín R. Kiernan -- Michael Chabon -- China Miéville -- Michael Cisco -- Neil Gaiman -- Jeff VanderMeer -- Jeffrey Ford -- Thomas Ligotti -- Brian Evenson -- Mark Samuels -- Daniel Abraham -- Margo Lanagan -- T.M. Wright -- Laird Barron -- Liz Williams -- Reza Negarestani -- Micaela Morrissette -- Seve Duffy -- Stephen Graham Jones -- K. J. bishop -- China Miéville. 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 / Jorge Luis Borges -- Olympe Bhêly-Quénum -- Shirley Jackson -- Margaret St. Clair -- Robert Bloch -- Amos Tutuola -- Jerome Bixby -- Augusto Monterroso -- Julio Cortázar -- William Sansom -- Charles Beaumont -- Mervyn Peake -- Dino Buzzati -- Michel Bernanos -- Mercè Rodoreda -- Claude Seignolle -- Gahan Wilson -- Daphne du Maurier -- Robert Aickman -- Dennis Etchison -- James Tiptree, Jr. -- The beak doctor / My mother / Sandkings / Window / The brood / The autopsy / The belonging kind / Egnaro / The dirty little girl / The new rays / The discovery of Telanapota / 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 / Eric Basso -- Jamaica Kincaid -- George R. R. Martin -- Bob Leman -- Ramsey Campbell -- Michael Shea -- William Gibson, John Shirley -- M. John Harrison -- Joanna Russ -- M. John Harrison -- Premendra Mitra -- F. Paul Wilson -- Octavia E. Butler -- Clive Barker -- Leena Krohn -- Garry Kilworth -- Lucius Shepard -- Harlan Ellison -- Ben Okri -- Elizabeth Hand -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Poppy Z. Brite -- Michal Ajvaz -- Karen Joy Fowler -- Kathe Koja -- Maruki Murakami --
0765333600 0765333627 (trade pbk.) 9780765333605 9780765333629 (trade pbk.)
Fantasy fiction.
Paranormal fiction.
Science fiction.
Short stories.
"A Tom Doherty Associates book." First published: Great Britain : Corvus, 2011.
Foreweird / Introduction / The other side (excerpt) / The screaming skull / The willows / Sredni Vashtar / Casting the runes / How Nuth would have practiced 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 / Michael Moorcock -- Ann and jeff VanderMeer -- Alfred Kubin -- F. Marion Crawford -- Algernon Blackwood -- Saki -- M.R. James -- Lord Dunsany -- Gustav Meyrink -- George Heym -- Hanns Heinz Ewers -- Rabindranath Tagore -- Luigi Ugolini -- A. Merritt -- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa -- Francis Stevens -- Franz Kafka -- Stefan Grabinski -- H.F. Arnold -- H.P. Lovecraft -- Margaret Irwin -- Jean Ray -- Jean Ray -- Clark Ashton Smith -- Hagiwara Sakutarō -- Hugh Walpole -- Bruno Schulz -- Robert Barbour Johnson -- Fritz Leiber -- Leonora Carrington -- Donald A. Wollheim -- Ray Bradbury -- William Sansom -- 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 / Lisa Tuttle -- Marc Laidlaw -- Steven Utley -- Martin Simpson -- William Browning Spencer -- Jeffrey Ford -- Stephen King -- Angela Carter -- Craig Padawer -- Stepan Chapman -- Tanith Lee -- Kelly Link -- Caitlín R. Kiernan -- Michael Chabon -- China Miéville -- Michael Cisco -- Neil Gaiman -- Jeff VanderMeer -- Jeffrey Ford -- Thomas Ligotti -- Brian Evenson -- Mark Samuels -- Daniel Abraham -- Margo Lanagan -- T.M. Wright -- Laird Barron -- Liz Williams -- Reza Negarestani -- Micaela Morrissette -- Seve Duffy -- Stephen Graham Jones -- K. J. bishop -- China Miéville. 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 / Jorge Luis Borges -- Olympe Bhêly-Quénum -- Shirley Jackson -- Margaret St. Clair -- Robert Bloch -- Amos Tutuola -- Jerome Bixby -- Augusto Monterroso -- Julio Cortázar -- William Sansom -- Charles Beaumont -- Mervyn Peake -- Dino Buzzati -- Michel Bernanos -- Mercè Rodoreda -- Claude Seignolle -- Gahan Wilson -- Daphne du Maurier -- Robert Aickman -- Dennis Etchison -- James Tiptree, Jr. -- The beak doctor / My mother / Sandkings / Window / The brood / The autopsy / The belonging kind / Egnaro / The dirty little girl / The new rays / The discovery of Telanapota / 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 / Eric Basso -- Jamaica Kincaid -- George R. R. Martin -- Bob Leman -- Ramsey Campbell -- Michael Shea -- William Gibson, John Shirley -- M. John Harrison -- Joanna Russ -- M. John Harrison -- Premendra Mitra -- F. Paul Wilson -- Octavia E. Butler -- Clive Barker -- Leena Krohn -- Garry Kilworth -- Lucius Shepard -- Harlan Ellison -- Ben Okri -- Elizabeth Hand -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Poppy Z. Brite -- Michal Ajvaz -- Karen Joy Fowler -- Kathe Koja -- Maruki Murakami --
0765333600 0765333627 (trade pbk.) 9780765333605 9780765333629 (trade pbk.)
Fantasy fiction.
Paranormal fiction.
Science fiction.
Short stories.