The Weird _ A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories

Vandermeer, Ann; Vandermeer, Jeff (eds); Moorcock, Michael (foreword); Mieville, China (afterword)

ISBN 10: 1848876874 / ISBN 13: 9781848876873

Published by Corvus, London, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Weird _ A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
• Publisher: Corvus, London
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848876874
• ISBN 13: 9781848876873
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Paperback Octavo.
• Condition: Very good
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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Award-winning writer Jeff VanderMeer's novels have been published in fifteen languages and made the year's best lists of, among others, Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, and San Francisco Chronicle. In addition to editing more than a dozen influential fiction anthologies, VanderMeer's nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Miami Herald. He has worked with rock bands The Church and Murder by Death, as well as PlayStation Europe, on various projects and currently serves as the assistant director of the Shared Worlds teen writing workshop (Wofford College). He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife Ann VanderMeer, the editor of Weird Tales.

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.