The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories

Marc Notes: Originally published: London: Corvus, 2011.; 8; From the old weird to the new weird to the plain weird, a leviathan compendium of dark fantasies and strange stories.. Review Quotes: "What is good about the majority of these stories is precisely that they leave you with many more questions than answers, the mark, in my view, of a superior kind of fiction... It does, in fact, what most of our best fiction does, irrespective of category." --Award-winning author Michael Moorcock, from his introduction "These texts, dead and/or not, burrow, and we cannot predict everything they will infect or eat their path through. But certainly your brain, and they will eat the books you read from today on, too. That is how the Weird recruits." --China Mieville, bestselling and award-winning author of "Embassytown", from his afterword ""The Steampunk Bible "is an informed, informative and beautifully illustrated survey of the subject." "--The Financial Times"Brief Description:"The Weird" is a landmark leviathan-sized anthology of fiction's wilder, stranger, darker shores, featuring an all-star cast of authors, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker prize winners: 110 stories spanning a century and including authors such as William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Mieville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon. Review Quotes: Praise for THE WEIRD: "What is good about the majority of these stories is precisely that they leave you with many more questions than answers, the mark, in my view, of a superior kind of fiction... It does, in fact, what most of our best fiction does, irrespective of category." --Award-winning author Michael Moorcock, from his introduction "These texts, dead and/or not, burrow, and we cannot predict everything they will infect or eat their path through. But certainly your brain, and they will eat the books you read from today on, too. That is how the Weird recruits." --China Mieville, bestselling and award-winning author of "Embassytown", from his afterword "Studded with literary gems, it's a hefty, diligently assembled survey of a genre that manages to be at once unsettling, disorientating and bracing in its variety." --"James Lovegrove, Financial Times ""It's a tremendous experience to go through its 1,126 pages... there are so many delights in this that any reader will find something truly memorable." --"Scotland on Sunday""Readers eager to explore a world beyond the ordinary need look no further." --"Time Out""""An anthology of writing so powerful it will leave your reality utterly shredded... Give yourself to the weird! Hurl your puny mortal body through the portal the VanderMeers have opened for you, join your lord the Mieville on the other side, give your heart and soul to the saints that stand at his feet, to the mad prophets that have prepared you for his coming. Open the pages of the new gospel of The Weird." --"Guardian.co.uk""Unmissable!"" - The Guardian""The definitive collection of weird fiction... its success lies in its ability to lend coherence to a great number of stories that are so remarkable different and yet share the same theme." --"TLS"""Biographical Note:"THE WEIRD "was compiled and edited by Hugo Award-winner Ann VanderMeer and World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer. They have recently co-edited such anthologies as "Best American Fantasy; Best American Fantasy 2"; "Steampunk"; "Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded"; "The New Weird"; "Last Drink Bird Head"; "Fast Ships, Black Sails"; and "The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities." They are the co-authors of "The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals: The Evil Monkey Dialogues." Jeff's latest books include "Finch," a World Fantasy and Nebula Award-finalist; the short story collection "The Third Bear"; the non-fiction collection "Monstrous Creatures"; the coffee table book "The Steampunk Bible "(co-authored with S. J. Chambers); and the writing guide "Booklife." Ann is the editor-in-chief of "Weird Tales "magazine, the oldest fantasy magazine in the world, and is a regular contributor to the popular science fiction and fantasy web-site "io9." Together, they have been profiled by National Public Radio and online at WIRED. com and the "New York Times's Arts Beat "blog. Both active teachers, they have taught at the Clarion and Odyssey writing workshops and the teen summer camp Shared Worlds, where Jeff serves as the assistant director. They live in Tallahassee, Florida, with too many books and four cats. Brief Description: First published: Great Britain: Corvus, 2011. Publisher Marketing: From the old weird to the new weird to the plain weird, a leviathan compendium of dark fantasies and strange stories. Review Citations:

Booklist 04/01/2012 pg. 32 (EAN 9780765333629, Paperback) - *Starred Review

Publishers Weekly 03/19/2012 pg. 70 (EAN 9780765333605, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Booklist 04/01/2012 pg. 32 (EAN 9780765333605, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Library Journal 04/15/2012 pg. 66 (EAN 9780765333605, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/05/2012 pg. 30 (EAN 9780765333605, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  VanderMeer, Ann Hugo Award-winner Ann VanderMeer and World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer have recently coedited such anthologies as Best American Fantasy #1 & 2, Steampunk, Steampunk Reloaded, The New Weird, Last Drink Bird Head, and Fast Ships, Black Sails. They are the coauthors of The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals. Future projects include The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Fictions, for Atlantic. Jeff's latest books are the novel Finch, a World Fantasy Award and Nebula Award finalist; the story collection The Third Bear; the nonfiction collection Monstrous Creatures; the coffee-table book The Steampunk Bible (with S. J. Chambers); and the writing strategy guide Booklife. Ann is the editor in chief of Weird Tales magazine and has a regular art column on the popular SF/fantasy Web site io9. Together, they have been profiled by National Public Radio and the New York Times' Papercuts blog. They are active teachers, and have taught at Clarion San Diego, Odyssey, and the teen writing camp Shared Worlds, for which Jeff serves as the assistant director. They live in Tallahassee, Florida, with too many books and four cats. Contributor Bio:  VanderMeer, Jeff JEFF VANDERMEER is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award. He has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, the International Horror Guild Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His most recent books have made the year's best lists of Publishers Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle and many others. His writing has appeared in various publications, including The New York Times Book Review. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida. WEB: JEFFVANDERMEER. COMFACEBOOK: JEFF VANDERMEERTWITTER: @JEFFVANDERMEERContributor Bio:  Mieville, China J. G. Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930 and lived in England from 1946 until his death in London in 2009. He is the author of nineteen novels, including "Empire of the Sun", "The Drought", and "Crash", with many of them made into major films. Contributor Bio:  Moorcock, Michael Michael Moorcock has published more than seventy novels, and there are more than twenty million copies of his books in print worldwide. Among the major literary prizes Moorcock has received are the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Nebula Award. He and his wife divide their time between homes in London, Texas, and Spain.