TY - BOOK AU - VanderMeer,Ann AU - VanderMeer,Jeff TI - The weird: a compendium of strange and dark stories SN - 0765333600 PY - 2012///, c2011 CY - New York PB - Tor Books KW - Fantasy fiction KW - Paranormal fiction KW - Science fiction KW - Short stories N1 - "A Tom Doherty Associates book."; First published: Great Britain : Corvus, 2011; Foreweird; Michael Moorcock --; Introduction; Ann and jeff VanderMeer --; The other side (excerpt); Alfred Kubin --; The screaming skull; F. Marion Crawford --; The willows; Algernon Blackwood --; Sredni Vashtar; Saki --; Casting the runes; M.R. James --; How Nuth would have practiced his art upon the Gnoles; Lord Dunsany --; The man in the bottle; Gustav Meyrink --; The dissection; George Heym --; The spider; Hanns Heinz Ewers --; The hungry stones; Rabindranath Tagore --; The vegetable man; Luigi Ugolini --; The people of the pit; A. Merritt --; The hell screen; Ryūnosuke Akutagawa --; Unseen-- unfeared; Francis Stevens --; In the penal colony; Franz Kafka --; The white wyrak; Stefan Grabinski --; The night wire; H.F. Arnold --; The Dunwich horror; H.P. Lovecraft --; The book; Margaret Irwin --; The Mainz Psalter; Jean Ray --; The shadowy street; Jean Ray --; Genius loci; Clark Ashton Smith --; The town of cats; Hagiwara Sakutarō --; The tarn; Hugh Walpole --; Sanatorium under the sign of the hourglass; Bruno Schulz --; Far below; Robert Barbour Johnson --; Smoke ghost; Fritz Leiber --; White rabbits; Leonora Carrington --; Mimic; Donald A. Wollheim --; The crowd; Ray Bradbury --; The long sheet; William Sansom --; Replacements; Lisa Tuttle --; The Diane Arbus suicide portfolio; Marc Laidlaw --; The country doctor; Steven Utley --; Last rites and resurrections; Martin Simpson --; The ocean and all its devices; William Browning Spencer --; The delicate; Jeffrey Ford --; The man in the black suit; Stephen King --; The snow pavilion; Angela Carter --; The meat garden; Craig Padawer --; The stiff and the stile; Stepan Chapman --; Yellow and red; Tanith Lee --; The specialist's hat; Kelly Link --; A redress for Andromeda; Caitlín R. Kiernan --; The god of dark laughter; Michael Chabon --; Details; China Miéville --; The genius of assassins; Michael Cisco --; Feeders and eaters; Neil Gaiman --; The cage; Jeff VanderMeer --; The beautiful Gelreesh; Jeffrey Ford --; The town manager; Thomas Ligotti --; The brotherhood of mutilation; Brian Evenson --; The white hands; Mark Samuels --; Flat Diane; Daniel Abraham --; Singing my sister down; Margo Lanagan --; The people on the island; T.M. Wright --; The forest; Laird Barron --; The hide; Liz Williams --; Dust enforcer; Reza Negarestani --; The familiars; Micaela Morrissette --; The lion's den; Seve Duffy --; Little lambs; Stephen Graham Jones --; Saving the gleeful horse; K. J. bishop --; Afterweird; China Miéville; The aleph; Jorge Luis Borges --; A child in the bush of ghosts; Olympe Bhêly-Quénum --; The summer people; Shirley Jackson --; The man who sold rope to the Gnoles; Margaret St. Clair --; The hungry house; Robert Bloch --; The complete gentleman; Amos Tutuola --; "It's a good life"; Jerome Bixby --; Mister Taylor; Augusto Monterroso --; Axolotl; Julio Cortázar --; A woman seldom found; William Sansom --; The howling man; Charles Beaumont --; Same time, same place; Mervyn Peake --; The Colomber; Dino Buzzati --; The other side of the mountain; Michel Bernanos --; The salamander; Mercè Rodoreda --; The ghoulbird; Claude Seignolle --; The sea was wet as wet could be; Gahan Wilson --; Don't look now; Daphne du Maurier --; The hospice; Robert Aickman --; It only comes out at night; Dennis Etchison --; The psychologist who wouldn't do awful things to rats; James Tiptree, Jr. --; The beak doctor; Eric Basso --; My mother; Jamaica Kincaid --; Sandkings; George R. R. Martin --; Window; Bob Leman --; The brood; Ramsey Campbell --; The autopsy; Michael Shea --; The belonging kind; William Gibson, John Shirley --; Egnaro; M. John Harrison --; The dirty little girl; Joanna Russ --; The new rays; M. John Harrison --; The discovery of Telanapota; Premendra Mitra --; Soft; F. Paul Wilson --; Bloodchild; Octavia E. Butler --; In the hills, the cities; Clive Barker --; Tainaron: mail from another city; Leena Krohn --; Hogfoot right and Bird-hands; Garry Kilworth --; Shades; Lucius Shepard --; The function of dream sleep; Harlan Ellison --; Worlds that flourish; Ben Okri --; The boy in the tree; Elizabeth Hand --; Family; Joyce Carol Oates --; His mouth will taste of Wormwood; Poppy Z. Brite --; The end of the garden; Michal Ajvaz --; The dark; Karen Joy Fowler --; Angels in love; Kathe Koja --; The ice man; Maruki Murakami -- ER -