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Anthology Title:
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories • anthology by
Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- The People of the Pit • (1918) • short story by A. Merritt
- The Ocean and All Its Devices • (1994) • novelette by William Browning Spencer
- In the Hills, the Cities • (1984) • novelette by Clive Barker
- Smoke Ghost • (1941) • short story by Fritz Leiber
- Mimic • (1942) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim
- The Belonging Kind • (1981) • short story by William Gibson and John Shirley
- Angels in Love • (1991) • short story by Kathe Koja
- The Function of Dream Sleep • (1988) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
- The Dark • (1991) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
- Bloodchild • (1984) • novelette by Octavia E. Butler
- The Dunwich Horror • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1929) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
- The Country Doctor • (1993) • short story by Steven Utley
- Shades • (1987) • novelette by Lucius Shepard
- The Man in the Black Suit • (1994) • short story by Stephen King
- The Summer People • (1950) • short story by Shirley Jackson
- The Crowd • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury
- The Brood • (1980) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
- Replacements • (1992) • novelette by Lisa Tuttle
- The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats • (1976) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
- His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood • [Cthulhu Mythos short fiction] • (1990) • short story by Poppy Z. Brite
- Sandkings • [Thousand Worlds] • (1979) • novelette by George R. R. Martin
- The New Rays • (1982) • short story by M. John Harrison
- Window • (1980) • short story by Bob Leman
- The Autopsy • (1980) • novella by Michael Shea
- The Hospice • (1975) • novelette by Robert Aickman
- It Only Comes Out at Night • (1976) • short story by Dennis Etchison
- The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles • (1951) • short story by Margaret St. Clair
- Far Below • (1939) • short story by Robert Barbour Johnson
- The Little Dirty Girl • (1982) • novelette by Joanna Russ
- Egnaro • (1981) • novelette by M. John Harrison
- The Howling Man • (1959) • short story by Charles Beaumont
- Soft • (1984) • short story by F. Paul Wilson
- Genius Loci • (1933) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
- How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany
- The Hungry House • (1951) • novelette by Robert Bloch
- Family • (1989) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
- The Diane Arbus Suicide Portfolio • (1993) • short story by Marc Laidlaw
- The Boy in the Tree • (1989) • novelette by Elizabeth Hand
- Unseen—Unfeared • (1919) • short story by Francis Stevens
- Last Rites and Resurrections • (1994) • short story by Martin Simpson
- The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be • (1967) • short story by Gahan Wilson
- Sredni Vashtar • non-genre • (1910) • short story by Saki
- The Snow Pavilion • (1995) • short story by Angela Carter
- The Willows • (1907) • novella by Algernon Blackwood
- Casting the Runes • (1911) • novelette by M. R. James
- Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands • (1987) • short story by Garry Kilworth
- The Delicate • (1994) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
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The Shadowy Street • (1965) • novelette by
Jean Ray
(trans. of La ruelle ténébreuse?La ruelle tenebreuse1932)
- Don't Look Now • (1970) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
- The Night Wire • (1926) • short story by H. F. Arnold
- The Man in the Bottle • (1973) • short story by Gustav Meyrink (trans. of Der Mann auf der Flasche 1904)
- The Book • (1930) • short story by Margaret Irwin
- The Specialist's Hat • (1998) • short story by Kelly Link
- The Screaming Skull • (1908) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
- Same Time, Same Place • (1963) • short story by Mervyn Peake
- My Mother • (1983) • short story by Jamaica Kincaid
-
Details • (2002) • short story by
China Miéville?China Mieville
- The God of Dark Laughter • (2001) • short story by Michael Chabon
- Flat Diane • (2004) • novelette by Daniel Abraham
- Singing My Sister Down • (2004) • short story by Margo Lanagan
- The Beautiful Gelreesh • (2003) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- The Cage • [Ambergris] • (2002) • novelette by Jeff VanderMeer
- A Woman Seldom Found • (1956) • short story by William Sansom
- The Colomber • short story by Dino Buzzati (trans. of Il colombre 1961)
- Feeders and Eaters • (2002) • short story by Neil Gaiman
- The Other Side of the Mountain • (2011) • novella by Michel Bernanos (trans. of La montagne morte de la vie 1967)
- The Forest • (2007) • novelette by Laird Barron
- The White Hands • (2003) • short story by Mark Samuels
- The Tarn • (1923) • short story by Hugh Walpole
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The Hungry Stones • (1916) • short story by
রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর?Ravīndranātha Thākura(trans. ofক্ষুধিত পাষান?Kshudhita Pashan1895) [as by Rabindranath Tagore]
- The Hide • (2007) • short story by Liz Williams
- The Mainz Psalter • (1965) • novelette by Jean Ray (trans. of Le psautier de Mayence 1931)
- The Long Sheet • (1941) • short story by William Sansom
- Tainaron: Mail from Another City • (2004) • novella by Leena Krohn (trans. of Tainaron: Postia toisesta kaupungista 1985)
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A Redress for Andromeda • [Dandridge Cycle] • (2000) • short story by
Caitlín R. Kiernan?Caitlin R. Kiernan
- The Town Manager • (2003) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
- The Brotherhood of Mutilation • (2003) • novella by Brian Evenson
- The Lion's Den • (2009) • novelette by Steve Duffy
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The White Wyrak • (1993) • short story by
Stefan Grabiński?Stefan Grabinski(trans. ofBiały Wyrak (Gawęda kominiarska)?Bialy wyrak1921)
Bialy Wyrak (Gaweda kominiarska) - The Familiars • (2009) • short story by Micaela Morrissette
- White Rabbits • (1941) • short story by Leonora Carrington
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The Ice Man • (2006) • short story by
村上春樹?Haruki Murakami(trans. of氷男?Kōri Otoko1991) [as by Haruki Murakami]
- The People on the Island • (2005) • short story by T. M. Wright
- Foreweird • essay by Michael Moorcock
- Introduction (The Weird) • essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
- The Other Side (excerpt) • short fiction by Alfred Kubin
- The Dissection • short story by Georg Heym (trans. of Die Sektion 1913)
- The Spider • (1915) • novelette by Hanns Heinz Ewers (trans. of Die Spinne 1908) [as by Hans Heinz Ewers]
- The Vegetable Man • short story by Luigi Ugolini (trans. of L'uomo vegetale 1917)
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The Hell Screen • short story by
芥川龍之介?Ryūnosuke Akutagawa(trans. of地獄変?Jigokuhen1918) [as byRyūnosuke Akutagawa?Ryunosuke Akutagawa]
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The Town of Cats • (2008) • short story by
萩原朔太郎?はぎわらさくたろう(trans. of
Hagiwara Sakutarō猫町?Nekomachi1935) [as by
Neko-machiHagiwara Sakutarō?Hagiwara Sakutaro] -
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass • (1977) • short story by
Bruno Schulz
(trans. of Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą?Sanatorium Pod Klepsydra1937)
- A Child in the Bush of Ghosts • (unknown) • short story by Olympe Bhêly-Quénum (trans. of Promenade dans la forêt 1968)
- The Complete Gentleman • [The Palm-Wine Drinkard] • (1952) • short fiction by Amos Tutuola
- 'It's a Good Life' • short story by Jerome Bixby (variant of It's a Good Life 1953)
- Mister Taylor • short story by Augusto Monterroso (trans. of Mister Taylor 1954)
- The Salamander • short story by Mercè Rodoreda (trans. of La salamandra 1967)
- The Ghoulbird • short story by Claude Seignolle (trans. of Le hupeur 1967)
- The Beak Doctor • (1977) • novella by Eric Basso
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The Discovery of Telenapota • (1984) • short story by
প্রেমেন্দ্র মিত্র?Premendra Mitra(trans. of
Prēmēndra Mitraতেলেনাপোতা আবিষ্কার?Telenapota Abishkar) [as by Premendra Mitra]
Tēlēnāpōtā Ābiṣkāra
Telenapota Abiskara - Worlds That Flourish • (1988) • short story by Ben Okri
- The End of the Garden • (1994) • short story by Michal Ajvaz (trans. of Konec Zahrady 1991)
- 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 (variant of Yellow & Red)
- The Genius of Assassins: Three Dreams of Murder in the First Person • (2002) • novelette by Michael Cisco (variant of The Genius of Assassins)
- Dust Enforcer • (2008) • short fiction by Reza Negarestani
- Little Lambs • (2009) • short story by Stephen Graham Jones
- Saving the Gleeful Horse • (2010) • short story by K. J. Bishop
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Afterweird: The Efficacy of a Worm-Eaten Dictionary • essay by
China Miéville?China Mieville
- The Aleph • (1998) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El Aleph 1945)
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Axolotl • short story by
Julio Cortázar?Julio Cortazar(trans. of Axolotl 1956)
- In the Penal Colony • (2003) • novelette by Franz Kafka (trans. of In der Strafkolonie 1919)
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