The Weird
Subtitle: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012
ISBN-13: 9781466803190
Table of contents: title: Story order is chronological except for a couple of exceptions; title: transposed for thematic reasons. Stories translated into English are; title: largely positioned by date of first publication in their original; title: language. Authors are North American or from the United Kingdom unless; title: otherwise indicated.; title: Foreweird by Michael Moorcock; title: Introduction by the Editors; title: Afterweird: China Mieville; title: Alfred Kubin, “The Other Side” (excerpt), 1908 (translation, Austria); title: F. Marion Crawford, “The Screaming Skull,” 1908; title: Algernon Blackwood, “The Willows,” 1907; title: Saki, “Sredni Vashtar,” 1910; title: M.R. James, “Casting the Runes,” 1911; title: Lord Dunsany, “How Nuth Would Have Practiced his Art,” 1912; title: Gustav Meyrink, “The Man in the Bottle,” 1912 (translation, Austria); title: Georg Heym, “The Dissection,” 1913 (new translation by Gio Clairval, Germany); title: Hanns Heinz Ewers, “The Spider,” 1915 (translation, Germany); title: Rabindranath Tagore, “The Hungry Stones,” 1916 (India); title: Luigi Ugolini, “The Vegetable Man,” 1917 (new translation by Anna and Brendan Connell, Ita; title: A. Merritt, “The People of the Pit,” 1918; title: Ryunosuke Akutagawa, “The Hell Screen,” 1918 (new translation, Japan); title: Francis Stevens (Gertrude Barrows Bennett), “Unseen?—?Unfeared,” 1919; title: Franz Kafka, “In the Penal Colony,” 1919 (translation, German/Czech); title: Stefan Grabinski, “The White Weyrak,” 1921 (translation, Poland); title: H.F. Arnold, “The Night Wire,” 1926; title: H.P. Lovecraft, “The Dunwich Horror,” 1929; title: Margaret Irwin, “The Book,” 1930; title: Jean Ray, “The Mainz Psalter,” 1930 (translation, Belgium); title: Jean Ray, “The Shadowy Street,” 1931 (translation, Belgium); title: Clark Ashton Smith, “Genius Loci,” 1933; title: Hagiwara Sakutaro, “The Town of Cats,” 1935 (translation, Japan); title: Hugh Walpole, “The Tarn,” 1936; title: Bruno Schulz, “Sanatorium at the Sign of the Hourglass,” 1937 (translation, Poland); title: Robert Barbour Johnson, “Far Below,” 1939; title: Fritz Leiber, “Smoke Ghost,” 1941; title: Leonora Carrington, “White Rabbits,” 1941; title: Donald Wollheim, “Mimic,” 1942; title: Ray Bradbury, “The Crowd,” 1943; title: William Sansom, “The Long Sheet,” 1944; title: Jorge Luis Borges, “The Aleph,” 1945 (translation, Argentina); title: Olympe Bhely-Quenum, “A Child in the Bush of Ghosts,” 1949 (Benin); title: Shirley Jackson, “The Summer People,” 1950; title: Margaret St. Clair, “The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles,” 1951; title: Robert Bloch, “The Hungry House,” 1951; title: Augusto Monterroso, “Mister Taylor,” 1952 (new translation by Larry Nolen, Guatemala); title: Amos Tutuola, “The Complete Gentleman,” 1952 (Nigeria); title: Jerome Bixby, “It’s a Good Life,” 1953; title: Julio Cortazar, “Axolotl,” 1956 (new translation by Gio Clairval, Argentina); title: William Sansom, “A Woman Seldom Found,” 1956; title: Charles Beaumont, “The Howling Man,” 1959; title: Mervyn Peake, “Same Time, Same Place,” 1963; title: Dino Buzzati, “The Colomber,” 1966 (new translation by Gio Clairval, Italy); title: Michel Bernanos, “The Other Side of the Mountain,” 1967 (new translation by Gio Clairval,; title: Merce Rodoreda, “The Salamander,” 1967 (translation, Catalan); title: Claude Seignolle, “The Ghoulbird,” 1967 (new translation by Gio Clairval, France); title: Gahan Wilson, “The Sea Was Wet As Wet Could Be,” 1967; title: Daphne Du Maurier, “Don’t Look Now,” 1971; title: Robert Aickman, “The Hospice,” 1975; title: Dennis Etchison, “It Only Comes Out at Night,” 1976; title: James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon), “The Psychologist Who Wouldn’t Do Awful Things to Rats,; title: Eric Basso, “The Beak Doctor,” 1977; title: Jamaica Kincaid, “Mother,” 1978 (Antigua and Barbuda/US); title: George R.R. Martin, “Sandkings,” 1979; title: Bob Leman, “Window,” 1980; title: Ramsey Campbell, “The Brood,” 1980; title: Michael Shea, “The Autopsy,” 1980; title: William Gibson/John Shirley, “The Belonging Kind,” 1981; title: M. John Harrison, “Egnaro,” 1981; title: Joanna Russ, “The Little Dirty Girl,” 1982; title: M. John Harrison, “The New Rays,” 1982; title: Premendra Mitra, “The Discovery of Telenapota,” 1984 (translation, India); title: F. Paul Wilson, “Soft,” 1984; title: Octavia Butler, “Bloodchild,” 1984; title: Clive Barker, “In the Hills, the Cities,” 1984; title: Leena Krohn, “Tainaron,” 1985 (translation, Finland); title: Garry Kilworth, “Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands,” 1987; title: Lucius Shepard, “Shades,” 1987; title: Harlan Ellison, “The Function of Dream Sleep,” 1988; title: Ben Okri, “Worlds That Flourish,” 1988 (Nigeria); title: Elizabeth Hand, “The Boy in the Tree,” 1989; title: Joyce Carol Oates, “Family,” 1989; title: Poppy Z Brite, “His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood,” 1990; title: Michal Ajvaz, “The End of the Garden,” 1991 (translation, Czech); title: Karen Joy Fowler, “The Dark,” 1991; title: Kathe Koja, “Angels in Love,” 1991; title: Haruki Murakami, “The Ice Man,” 1991 (translation, Japan); title: Lisa Tuttle, “Replacements,” 1992; title: Marc Laidlaw, “The Diane Arbus Suicide Portfolio,” 1993; title: Steven Utley, “The Country Doctor,” 1993; title: William Browning Spenser, “The Ocean and All Its Devices,” 1994; title: Jeffrey Ford, “The Delicate,” 1994; title: Martin Simpson, “Last Rites and Resurrections,” 1994; title: Stephen King, “The Man in the Black Suit,” 1994; title: Angela Carter, “The Snow Pavilion,” 1995; title: Craig Padawer, “The Meat Garden,” 1996; title: Stepan Chapman, “The Stiff and the Stile,” 1997; title: Tanith Lee, “Yellow and Red,” 1998; title: Kelly Link, “The Specialist’s Hat,” 1998; title: Caitlin R. Kiernan, “A Redress for Andromeda,” 2000; title: Michael Chabon, “The God of Dark Laughter,” 2001; title: China Mieville, “Details,” 2002; title: Michael Cisco, “The Genius of Assassins,” 2002; title: Neil Gaiman, “Feeders and Eaters,” 2002; title: Jeff VanderMeer, “The Cage,” 2002; title: Jeffrey Ford, “The Beautiful Gelreesh,” 2003; title: Thomas Ligotti, “The Town Manager,” 2003; title: Brian Evenson, “The Brotherhood of Mutilation,” 2003; title: Mark Samuels, “The White Hands,” 2003; title: Daniel Abraham, “Flat Diana,” 2004; title: Margo Lanagan, “Singing My Sister Down,” 2005 (Australia); title: T.M. Wright, “The People on the Island,” 2005; title: Laird Barron, “The Forest,” 2007; title: Liz Williams, “The Hide,” 2007; title: Reza Negarestani, “The Dust Enforcer,” 2008 (Iran); title: Micaela Morrissette, “The Familiars,” 2009; title: Steve Duffy, “In the Lion’s Den,” 2009; title: Stephen Graham Jones, “Little Lambs,” 2009; title: K.J. Bishop, “Saving the Gleeful Horse,” 2010 (Australia)